Finnish Apostolic Lutheran Church of Embarrass

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2023.

From the record

One of 126 National Register listings published here for St. Louis County · listed in 2023 · category: Building.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. 5103 Highway 21, Embarrass, 55732
When was it listed? October 2023
Category. building
Township. Embarrass township
National Register reference number. 100009477 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

91 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 91 fires within 5 miles of Finnish Apostolic Lutheran Church of Embarrass between 1992 and 2020, burning about 461 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 12 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
Debris and open burning	36
Equipment and vehicle use	16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	13
Arson/incendiarism	12
Natural	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Recreation and ceremony	3
Other causes	2
Smoking	2

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
9 September 2007	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
4 September 2005	Natural	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
30 September 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
14 September 2006	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
5 August 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
26 August 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
25 August 2013	Natural	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
8 July 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in St. Louis County

Storms near this property

13 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Embarrass, the town this property stands in, in 13 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 7 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning. 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
May 2022	Hail	Embarrass	$5,000	Damage to vehicles from the hail was reported as well.
August 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Embarrass	-	A tree was down across the road.
May 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Embarrass	-	Several trees and numerous branches were blown down in Embarrass.
August 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Embarrass	-	There were trees down near the intersection of Highway 21/26 and Road 969.
July 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Embarrass	-	Trees and power lines were down.
July 2006	Lightning	Embarrass	-	A barn burned down after being struck by lightning.
April 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Embarrass	-	Trees were damaged and blown down.
May 2020	Hail	Embarrass	-	no account filed
June 2018	Hail	Embarrass	-	no account filed
September 2017	Hail	Embarrass	-	no account filed
July 2006	Hail	Embarrass	-	no account filed
April 2004	Hail	Embarrass	-	no account filed
June 1996	Hail	Embarrass	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in St. Louis 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
Erick and Kristina Nelimark Sauna	1.3 miles	1990
Mike and Mary Matson Historic Farmstead	1.7 miles	1990
Anna and Mikko Pyhala Farm	1.8 miles	2003
Gregorius and Mary Hanka Historic Farmstead	2.2 miles	1990
Elias and Lisi Aho Historic Farmstead	3.5 miles	1990
Height of Land Portage	4.3 miles	1992

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100009477 in Record Group 79.
St. Louis County	All 126 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.