Fort Ridgely

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970.

From the record

“Fort Ridgely was a frontier United States Army outpost from 1851 to 1867, built 1853-1854 in Minnesota Territory. It was located overlooking the Minnesota River southwest of Fairfax, Minnesota.”
Wikipedia article Fort Ridgely, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 24 National Register listings published here for Nicollet County · listed in 1970 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. SR 4, Fairfax, 55332
When was it listed? December 1970
Category. district
Township. Ridgely township
National Register reference number. 70000304 - 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.

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Fort Ridgely: 2 occurrences, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Marlowe Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Brown County Clay Deposit No 1	Clay	Occurrence
Brown County Clay Deposit No 2	Clay	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Nicollet 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

2 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.

Photograph	Property	Distance	Listed
	Fort Ridgely State Park CCC/Rustic Style Historic Resources	0.3 miles	1989
	Alexander Harkin Store	7.9 miles	1973

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 70000304 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Nicollet County	All 24 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.
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.