Northern Pacific Depot

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.

From the record

“The Northern Pacific Depot in Hinckley, Minnesota, United States, is a wood-framed depot built in 1895, the year after the previous depot was destroyed in the Great Hinckley Fire on September 1, 1894. The depot was built from the plans of the previous depot.”
Wikipedia article Hinckley station (Minnesota), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 22 National Register listings published here for Pine County · listed in 1973 · category: Building.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. Old U.S. 61 and 1st St., SE, Hinckley, 55037
When was it listed? May 1973
Category. building
City. Hinckley city
National Register reference number. 73000992 - 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

176 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 176 fires within 5 miles of Northern Pacific Depot between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,101 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 33 were 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
Debris and open burning	37
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	34
Arson/incendiarism	33
Equipment and vehicle use	31
Railroad operations and maintenance	22
Recreation and ceremony	11
Natural	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Other causes	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
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
9 September 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
8 September 2000	Natural	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
3 September 2013	Recreation and ceremony	2.8 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
3 September 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
23 September 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
23 September 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
3 August 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
3 August 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Pine 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 Northern Pacific Depot: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Sikkink Pit and Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Pine County

Storms near this property

51 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hinckley, the town this property stands in, in 51 storm reports between 1994 and 2022: 29 hail, 18 thunderstorm wind, 3 tornado, 1 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
August 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Hinckley	$2,000	Power lines were blown down.
June 1994	Tornado (F0)	Hinckley	$50	A tornado touched down briefly downing several trees.
May 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Hinckley	-	Wind damage and downed trees at the Holiday gas station in Hinckley. This was near the start of the tornado.
May 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Hinckley	-	Trees were down just north of Hinckley on I-35.
May 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Hinckley	-	Widespread trees and power lines down in Hinckley.
May 2022	Tornado (EF1)	Hinckley	-	Damage sustained to a fast food restaurant in Hinckley, including broken windows, a damaged rooftop HVAC unit, and evidence of metal flashing damage, is believed to be the beginning of a tornado that then tracked across Interstate 35 in a north-northwest direction, crossing the railroad tracks near 7th St NE. The majority of the damage was trees uprooted with several snapped along the way. Aerial imagery provided by the Pine County Sheriffs Department shows fairly weak but convergent tree fall between I-35 and near Highway 61 and Owl Drive between a distinct intensification where the treefall becomes much more extensive and a metal roof section was lifted off a local business. The tornado then tracked across Highway 61 and traversed north causing mainly tree damage with at least one home losing some roof shingles. The end of the tornado path is estimated due to the track moving into a much less wooded wetland area. NWS Duluth sincerely appreciates the drone imagery provided by the Pine County Sheriffs Office to aid in the assessment of this storm damage. Peak winds were estimated to be 95 mph.
August 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Hinckley	-	A photo was received showing a large tree branch down in the city of Hinckley.
August 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Hinckley	-	The gust was reported by the AWOS at the Hinckley Field of Dreams Airport.
July 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Hinckley	-	A few trees were either blown down or their trunks were snapped aloft. The largest tree affected was a 26 inch diameter elm tree snapped 8 feet off the ground.
July 2016	Flash Flood	Hinckley	-	Some low-lying areas of Hinckley had more than 6 of water over the roads, including on a stretch of Dunn Avenue, and near the intersection of 3rd Street and Lawler Avenue.
July 2015	Hail	Hinckley	-	The hail fell at Grand National Golf Course.
July 2015	Hail	Hinckley	-	The hail fell for ten minutes.
July 2015	Hail	Hinckley	-	The hail was observed at Grand Casino.
September 2014	Hail	Hinckley	-	There was pea to quarter size hailstones.
July 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Hinckley	-	Numerous trees were blown down just east of Hinckley.
May 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Hinckley	-	An eight-inch diameter tree top was snapped off.
July 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Hinckley	-	Numerous trees were blown down.
July 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Hinckley	-	Trees and power lines were blown down. Park benches were blown over.
June 2005	Tornado (F1)	Hinckley	-	This tornado traveled through St. Croix State Park. Numerous trees were blown down and uprooted. Fortunately, the tornado missed the camping and swimming areas.
September 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Hinckley	-	Power lines were blown down.
July 2017	Hail	Hinckley	-	no account filed
June 2016	Hail	Hinckley	-	no account filed
June 2016	Hail	Hinckley	-	no account filed
August 2015	Hail	Hinckley	-	no account filed
May 2012	Hail	Hinckley	-	no account filed
May 2009	Hail	Hinckley	-	no account filed
June 2005	Hail	Hinckley	-	no account filed
April 2004	Hail	Hinckley	-	no account filed
April 2004	Hail	Hinckley	-	no account filed
April 2004	Hail	Hinckley	-	no account filed
April 2004	Hail	Hinckley	-	no account filed
July 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Hinckley	-	no account filed
June 2003	Hail	Hinckley	-	no account filed
June 2002	Hail	Hinckley	-	no account filed
July 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Hinckley	-	no account filed
September 2002	Hail	Hinckley	-	no account filed
May 2001	Hail	Hinckley	-	no account filed
May 2001	Hail	Hinckley	-	no account filed
July 2000	Hail	Hinckley	-	no account filed
July 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Hinckley	-	no account filed
August 2000	Hail	Hinckley	-	no account filed
August 2000	Hail	Hinckley	-	no account filed
August 2000	Hail	Hinckley	-	no account filed
July 2000	Hail	Hinckley	-	no account filed
July 2000	Hail	Hinckley	-	no account filed
July 1999	Hail	Hinckley	-	no account filed
June 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Hinckley	-	no account filed
September 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Hinckley	-	no account filed
September 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Hinckley	-	no account filed
May 1994	Hail	Hinckley	-	no account filed
June 1994	Hail	Hinckley	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Pine 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

1 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
	Arnold Schwyzer Summer House and Farmstead	7.8 miles	1980

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 73000992 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Pine County	All 22 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.