First Presbyterian Church of Oak Grove Cemetery

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014.

From the record

One of 192 National Register listings published here for Hennepin County · listed in 2014 · category: District.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building, 1 site, 1 object as contributing to the listing.
Address. 10340 Lyndale Ave., S., Bloomington, 55420
When was it listed? November 2014
Category. district
City. Bloomington city
National Register reference number. 14000956 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

The ground it stands on

287 words

This property stands in Bloomington City. History of Hennepin County and the City of Minneapolis, Including the Explorers and Pioneers of Minnesota, published 1881 gives that township a chapter of its own.

The chapter covers the township.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Bloomington City - 287 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.

Fires near this property

120 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 120 fires within 5 miles of First Presbyterian Church of Oak Grove Cemetery between 1995 and 2020, burning about 1,548 acres in total. None started naturally. 22 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
Recreation and ceremony	71
Arson/incendiarism	22
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20
Railroad operations and maintenance	4
Fireworks	1
Debris and open burning	1
Other causes	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
25 September 2008	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge	BLACKDOG EAST
24 September 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge	BOARDWALK
26 August 2011	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge	BASS PONDS 3
20 August 2008	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge	IKES
17 August 2005	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge	CLEVELAND
13 August 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge	BLUE WATER
13 August 2004	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge	BLACK DOG 9
1 August 2012	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge	BLACKDOG 1

Every fire recorded in Hennepin County

Mines and quarries near this property

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of First Presbyterian Church of Oak Grove Cemetery: 5 producers, 1 unknown. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Burnsville Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Edina Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Hedberg Pit & Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Kraemer Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Mapco S and G Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Mva Pit & Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Hennepin County

