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Photograph of Jeffers Petroglyphs
Photograph by Jet Lowe, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Jeffers Petroglyphs Site

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970.

From the record

“The Jeffers Petroglyphs site is an outcrop in southwestern Minnesota with pre-contact Native American petroglyphs. The petroglyphs are pecked into rock of the Red Rock Ridge, a 23-mile (37 km)-long Sioux quartzite outcrop that extends from Watonwan County, Minnesota to Brown County, Minnesota.”

Wikipedia article Jeffers Petroglyphs, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 4 National Register listings published here for Cottonwood County · listed in 1970 · category: Site.

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

The listing

  • Address. Off Co. Hwy. 2, Jeffers, 56019
  • When was it listed? October 1970
  • Category. site
  • Township. Delton township
  • National Register reference number. 70000291 - 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.

Fires near this property

1 since 2020

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Jeffers Petroglyphs Site in 2020, burning about 38 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
Arson/incendiarism1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
7 May 2020Arson/incendiarism38 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Every fire recorded in Cottonwood County

Storms near this property

41 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Jeffers, the town this property stands in, in 41 storm reports between 1997 and 2022: 21 thunderstorm wind, 16 hail, 3 tornado, 1 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2000Tornado (F1)Jeffers$100,000A tornado destroyed a barn and damaged other farm buildings. The tornado also caused crop damage, but the amount of crop damage was not determined.
July 1998Thunderstorm WindJeffers$50,000no account filed
June 2008Tornado (EF0)Jeffers$5,000A tornado damaged outbuildings and caused tree damage.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindJeffers-A thunderstorm wind gust of 62 mph was measured by Minnesota Road Weather Information System site MN070 4 miles east-northeast of Jeffers.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindJeffers-A thunderstorm wind gust of 74 mph was measured by Minnesota Road Weather Information System site MN070 4 miles east-northeast of Jeffers.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindJeffers-Numerous 8 to 10 inch limbs downed by thunderstorm winds.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindJeffers-Numerous tree limbs were downed by thunderstorm winds.
August 2021Tornado (EFU)Jeffers-A tornado developed 5 miles north of Jeffers along 430th Avenue, one-quarter mile north of County Road 10. The tornado caused damage to crops as it moved north-northeast over open farmland. Sentinel satellite imagery revealed a possible brief lift around 230th Street. The tornado dissipated along 440th Avenue, one-half mile south of 210th St. The average path width was 20 yards.
September 2021Thunderstorm WindJeffers-Crops were blown over by strong thunderstorm wind gusts.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindJeffers-Thunderstorm winds snapped a large tree, from one to two feet in diameter, in half.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindJeffers-A narrow path of crop damage, possibly related to a miso vortex within a broader wind field, was identified using Sentinel satellite imagery.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindJeffers-A narrow path of crop damage, possibly related to a miso vortex within a broader wind field, was identified using Sentinel satellite imagery.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindJeffers-A narrow path of crop damage, possibly related to a miso vortex within a broader wind field, was identified using Sentinel satellite imagery.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindJeffers-A narrow path of crop damage, possibly related to a miso vortex within a broader wind field, was identified using Sentinel satellite imagery.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindJeffers-Minnesota RWIS station MN071 4 miles east northeast of Jeffers measured a peak wind gust of 62 mph.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindJeffers-Measured at Minnesota Department of Transportation's RWIS.
May 2013Heavy RainJeffers-Rainfall of 2.20 inches was measured in one hour.
August 2013HailJeffers-Large hail covered the ground.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindJeffers-Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including several branches blown down.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindJeffers-Thunderstorm winds caused minor tree damage.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindJeffers-Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including branches blown down.
September 2010Thunderstorm WindJeffers-Thunderstorm winds caused minor tree damage. The winds were accompanied by quarter size hail.
September 2010HailJeffers-Large hail was accompanied by estimated 60 mph wind gusts.
June 2003HailJeffers-Large hail severely damaged crops in the area, particularly corn, with bruising of stalks being the main damage. The hail also dented some vehicles. The amount of damage was not known.
August 2002Thunderstorm WindJeffers-A thunderstorm wind gust was recorded by automated RWIS (road weather information system) equipment.
September 2001Thunderstorm WindJeffers-Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage.
July 2020HailJeffers-no account filed
June 2019Thunderstorm WindJeffers-no account filed
August 2017HailJeffers-no account filed
September 2015HailJeffers-no account filed
May 2013HailJeffers-no account filed
June 2010HailJeffers-no account filed
June 2009Thunderstorm WindJeffers-no account filed
July 2006HailJeffers-no account filed
June 2005HailJeffers-no account filed
June 2005HailJeffers-no account filed
July 2003HailJeffers-no account filed
July 2002HailJeffers-no account filed
May 2000HailJeffers-no account filed
July 2000HailJeffers-no account filed
June 1997HailJeffers-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Cottonwood 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 70000291 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Cottonwood CountyAll 4 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.