BlockFrom the record
One of 192 National Register listings published here for Hennepin County · listed in 2021 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Wayzata Section 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. 738 Lake St. East, Wayzata, 55391
- When was it listed? May 2021
- Category. building
- Also known as. Railroads in Minnesota MPS
- City. Wayzata city
- National Register reference number. 100006584 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
4 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Wayzata Section House between 1999 and 2004, burning about 44 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 were 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 |
|---|---|
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 April 2000 | Arson/incendiarism | 12 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 28 April 2004 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 12 April 2003 | Arson/incendiarism | 30 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 13 November 1999 | Recreation and ceremony | 2.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Mines and quarries near this property
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Wayzata Section House: 1 producer. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hopkins Plant | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this property
5 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wayzata, the town this property stands in, in 5 storm reports between 1997 and 2014: 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. 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 2014 | Flash Flood | Wayzata | - | County officials reported several flooded roads around the cities of Orono and Plymouth. |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wayzata | - | Sixty foot tree toppled across power lines. Power outage occurred in the area for several hours. |
| May 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wayzata | - | One foot diameter tree branches down. One quarter inch hail also reported. |
| May 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wayzata | - | Hundreds of trees blown down. Damage to homes and garages. Estimated windspeed. |
| June 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wayzata | - | Large tree branches down. Estimated windspeed. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Great Northern Railroad Depot | 0.4 miles | 1981 |
 | Charles H. Burwell House | 3.6 miles | 1974 |
| Minnetonka Town Hall (Additional Documentation) | 3.7 miles | 2021 | |
| Minnetonka Beach Water Tower | 4.1 miles | 2019 | |
 | Noerenberg Estate Barn | 4.2 miles | 2015 |
 | Thompson Summer House | 4.8 miles | 1998 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100006584 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.
- 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.
- 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.