Olof Swensson Farmstead

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.

From the record

One of 8 National Register listings published here for Chippewa County · listed in 1974 · category: District.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss, 1 site, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Swensson, Olof, Farmstead - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. Co. Hwys. 15 and 6, Granite Falls, 56241
When was it listed? December 1974
Category. district
Township. Granite Falls township
National Register reference number. 74001010 - 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 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Olof Swensson Farmstead in 2014, burning about 3 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
Debris and open burning	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
8 April 2014	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Chippewa 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 Olof Swensson Farmstead: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Granite, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
	Green Quarry and Mill	Granite, Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working recorded in Chippewa 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

4 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
Julian A. Weaver House	5.5 miles	1986
Maynard State Bank	6.3 miles	2018
Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Depot	7.8 miles	1988
Montevideo Carnegie Library	8.0 miles	1982

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 74001010 in Record Group 79.
Chippewa County	All 8 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.