Minnetonka Beach Water Tower

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2019.

From the record

One of 192 National Register listings published here for Hennepin County · listed in 2019 · category: Structure.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. 2510 Woodbridge Rd., Minnetonka Beach, 55391
When was it listed? December 2019
Category. structure
City. Village of Minnetonka Beach city
National Register reference number. 100004758 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

3 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Minnetonka Beach Water Tower between 1999 and 2004, burning about 10 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
Arson/incendiarism	1
Recreation and ceremony	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
28 April 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
13 November 1999	Recreation and ceremony	2.0 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
12 October 2000	Arson/incendiarism	7.0 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Hennepin County

Storms near this property

2 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Minnetonka Beach, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports in 2012: 2 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
June 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Minnetonka Beach	-	A tree and power line were blown down on Shoreline Drive.
June 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Minnetonka Beach	-	Several power lines were blown down near Shadywood Road.

Every storm recorded in Hennepin County

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 miles

Other 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Thompson Summer House	0.8 miles	1998
Noerenberg Estate Barn	1.1 miles	2015
Peter Gideon Farmhouse	2.5 miles	1974
MINNEHAHA (steamboat)	2.6 miles	2021
Excelsior Commercial Historic District	2.7 miles	2021
Excelsior Public School	2.8 miles	1980

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100004758 in Record Group 79.
Hennepin County	All 192 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.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.