Photograph of William Warren Two Rivers House Site and Peter McDougall Farmstead — Photograph by McGhiever, CC BY-SA 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Warren, William, Two Rivers House Site and McDougall, Peter, Farmstead

Built in 1847 (vernacular architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.

From the record

“The William Warren Two Rivers House Site and Peter McDougall Farmstead is a historic farmstead near Royalton, Minnesota. The site was built in 1847, and was where William Whipple Warren wrote his recounting of the history of the Ojibwe people, titled History of the Ojibways based upon Traditions and Oral Statements.”
Wikipedia article William Warren Two Rivers House Site and Peter McDougall Farmstead, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 15 National Register listings published here for Morrison County · listed in 1974 · category: Building · built in 1847, vernacular architecture.

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 4 buildingss, 2 sitess, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. CR 231, Royalton, 56373
When was it listed? December 1974
Category. building
Township. Bellevue township
When was it built? 1847
Architectural style. vernacular architecture
National Register reference number. 74001031 - 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

125 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 125 fires within 5 miles of Warren, William, Two Rivers House Site and McDougall, Peter, Farmstead between 1992 and 2020, burning about 408 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 21 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	54
Arson/incendiarism	21
Equipment and vehicle use	15
Railroad operations and maintenance	15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10
Recreation and ceremony	5
Smoking	4
Natural	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 September 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
29 September 2012	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
28 September 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
3 August 2005	Debris and open burning	1.5 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
27 August 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
24 August 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
24 August 2000	Railroad operations and maintenance	1.0 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
24 August 2000	Railroad operations and maintenance	1.0 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Morrison County

Storms near this property

21 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Royalton, the town this property stands in, in 21 storm reports between 1997 and 2024: 11 hail, 8 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 funnel cloud. 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	Royalton	$250,000	Significant straight-line wind damage occurred from near Royalton, east along and near East Nature Road for roughly 13 miles. Damage included a chicken barn roof blown off, shingles off a home, and several large trees uprooted.
May 2016	Hail	Royalton	$500	An automobile windshield was broken due to the hail stones.
August 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Royalton	-	Boat lift bent as well as 12 oak trees down on the property.
March 2017	Hail	Royalton	-	A swath of large hail, up to quarter size, fell east of Royalton, to southwest of Buckman.
May 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Royalton	-	Several small trees, up to 4 inches in diameter, were blown down near Royalton.
June 2007	Hail	Royalton	-	Some crop damage was reported in the area.
July 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Royalton	-	Trees and power lines down.
June 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Royalton	-	Nearly a dozen large trees felled.
July 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Royalton	-	Large branches down. Estimated windspeed.
June 1999	Hail	Royalton	-	Farmer's entire field of corn flattened, ground white as snow from hail. Strong thunderstorm winds combined with wind driven hail to punch holes in house siding. Roof blown off pole building.
June 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Royalton	-	Trees toppled onto power lines.
September 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Royalton	-	Shed destroyed. Roof damage. Estimated windspeed.
September 1997	Tornado (F2)	Royalton	-	Several buildings severely damaged. Numerous trees and power lines down.
September 2021	Hail	Royalton	-	no account filed
August 2021	Hail	Royalton	-	no account filed
March 2017	Hail	Royalton	-	no account filed
May 2004	Hail	Royalton	-	no account filed
May 2004	Funnel Cloud	Royalton	-	no account filed
June 1999	Hail	Royalton	-	no account filed
June 1999	Hail	Royalton	-	no account filed
July 1999	Hail	Royalton	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Morrison 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 record	The nomination case file for reference 74001031 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Morrison County	All 15 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.