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One of 13 National Register listings published here for Nobles County · listed in 2015 · category: Structure.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Worthington Band Shell
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 418 Lake Ave., Worthington, 56187
- When was it listed? July 2015
- Category. structure
- Also known as. Federal Relief Construction in Minnesota, 1933-1943 MPS; Federal Relief Construction in Minnesota, 1933-1943 MPS
- City. Worthington city
- National Register reference number. 15000439 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Storms near this property
53 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Worthington, the town this property stands in, in 53 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 24 hail, 18 thunderstorm wind, 7 flash flood, 2 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 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Worthington | $1,000,000 | Thunderstorm winds blew parts of the roofs off a junior high school building and an apartment building, and overturned a semi truck. The winds caused widespread tree damage, including several large trees uprooted or blown down. Tree debris blocked several roads, and made the golf course at the country club unusable. Power lines were blown down and other lines were knocked down by falling tree debris, causing power outages. Tree debris also damaged several vehicles and buildings. At least one garage was destroyed by the winds. Several signs, including large billboards, were blown down. The winds damaged crops, especially corn, but the amount of crop damage could not be determined. |
| August 1994 | Tornado (F1) | Worthington | $500,000 | Several buildings on two farmsteads were destroyed. A number of hogs were killed and trees and power lines were blown down. |
| July 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Worthington | $300,000 | Thunderstorm winds of unknown speed caused widespread tree damage, blew down a 50 thousand bushel steel grain bin, destroyed a barn and a hog building, and blew over two tractor-semitrailers. The winds also caused undetermined crop damage. |
| August 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Worthington | $50,000 | Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including several trees blown down. One tree fell through the roof and top two floors of a home. |
| July 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Worthington | $10,000 | Thunderstorm winds blew a semi off Interstate 90, and also caused tree damage, including several trees blown down. |
| June 2020 | Flash Flood | Worthington | $5,000 | One vehicle became stalled in high water, with six reports of street flooding in the city. Property damage costs are rough estimates. |
| May 2003 | Lightning | Worthington | $5,000 | Lightning struck a large tree, destroying the tree. The lightning also damaged appliances in at least two homes, and caused a power outage over a small area. |
| July 2001 | Lightning | Worthington | $2,000 | Lightning struck and split a large tree. Most of the tree fell and damaged siding on a house, but just missed a parked car. |
| May 2022 | Hail | Worthington | - | Hail was mostly pea-sized, but a few stones were as large as quarters. Crop damage is an estimate from insured losses. Information provided by the United States Department of Agriculture. |
| May 2022 | Hail | Worthington | - | Hail varied between quarter and golf ball size. |
| August 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Worthington | - | A large tree was blown down across a road by thunderstorm winds. |
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Worthington | - | Wind gusts broke off a small tree. |
| June 2020 | Flash Flood | Worthington | - | Up to two feet of water was reported over Marine Avenue near the high school. |
| October 2020 | Hail | Worthington | - | Hail up to quarter size fell for about 10 seconds. Crop damage is an estimate from insured losses. Information provided by the United States Department of Agriculture. |
| May 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Worthington | - | Measured at the airport in Worthington, MN. |
| June 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Worthington | - | Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including several large limbs blown down. |
| October 2013 | Hail | Worthington | - | Large hail damaged vehicles. The amount of damage was not known. |
| May 2012 | Tornado (EF0) | Worthington | - | A brief tornado caused no reported damage. |
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Worthington | - | Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including several trees blown down. |
| May 2009 | Hail | Worthington | - | Large hail covered the ground. |
| July 2009 | Hail | Worthington | - | Large hail dented vehicles and cracked windshields. The amount of damage was not known. |
| April 2006 | Flash Flood | Worthington | - | Heavy rainfall of 2 to 4 inches caused flooding of roads, basements, and other low areas as storm sewers backed up. Several vehicles stalled on flooded roads. |
| June 2005 | Flash Flood | Worthington | - | Heavy rain caused flooding of several streets, with water 3 feet deep at one intersection. |
| September 2005 | Flash Flood | Worthington | - | Heavy rain caused widespread street flooding, with basement flooding also reported. Water was two to three feet deep on some roads, and numerous vehicles stalled. |
| May 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Worthington | - | Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage. The amount of damage was not known. |
| August 2004 | Flash Flood | Worthington | - | Heavy rain caused flooding of streets and other low areas with roads up to three feet under water. |
| August 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Worthington | - | A Thunderstorm wind gust was measured by automatic RWIS (road weather information system) equipment. |
| August 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Worthington | - | Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage. Numerous limbs were down, some on cars and houses. Some trees on the east side of town were uprooted. |
| June 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Worthington | - | Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage. |
| June 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Worthington | - | Thunderstorm winds tore the roof and most of the outside walls off a 40 by 108 foot feeder pig barn. |
| June 2001 | Flash Flood | Worthington | - | Flash flooding resulting from very heavy rain flooded streets, small streams, culverts, and other low places. Some flooding of basements also occurred. |
| July 1995 | Hail | Worthington | - | Hail caused considerable crop damage with about 10,000 acres of corn and soybeans affected. |
| August 2025 | Hail | Worthington | - | no account filed |
| August 2022 | Hail | Worthington | - | no account filed |
| April 2021 | Hail | Worthington | - | no account filed |
| September 2019 | Hail | Worthington | - | no account filed |
| September 2019 | Hail | Worthington | - | no account filed |
| September 2015 | Hail | Worthington | - | no account filed |
| October 2013 | Hail | Worthington | - | no account filed |
| September 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Worthington | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Worthington | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Worthington | - | no account filed |
| July 2002 | Hail | Worthington | - | no account filed |
| July 2002 | Hail | Worthington | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Worthington | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Worthington | - | no account filed |
| April 2000 | Hail | Worthington | - | no account filed |
| July 2000 | Hail | Worthington | - | no account filed |
| July 2000 | Hail | Worthington | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Worthington | - | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Worthington | - | no account filed |
| June 1994 | Hail | Worthington | - | no account filed |
| June 1994 | Hail | Worthington | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Dr. E. A. Kilbride Clinic | 0.4 miles | 1977 |
 | Citizens' National Bank | 0.5 miles | 1982 |
 | Hotel Thompson | 0.5 miles | 1984 |
| Worthington Armory and Community Building | 0.5 miles | 2017 | |
| Nobles County War Memorial Building | 0.6 miles | 2017 | |
 | George D. Dayton House | 0.7 miles | 2003 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 15000439 in Record Group 79. |
| Nobles County | All 13 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.
- 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.