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One of 38 National Register listings published here for Brown County · listed in 2017 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
District No. 50 School
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2017.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 20837 US 14, Milford Township, 56073
- When was it listed? January 2017
- Category. building
- Township. Milford township
- National Register reference number. 100000564 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
2 since 2007Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of District No. 50 School between 2007 and 2014, burning about 5 acres in total. None started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Reported cause | Fires |
|---|---|
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 April 2014 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 4.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 2 November 2007 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Mines and quarries near this property
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of District No. 50 School: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reinhart Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Schneider Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Map coverage status
No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.
Listed places nearby
6 within 8 milesOther National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.
| Photograph | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lampert Lumber Company Line Yard | 0.8 miles | 1979 | |
| Way of the Cross, The | 5.7 miles | 2020 | |
| Hermann Monument | 5.9 miles | 1973 | |
| Old Main, Dr. Martin Luther College | 6.0 miles | 1979 | |
 | St. Michael's School and Convent | 6.1 miles | 1979 |
 | Bernard Fesenmaier House | 6.1 miles | 1979 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100000564 in Record Group 79. |
| Brown County | All 38 listed properties in this county. |
Provenance
- Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
- Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
- How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
- Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
- Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.