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One of 27 National Register listings published here for Otter Tail County · listed in 2025 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Ole and Anne Foss House
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2025.
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.
- Listed as. Foss, Ole and Anne, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
- Address. 301 Foss Street North, Underwood, 56586
- When was it listed? January 2025
- Category. building
- City. Underwood city
- National Register reference number. 100011340 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
7 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Ole and Anne Foss House between 1992 and 2005, burning about 409 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 May 1997 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 95 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 7 April 2004 | Debris and open burning | 130 acres | Fergus Falls Wetland Management District | ABC FIRE |
| 5 April 1992 | Equipment and vehicle use | 98 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 22 April 1993 | Arson/incendiarism | 29 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 21 April 1994 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 18 April 1994 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 45 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 16 April 2005 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Mines and quarries near this property
3 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Ole and Anne Foss House: 3 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Peat. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Otter Tail County Peat Bogs | Peat | Producer | Marl | |
| Mark Pit and Mill | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Petersen Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this property
15 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Underwood, the town this property stands in, in 15 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 7 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 funnel cloud. 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 | Thunderstorm Wind | Underwood | $70,000 | Large trees were blown down and a travel trailer was crushed by falling trees on South Turtle Lake. Time estimated based on radar. |
| October 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Underwood | $20,000 | A metal quonset shed was destroyed. |
| July 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Underwood | $500 | A tree was blown down across a road north of Underwood. |
| May 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Underwood | - | Wind gust measured by 33 ft ndawn sensor. |
| June 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Underwood | - | Many large tree branches were blown down and a few trees were toppled by the strong winds. Some small hail also fell along with over three inches of rain. |
| August 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Underwood | - | Trees were blown down and twisted off. Several small sheds or fish houses were blown over and at least one heavily damaged between Wall Lake and Bass Lake. |
| September 2005 | Hail | Underwood | - | Dime to nickel sized hail fell along with two inches of rain. |
| August 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Underwood | - | Trees and branches were blown down around North Turtle Lake. |
| August 2005 | Hail | Underwood | - | The large hail smashed into homes, vehicles, and crops. One nursery was hit particularly hard, with greenhouses, plants, and a number of vehicles damaged. |
| July 1998 | Flash Flood | Underwood | - | 5 1/2 inches of rain flattened many crops and filled ditches around Underwood. |
| September 2018 | Funnel Cloud | Underwood | - | no account filed |
| June 2007 | Hail | Underwood | - | no account filed |
| October 2006 | Hail | Underwood | - | no account filed |
| September 2005 | Hail | Underwood | - | no account filed |
| July 1998 | Hail | Underwood | - | 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
5 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | District No. 182 School | 5.6 miles | 1991 |
| Phelps Mill Historic District | 6.8 miles | 1984 | |
 | Phelps Mill | 6.8 miles | 1975 |
 | Prospect House | 7.3 miles | 2013 |
| First Baptist Church | 7.4 miles | 2025 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100011340 in Record Group 79. |
| Otter Tail County | All 27 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.