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Cannomok'e-Pipestone National Monument

Built in 1937. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1966.

From the record

“Pipestone National Monument is a national monument located in southwestern Minnesota, just north of the city of Pipestone. Route 75, Minnesota State Highway 23 and Minnesota State Highway 30, it is home to catlinite rock quarries culturally significant to 23 Native Americans tribal nations of North America.”
Wikipedia article Pipestone National Monument, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 16 National Register listings published here for Pipestone County · listed in 1966 · category: District · built in 1937.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Listed as. Cannomok'e--Pipestone National Monument - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 36 Reservation Ave., Pipestone, 56164
When was it listed? October 1966
Category. district
Also known as. Pipestone County MRA (AD); Pipestone County MRA
Township. Sweet township
When was it built? 1937
National Register reference number. 66000112 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

The ground it stands on

558 words

The chapter on Sweet Township in An Illustrated History of the Counties of Rock and Pipestone, Minnesota, published 1911 names Pipestone. This is what it says, exactly as the scans read.

^iS. U Bailey was elected chairman of the board on the sixth ballot; the bonds of .some of the county officers were approved: the cinnily wa.s divided into two assessment districts; the whole county was created into one township and named Sweet; the motion prevailed that all deeded lands be assessed at $:i.OU per acre board of county commissioners at the second meeting, February 20, 1879. It was mimed by the county board in honor of the county's first settler. Asa Van Allstine, A. O. (Jiay and Samuel Harrison were appointed a board of election to preside over the llrst tnwn uiecfing on the second 'i'uesday in ^larcli, when were chosen the township's first officers. At the ele.tion. wliich \va^ lield in the village of Pipestone JIarch 11. tlic following were chosen the first officei's : 1). I-]. Sweel. chairman; Isaac N. Converse and .lobii Pearson, supervisors; John Stuart,'' clerk; Frank Pork, constable. The township organization was perfected when the board of supervisors met for the first time on March 23.

Passage source: An Illustrated History of the Counties of Rock and Pipestone, Minnesota, published 1911.

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 Sweet Township - 558 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.

Fires near this property

1 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Cannomok'e-Pipestone National Monument in 2017, burning about 40 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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
Smoking	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
28 November 2017	Smoking	40 acres	Pipestone National Monument	PIPESTONE LH40

Every fire recorded in Pipestone County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Cannomok'e-Pipestone National Monument: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Clay. 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
	Pipestone Quarry	Clay	Producer

