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One of 8 National Register listings published here for Martin County · listed in 2021 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Sherburn Community 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.
- Still standing. The Park Service records this property as extant.
- Address. 116 North Main St., Sherburn, 56171
- When was it listed? October 2021
- Category. building
- Also known as. Federal Relief Construction in Minnesota, 1933-1943 MPS (AD); Federal Relief Construction in Minnesota, 1933-1943 MPS
- City. Sherburn city
- National Register reference number. 100007072 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
3 since 2007Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Sherburn Community Building between 2007 and 2013, burning about 100 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 |
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 2013 | Arson/incendiarism | 5.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 18 April 2007 | Arson/incendiarism | 50 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 23 October 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 45 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Storms near this property
24 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sherburn, the town this property stands in, in 24 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 13 hail, 8 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 heavy rain. 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 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sherburn | $50,000 | A tree was uprooted and fell onto a car and building causing significant damage in Sherburn. |
| August 2025 | Flash Flood | Sherburn | - | The Emergency Manager reported flooding in Dunnell with several homes having water up to 4 inches deep in basements. There was damage a waste water facility as well. Several gravel roads were damaged including in Jay Township and Lake Fremont Township. |
| July 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sherburn | - | A large tree was blown down at 261st and County Road 5 in Sherburn, Minnesota. |
| August 2007 | Flash Flood | Sherburn | - | Significant street flooding was reported across much of the city. |
| June 2005 | Hail | Sherburn | - | Golf ball sized hail fell at the intersection of Interstate 90 and County Road 7. |
| April 2004 | Hail | Sherburn | - | A handful of gutters and cars were dented. |
| April 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sherburn | - | A few tree limbs were downed. |
| August 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sherburn | - | A wind gust of 60 MPH was reported by law enforcement. A wind gust of 55 MPH was measured by a spotter in town where tree branches were downed. |
| August 2004 | Heavy Rain | Sherburn | - | Streets and basements were flooded by an estimated 3 to 4 inches of rain. |
| June 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sherburn | - | Measured by Skywarn spotter. |
| May 2024 | Hail | Sherburn | - | no account filed |
| April 2022 | Hail | Sherburn | - | no account filed |
| May 2012 | Hail | Sherburn | - | no account filed |
| May 2012 | Hail | Sherburn | - | no account filed |
| May 2011 | Hail | Sherburn | - | no account filed |
| April 2010 | Hail | Sherburn | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Sherburn | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Sherburn | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Sherburn | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Sherburn | - | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Hail | Sherburn | - | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sherburn | - | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sherburn | - | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sherburn | - | 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
1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sherburn Commercial Historic District | under 500 feet | 1987 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100007072 in Record Group 79. |
| Martin County | All 8 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.