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One of 192 National Register listings published here for Hennepin County · listed in 2025 · category: District.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Graeser Roadside Parking Area
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2025.
The listing
- Address. northwestern side of TH 100 between W. Broadway Avenue (CR 8) and Bottineau Boulevard (CSAH 81), Robbinsdale, 55422
- When was it listed? December 2025
- Category. district
- Also known as. Federal Relief Construction in Minnesota, 1933-1943 MPS
- City. Robbinsdale city
- National Register reference number. 100012382 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
8 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Graeser Roadside Parking Area between 1999 and 2012, burning about 89 acres in total. None started naturally. 6 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 | 6 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17 August 2003 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 4 May 2001 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 3 May 1999 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 1.5 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 3 May 1999 | Arson/incendiarism | 3.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 8 April 2000 | Arson/incendiarism | 12 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 4 April 2012 | Arson/incendiarism | 60 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 28 April 2000 | Arson/incendiarism | 10 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 22 October 2000 | Arson/incendiarism | 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 Graeser Roadside Parking Area: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Silica, Bentonite. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| North Central Aggregate Pit | Bentonite | Producer | ||
| Minn Silica Sand Pit | Silica | Past Producer | ||
| Minnesota Silica Sand Pit | Silica | Producer | Sandstone |
Storms near this property
21 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Robbinsdale, the town this property stands in, in 21 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 10 hail, 9 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 tornado. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2020 | Tornado (EF0) | Robbinsdale | $250,000 | An NWS Survey indicated a brief EF-0 tornado that moved across the City of Crystal, Minnesota. The tornado started near Memory Lane Park, between 43rd and 44th Avenue North and Jersey Avenue North. A large tree was uprooted at this location. This tornado moved eastward between 43rd and 44th Avenue and damaged several large trees, up to 4 feet in diameter, along its path. The tornado lifted near Douglas Drive North. Some roof damage occurred, but the majority of the trees and large limbs fell on power lines, roads, and yards. ||There was also damage on 45th Avenue North, but the damage was consistent with downburst winds and more sporadic. The majority of the damage in the broad area of New Hope, Crystal, North Minneapolis, and Robbinsdale was from downburst winds. |
| July 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Robbinsdale | $250,000 | A large bow echo surged across eastern Hennepin County causing numerous downed trees and power lines. Some of the trees were 12 inches in diameter. There were also several measured reports of severe wind gusts from private weather stations in Hennepin County. One measured wind gust was 58 knots. In addition, the Spirit of the Lakes Festival had shelters and tents blown down. The Spring Park City Hall had a tree blown down. At one point, 33,000 Xcel Energy customers were out of power in Hennepin County. |
| May 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Robbinsdale | $10,000 | Numerous trees were blown down in the city of Crystal. |
| June 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Robbinsdale | - | Thunderstorm wind gust estimated at 60 mph downed a tree between Crystal and Robbinsdale. |
| June 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Robbinsdale | - | Thunderstorm wind gust estimated at 60 mph downed blue ash tree onto a two story home just east of Noble Elementary School. |
| July 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Robbinsdale | - | Large trees between 12-24 inches in diameter down. |
| August 2020 | Hail | Robbinsdale | - | There was likely larger hail to the west and north of Robbinsdale as local radar had higher returns in this area. |
| August 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Robbinsdale | - | There was a large swath of downburst, or straight-line wind damage between the City of Crystal (west of Highway 100), eastward to Interstate 94 between Dowling and 49th Avenue North. Some of the trees landed on homes and damaged roofs and cars. |
| July 2019 | Flash Flood | Robbinsdale | - | Local officials closed 42nd Avenue in New Hope due to flooding. |
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Robbinsdale | - | A 10 inch diameter tree was blown down in Robbinsdale. |
| August 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Robbinsdale | - | Several large tree branches were blown down in southern Robbinsdale, near Grimes Pond. |
| June 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Robbinsdale | - | A 12 inch diameter tree was blown down in New Hope. |
| May 2008 | Hail | Robbinsdale | - | Occurred at 36th and Highway 169. |
| June 2005 | Hail | Robbinsdale | - | Quarter sized hail fell at North Memorial Hospital. |
| August 2023 | Hail | Robbinsdale | - | no account filed |
| August 2019 | Hail | Robbinsdale | - | no account filed |
| May 2015 | Hail | Robbinsdale | - | no account filed |
| May 2015 | Hail | Robbinsdale | - | no account filed |
| September 2015 | Hail | Robbinsdale | - | no account filed |
| April 2012 | Hail | Robbinsdale | - | no account filed |
| July 1995 | Hail | Robbinsdale | - | 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
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Hennepin County Library | 0.4 miles | 1978 |
 | Lawrence A. and Mary Fournier House | 2.1 miles | 1995 |
 | Fredrika Bremer Intermediate School | 2.9 miles | 1978 |
| St. Olafs Norwegian Lutheran Church | 3.1 miles | 2022 | |
 | Minneapolis Public Library, North Branch | 3.6 miles | 1977 |
 | John Lohmar House | 3.9 miles | 1977 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100012382 in Record Group 79. |
| Hennepin County | All 192 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.