Storms near this property

60 of 76 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bloomington, the town this property stands in, in 76 storm reports between 1993 and 2024: 36 hail, 32 thunderstorm wind, 4 flash flood, 2 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
May 1998	Hail	Bloomington	$450,000,000	Severe damage to automobile dealership. Damage estimate for entire county.
May 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Bloomington	$3,000,000	Thousands of trees down. Several houses received major damage. Estimated windspeed.
June 2001	Lightning	Bloomington	$200,000	Lightning struck an apartment building and ignited a fire.
June 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Bloomington	$100,000	Numerous trees were uprooted across Hennepin County, especially in the southeast part in Bloomington, Minnesota, where a trained spotter measured a peak wind gust of 69 mph.
August 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Bloomington	$1,500	Several large trees were blown down around Bloomington.
September 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Bloomington	$500	A large tree blew down in Bloomington.
August 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Bloomington	-	Delayed report of multiple large trees down throughout Bloomington, time estimated from radar.
May 2022	Hail	Bloomington	-	There were multiple reports of dime to quarter size hail across much of Bloomington.
August 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Bloomington	-	A trained spotter measured a wind gust of 58 knots.
August 2021	Heavy Rain	Bloomington	-	A measured rainfall amount of 1.52 inches occurred with this storm.
August 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Bloomington	-	A large tree was uprooted near the intersection of West 84th Street, and Stanley Avenue South. There was also a measured wind report of 55 mph near the area from a private weather station.
August 2020	Hail	Bloomington	-	Severe hail slowly decreased in size as it moved across Bloomington, with the largest measured hail size of 1.25 inches.
July 2020	Hail	Bloomington	-	A swath of large hail, up to quarter size, fell on the south side of Hennepin County around Bloomington, to Richfield.
June 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Bloomington	-	A few trees and power lines were blown down near West Bush Lake Road and 84th St.
July 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Bloomington	-	A measured wind gust along I-494 in Bloomington.
May 2013	Hail	Bloomington	-	Penny size hail was reported in Bloomington at 95th Street and Garfield.
August 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Bloomington	-	Numerous power lines and large tree branches were blown down in a swath from South Bloomington, south of Old Shakopee Road, to the Minnesota River.
August 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Bloomington	-	Several large tree limbs were blown down near Lyndale Avenue and Interstate 35W.
August 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Bloomington	-	A large pine tree was uprooted near the Mall of America.
August 2013	Hail	Bloomington	-	Quarter size hail fell at the intersection of 105th and Wentworth street.
August 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Bloomington	-	A large tree was blown down at 83rd and Penn Avenue in Bloomington.
August 2013	Hail	Bloomington	-	Hen egg size hail fell at the intersection of Highway 77 and Old Shakopee Road, near the Mall of America.
May 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Bloomington	-	Several large tree limbs were blown down across Bloomington, Minnesota. In addition, numerous wind sensors across the Twin Cities measured wind speeds between 45 and 55 mph.
August 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Bloomington	-	Several large tree branches were blown down in Bloomington, near 92nd and Knox Avenue.
August 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Bloomington	-	A 36-inch diameter tree was toppled near Blaisdell and 96th Street in Bloomington.
June 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Bloomington	-	A large tree was knocked down on Knox Street, between 82nd and American Blvd.
June 2010	Flash Flood	Bloomington	-	Flood waters were high enough to strand several cars east of Old Shakopee Road and France Avenue in Bloomington, Minnesota..
September 2010	Hail	Bloomington	-	Several reports of large hail, up to half dollar size, occurred from Bloomington, to the east side of the International Airport. In addition, the weather observer at the KMSP Airport reported quarter size hail at 12:37 AM CST.
July 2009	Hail	Bloomington	-	Reported near the intersection of Interstates 494 and 35W.
August 2009	Heavy Rain	Bloomington	-	A local trained spotter reported minor flooding along Interstate 494, at Lyndale Avenue with local construction along the interstate. In addition, Normandale service road had ponding of water between Interstate 494 and West 84th Street.
May 2008	Hail	Bloomington	-	Occurred at 82nd Street and Oakland Ave.
May 2008	Hail	Bloomington	-	Hail occurred at 82nd St. and Oakland Ave.
July 2008	Flash Flood	Bloomington	-	Water up to car windows on 98th St. at intersections of both Normandale and France.
July 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Bloomington	-	Two and one half diameter trees toppled. Occurred at 494 and Xerxes Ave.
July 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Bloomington	-	Contruction scaffolding on building toppled at 494 and Xerxes Ave.
July 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Bloomington	-	Several trees toppled. The smallest of these was six inches in diameter. Damage occurred at 98th and old Shakopee Road, through 91st St.
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Bloomington	-	Six to eight inch branches downed at Highway 169 and Old Shakopee Rd.
July 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Bloomington	-	Scattered trees down along 96th St., from Penn Ave. to Cedar Ave.
August 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Bloomington	-	Eight inch diameter trees toppled. Large evergreen trees uprooted.
August 2007	Hail	Bloomington	-	Near I-494 and Highway 100.
August 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Bloomington	-	Building debris on France Ave one mile south of Interstate 494. Numerous reports of 8 to 12 inch diameter tree limbs down. Evergreen tree also uprooted.
July 2007	Hail	Bloomington	-	Reported at intersection of Highways 494 and 77.
April 2006	Hail	Bloomington	-	Dime size hail fell at the intersection of 90th and Penn avenue.
April 2006	Flash Flood	Bloomington	-	One to three inches of rain fell within a 3 hour period across portions of southern Hennepin county. In Bloomington twelve inches of water traversed the road at Knox Avenue and American Boulevard. Interstate 494 was closed for several hours between Cedar and Nicollet avenues due to flooding and drainage problems. Six to twelve inches of water flowed over Penn Ave. near the intersection of Penn and 86th. Twelve inches of water was also reported at the intersection of Portland and Chicago. Water to the top of cars was observed at the intersection of Portland and 100th. In Minneapolis, twelve inches of water flowed over the intersection of Portland and Diamond Lake Road. Flooding also occurred at the intersection of Nicollet Avenue and Diamond Lake Road.
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Bloomington	-	Two large trees up to 1 meter in diameter were broken about ½ mile west of the intersection of 90th and France Ave.
June 2005	Hail	Bloomington	-	Quarter sized hail cracked windshields.
June 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Bloomington	-	Large branches were downed.
June 2002	Hail	Bloomington	-	At Highway 100 and Interstate 494.
June 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Bloomington	-	Hundreds of trees toppled, many onto homes and vehicles.
June 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Bloomington	-	Trees down. Estimated windspeed.
August 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Bloomington	-	Large branches down. Estimated windspeed.
August 1998	Flash Flood	Bloomington	-	6 inches measured at NWS meteorologists home.
July 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Bloomington	-	Large tree branches down. Estimated windspeed.
October 2023	Hail	Bloomington	-	no account filed
April 2022	Hail	Bloomington	-	no account filed
April 2022	Hail	Bloomington	-	no account filed
September 2020	Hail	Bloomington	-	no account filed
July 2020	Hail	Bloomington	-	no account filed
August 2018	Hail	Bloomington	-	no account filed
June 2017	Hail	Bloomington	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Hennepin 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
Gideon H. Pond House	0.9 miles	1970
Long Meadow Bridge	2.6 miles	2013
Riley Lucas Bartholomew House	4.3 miles	1978
Fort Snelling National Cemetery	5.3 miles	2016
Oskam, Hendrik and Marrigje (Marri), House	6.6 miles	2025
Harry W. Jones House	6.6 miles	1976

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 14000956 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.