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One of 40 National Register listings published here for Dakota County · listed in 2021 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Farmers Union Central Exchange Second Headquarters Building
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. 1185 Concord St. North, South St. Paul, 55075
- When was it listed? May 2021
- Category. building
- City. South St. Paul city
- National Register reference number. 100006585 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
3 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Farmers Union Central Exchange Second Headquarters Building between 1996 and 2020, burning about 2 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 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13 September 1996 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 1 April 2020 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.2 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | SAND DUNES |
| 21 October 2000 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Mines and quarries near this property
7 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Farmers Union Central Exchange Second Headquarters Building: 4 producers, 1 occurrence, 1 plant, 1 past producer. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Sulfur, Kaolin. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| (Facility) Northwestern Refinery | Sulfur | Plant | ||
| Twin City Brick Co. Clay Pit | Kaolin | Producer | Kaolinite | |
| Dakota County Clay Deposit | Clay | Occurrence | ||
| Twin City Brick Co Pit | Clay | Past Producer | ||
| Pine Bend Pit & Mill | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Standard Pit & Mill | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Standard Sand & Gravel 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Luther Memorial Church | 1.0 miles | 2025 | |
 | St. Stefan's Romanian Orthodox Church | 1.1 miles | 2004 |
 | George W. Wentworth House | 1.3 miles | 1979 |
 | Stockyards Exchange | 1.5 miles | 1979 |
 | Serbian Home | 1.8 miles | 1992 |
 | Henry H. Sibley House | 5.8 miles | 1972 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100006585 in Record Group 79. |
| Dakota County | All 40 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.