Traverse des Sioux

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.

From the record

“Traverse des Sioux is a historic site in the U.S. state of Minnesota. Once part of a pre-industrial trade route, it is preserved to commemorate that route, a busy river crossing on it, and a nineteenth-century settlement, trading post, and mission at that crossing place.”
Wikipedia article Traverse des Sioux, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 24 National Register listings published here for Nicollet County · listed in 1973 · category: Site.

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

The listing

Address. 2 mi. N of St. Peter off U.S. 169, St. Peter, 56082
When was it listed? March 1973
Category. site
City. St. Peter city
National Register reference number. 73000990 - 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 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Traverse des Sioux in 1996, burning about 290 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/incendiarism	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
3 November 1996	Arson/incendiarism	290 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Nicollet County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 14 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Traverse des Sioux: 14 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Silica. 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	Recorded
Gopher State Sandstone Mill	Silica	Producer
Gopher State Silica Pit	Silica	Producer	Sandstone
Ed Swarthout Inc	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Ed Swarthout Inc	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Gopher State Sandstone Quarry No 2	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Gopher State Sandstone Quarry No1	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Lundin Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Blue Earth Co Sand & Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Brown Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Johnson Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

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

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
Eugene Saint Julien Cox House	1.5 miles	1970
John A. Johnson House	1.5 miles	1983
Emily and Stephen Schumacher House	1.7 miles	2000
Church of the Holy Communion-Episcopal	1.8 miles	1983
Nicollet House Hotel	1.9 miles	1975
Nicollet County Bank	1.9 miles	1983

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 73000990 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.
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.