BlockFrom the record
One of 9 National Register listings published here for Renville County · listed in 2021 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Tinnes-Baker House
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2021.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 801 Highway Ave., Bird Island, 55310
- When was it listed? April 2021
- Category. building
- Township. Bird Island township
- National Register reference number. 100006437 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
The ground it stands on
8,051 wordsThe chapter on Bird Island Township in The History of Renville County, Minnesota, published 1916 names Bird Island. This is what it says, exactly as the scans read.
Bird Island township embraces township 115-34. It is bounded on the north by Kingman township, on the east by Melville township, mi the south by Norfolk township and on the west by Troy township. The villages of Bird Island and Olivia are within its boundaries.
Passage source: The History of Renville County, Minnesota, published 1916.
A typical pioneer letter, written more than forty years ago by Joseph S. Bowler, gives a splendid picture of Bird Island life in the early days. The letter was written by Joseph S. Bowler, at Bird Island, July 6, 1S73. to his sister. Georgetta, then living at Lee, Maine.
Passage source: The History of Renville County, Minnesota, published 1916.
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.
Read the whole chapter on Bird Island Township - 8,051 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.
Storms near this property
25 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bird Island, the town this property stands in, in 25 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 11 thunderstorm wind, 8 hail, 4 heavy rain, 1 tornado. The reports record 1 injury. 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 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bird Island | 1 hurt | A children's playhouse was lifted and blown some distance, where it landed on a truck being driven along Highway 212. One man was slightly injured when some of the smashed glass landed in his eye. |
| June 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bird Island | $100,000 | A Bird Island grain elevator sustained damage, along with several trees blown down around Bird Island. |
| August 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bird Island | $2,000 | Several trees and large tree branches were blown down in Bird Island. One of the branches landed on a home and damaged it. |
| June 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bird Island | - | Thunderstorm winds downed powerlines on Hwy 5 south of Bird Island. |
| July 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bird Island | - | Trees were down in Melville Township, near the intersection of Co Rd 3/Hwy 212. |
| July 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bird Island | - | A power pole was snapped. |
| June 2020 | Heavy Rain | Bird Island | - | A trained spotter measured 7.56 inches of rainfall south of Bird Island, in less than 12 hours. |
| July 2020 | Hail | Bird Island | - | There was a swath of large hail, up to 2 inches in diameter, including wind driven hail, that occurred along the Kandiyohi/Renville County line, southwest to the Renville/Sibley County line between Buffalo Lake and Stewart. Local farmers had major damage to their corn and soybean fields. |
| July 2019 | Heavy Rain | Bird Island | - | There was a measured rainfall report of 4.14 inches south of Bird Island. |
| August 2016 | Heavy Rain | Bird Island | - | A trained spotter measured 5.12 inches of rain south of Bird Island. |
| August 2016 | Heavy Rain | Bird Island | - | A trained spotter measured 7.12 inches of rain northeast of Bird Island. |
| June 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bird Island | - | Several trees were blown down in Bird Island. |
| August 2009 | Hail | Bird Island | - | A local storm chaser and a trained spotter reported golf ball to baseball size hail covering the ground. |
| July 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bird Island | - | A few trees down. |
| September 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bird Island | - | Trees and power lines downed. |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bird Island | - | Power lines were downed. |
| October 1997 | Hail | Bird Island | - | Large branches also blown down. Roof taken off out building. |
| October 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bird Island | - | Barn collapse killed over 100 pigs. |
| July 2020 | Hail | Bird Island | - | no account filed |
| July 2016 | Hail | Bird Island | - | no account filed |
| April 2002 | Hail | Bird Island | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Hail | Bird Island | - | no account filed |
| July 2000 | Funnel Cloud | Bird Island | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Bird Island | - | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Tornado (F0) | Bird Island | - | no account filed |
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
2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Renville County Courthouse and Jail | 1.3 miles | 1986 |
 | Heins Block | 4.6 miles | 2001 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100006437 in Record Group 79. |
| Renville County | All 9 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.
- 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.