Every working recorded in Pipestone County

Storms near this property

60 of 70 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pipestone, the town this property stands in, in 70 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 36 hail, 20 thunderstorm wind, 8 flood, 3 flash flood. 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 1997	Hail	Pipestone	$100,000	no account filed
September 2019	Flash Flood	Pipestone	$75,000	Within three hours of the start of heavy rainfall, the river gage on Pipestone Creek at Pipestone rose quickly over flood stage. Several homes on the northeast side of Pipestone were inundated with flood water.
May 2012	Flood	Pipestone	$30,000	Heavy rain caused brief but record flooding of Pipestone Creek. Fields, parkland, and roads were flooded, including the Pipestone County fairgrounds. One street in the city of Pipestone caved in. The creek crested at 5.71 feet above flood stage on May 6th.
June 2011	Lightning	Pipestone	$25,000	Lightning struck an apartment building, starting a fire in the attic which heavily damaged an upstairs apartment. Another upstairs apartment suffered water damage, while two basement apartments were undamaged. Six residents home in the apartments at the time of the lightning strike escaped uninjured.
June 1996	Hail	Pipestone	$10,000	no account filed
May 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Pipestone	$5,000	Thunderstorm winds blew down power lines near state highway 30 just east of the South Dakota state line.
September 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Pipestone	-	Thunderstorm wind gusts blew down a large tree and knocked out power across much of Pipestone. There was not much rain, but a couple minutes of very strong wind.
September 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Pipestone	-	Thunderstorm winds were measured by the Redstone RAWS site RPPM5 1 miles north of Pipestone. Crop damage is an estimate from insured losses. Information provided by the United States Department of Agriculture.
June 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Pipestone	-	RAWS site 216901 (Redstn) 1 mile north northwest of Pipestone measured a peak wind gust of 65 mph.
June 2019	Tornado (EF0)	Pipestone	-	A brief and small landspout occurred in the northwest side of Pipestone, causing minor damage to three buildings. Two metal sheds sustained damage to small sections of roof and door panels. The tornado then crossed a street and hit an apartment building where a 10 foot by 5 foot section of the south facing roof was removed. The average path width was 10 yards.
August 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Pipestone	-	Numerous power outages were reported around Pipestone with tree limbs down.
July 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Pipestone	-	A tree fell onto a car in town.
June 2014	Flood	Pipestone	-	Repeated heavy rains caused brief moderate flooding of Pipestone Creek, with farmland and some roads flooded. The river crested at 2.15 feet above flood stage at Pipestone on June 15th.
June 2013	Flood	Pipestone	-	Heavy rain caused Pipestone Creek to briefly flood on June 23rd, with lowlands including a few rural roads affected. The creek crested at 0.9 foot above flood stage at Pipestone on June 23rd.
May 2012	Flood	Pipestone	-	Heavy rain caused moderate flooding of Pipestone Creek, with flooding of parkland and a few roads. The creek crested at 2.78 feet above flood stage on May 26th.
June 2011	Flood	Pipestone	-	Heavy rain caused moderate flooding of Pipestone Creek, with lowlands along the creek and a few roads affected. The creek crested at 2.5 feet above flood stage at Pipestone on June 14th.
July 2011	Flood	Pipestone	-	Runoff from heavy rain caused minor lowland flooding along Pipestone Creek. The creek crested at 1.2 feet above flood stage at Pipestone on July 11th.
March 2010	Flood	Pipestone	-	Rapid melting of a heavy winter snowpack caused minor flooding of farmland and other lowlands along Pipestone Cree. The creek crested at 1.9 feet above flood stage on March 14th.
September 2010	Flood	Pipestone	-	Heavy rain caused Pipestone Creek to rise quickly above flood stage to a record level. The creek fell quickly also, but some effects of the flooding including standing water continued. The flooding reached some homes and businesses in and near the town of Pipestone, and farmland was flooded.
July 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Pipestone	-	Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including several large trees blown down.
May 2007	Hail	Pipestone	-	Large hail was mostly penny size with a few golf ball size stones.
August 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Pipestone	-	Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including at least two trees blown down.
July 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Pipestone	-	Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including several trees blown down. At least one fallen tree blocked a street. Trees falling on power lines caused a power outage.
May 2004	Flash Flood	Pipestone	-	Rainfall of around 3 inches caused flooding of several roads and basements in Pipestone.
May 2004	Hail	Pipestone	-	Large hail covered the ground and caused significant damage to corn, soybean, and other small grain crops. The amount of damage was unknown, because many of the early stage crops were expected to grow back, and others could be replanted.
May 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Pipestone	-	Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including several trees blown down. The amount of damage was not known.
July 2004	Hail	Pipestone	-	Large hail fell in a swath from west central to south central Pipestone County. Towns affected included Pipestone and Trosky. The hail caused significant crop damage along its path, including stripping the leaves off corn and soybean plants and bruising the stems. A large loss of yield was expected in spite of some expected recovery of damaged crops.
June 2002	Flash Flood	Pipestone	-	Heavy rain caused flooding of county roads and lowlands in the Pipestone area.
May 1993	Thunderstorm Wind	Pipestone	-	Strong thunderstorm winds blew down several trees.
September 2025	Hail	Pipestone	-	no account filed
May 2022	Hail	Pipestone	-	no account filed
July 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Pipestone	-	no account filed
July 2014	Hail	Pipestone	-	no account filed
May 2012	Hail	Pipestone	-	no account filed
April 2011	Hail	Pipestone	-	no account filed
April 2011	Hail	Pipestone	-	no account filed
April 2011	Hail	Pipestone	-	no account filed
July 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Pipestone	-	no account filed
July 2009	Hail	Pipestone	-	no account filed
July 2009	Hail	Pipestone	-	no account filed
August 2009	Hail	Pipestone	-	no account filed
August 2009	Hail	Pipestone	-	no account filed
August 2007	Hail	Pipestone	-	no account filed
August 2007	Hail	Pipestone	-	no account filed
May 2007	Hail	Pipestone	-	no account filed
May 2007	Hail	Pipestone	-	no account filed
May 2007	Hail	Pipestone	-	no account filed
June 2006	Hail	Pipestone	-	no account filed
June 2006	Hail	Pipestone	-	no account filed
June 2006	Hail	Pipestone	-	no account filed
September 2006	Hail	Pipestone	-	no account filed
June 2005	Hail	Pipestone	-	no account filed
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Pipestone	-	no account filed
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Pipestone	-	no account filed
May 2004	Hail	Pipestone	-	no account filed
April 2004	Hail	Pipestone	-	no account filed
June 2003	Hail	Pipestone	-	no account filed
June 2003	Hail	Pipestone	-	no account filed
June 2003	Hail	Pipestone	-	no account filed
June 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Pipestone	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Pipestone 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
Pipestone Indian School Superintendent's House	0.5 miles	1993
Burlington Cedar Rapids and Northern Depot	0.7 miles	1980
Pipestone Commercial Historic District	1.0 miles	1977
Calumet Hotel	1.0 miles	1976
Pipestone Water Tower	1.1 miles	1980
Pipestone Public Library	1.2 miles	1980

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 66000112 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Pipestone County	All 16 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.