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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
First Baptist Church
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.
- Address. 101 West Summit Street, Battle Lake, 56515
- When was it listed? April 2025
- Category. building
- City. Battle Lake city
- National Register reference number. 100011725 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
5 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of First Baptist Church between 1992 and 2010, burning about 132 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 | 2 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 April 1992 | Smoking | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 5 April 1992 | Equipment and vehicle use | 98 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 5 April 1992 | Debris and open burning | 2.5 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 3 April 2010 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 22 April 1993 | Arson/incendiarism | 29 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Storms near this property
35 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Battle Lake, the town this property stands in, in 35 storm reports between 1995 and 2022: 16 hail, 16 thunderstorm wind, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Battle Lake | $5,000 | A large tree branch was blown over onto a garage. |
| July 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Battle Lake | $3,000 | Trees were blown down and boats blown off lifts. |
| July 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Battle Lake | $1,000 | Numerous trees were blown down, several falling on garages. |
| July 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Battle Lake | $1,000 | Numerous large trees were downed. |
| May 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Battle Lake | - | Peak wind measured at a personal weather station near South Turtle Lake before the station lost power. |
| May 2022 | Tornado (EF1) | Battle Lake | - | This tornado began about 2 miles west southwest of Battle Lake, MN and tracked to the north until 7:34 pm where it lifted 2 miles north northeast of Battle Lake, MN. One single-wide trailer was flipped. Numerous spruce, poplar, and ash trees were snapped or uprooted. Metal roofing was blown off of storage near the airport. Peak winds were estimated at 100 mph, giving this tornado an EF1 rating, with a path length of 3.5 miles. A couple of power poles were also damaged along the path. |
| July 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Battle Lake | - | Large tree branches were blown down around town. |
| July 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Battle Lake | - | A pine tree was snapped and numerous large branches were blown down around town. |
| August 2018 | Hail | Battle Lake | - | The hail fell at the Fiske Lake public access. |
| September 2016 | Hail | Battle Lake | - | Pea to dime sized hail was reported. |
| September 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Battle Lake | - | A truck was blown off highway 210 near Battle Lake. |
| June 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Battle Lake | - | Numerous boats, boat lifts, and docks were blown onshore due to strong winds and wave action on Battle Lake. |
| July 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Battle Lake | - | Several trees were blown down. |
| June 2006 | Funnel Cloud | Battle Lake | - | A persistent wall cloud with funnel was reported between Battle Lake and Clitheral. |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Battle Lake | - | A metal storage shed was blown apart and lifted into some nearby power lines. |
| August 2005 | Flash Flood | Battle Lake | - | 4 to 5 inches of rain fell, quickly flooding some roads in Battle Lake. |
| August 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Battle Lake | - | Power outages occurred as a result of widespread tree damage and downed power lines. This was part of intermittent downburst wind damage from Rothsay to near Parkers Prairie. |
| August 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Battle Lake | - | Trees were blown over on the west shore of West Battle Lake. |
| August 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Battle Lake | - | Many trees were blown down at Glendalough State Park. Trees fell on roads and on a canoe rack loaded with canoes. The park closed for about 4 days for cleanup. Trees fell on tents at two different camp sites, although no injuries were reported. |
| August 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Battle Lake | - | Strong winds ripped the roof off a building and sent debris about a half-mile downwind. |
| June 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Battle Lake | - | High wind downed tree limbs and tossed boats around. |
| June 2022 | Hail | Battle Lake | - | no account filed |
| August 2018 | Hail | Battle Lake | - | no account filed |
| September 2007 | Hail | Battle Lake | - | no account filed |
| April 2003 | Hail | Battle Lake | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Battle Lake | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Battle Lake | - | no account filed |
| August 2001 | Hail | Battle Lake | - | no account filed |
| July 2000 | Hail | Battle Lake | - | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Hail | Battle Lake | - | no account filed |
| July 1998 | Hail | Battle Lake | - | no account filed |
| July 1998 | Hail | Battle Lake | - | no account filed |
| July 1998 | Hail | Battle Lake | - | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Hail | Battle Lake | - | no account filed |
| August 1995 | Hail | Battle Lake | - | 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
3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Prospect House | 0.5 miles | 2013 |
 | Craigie Flour Mill Historical Marker | 7.1 miles | 2003 |
| Ole and Anne Foss House | 7.4 miles | 2025 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100011725 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.
- 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.