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Tunnel Mill

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.

From the record

One of 36 National Register listings published here for Fillmore County · listed in 1975 · category: Building.

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

The listing

  • Address. Off Co. Hwy. 1, Spring Valley, 55975
  • When was it listed? May 1975
  • Category. building
  • Township. Sumner township
  • National Register reference number. 75000978 - 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

11 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Tunnel Mill between 1996 and 2020, burning about 4 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
Equipment and vehicle use6
Smoking2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Fireworks1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
4 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 August 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 July 2020Fireworksunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 July 2001Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
25 April 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 April 1996Smoking3.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
20 April 2007Smokingunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 April 2004Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Every fire recorded in Fillmore County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Tunnel Mill: 8 past producers, 2 prospects, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Chester Pit #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Blahniks Quarry and MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Bly Quarry & MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Allen MineIronPast Producer
Brehmer MineIronPast Producer
E Walterman Reserve MineIronProspect
Eisenman MineIronPast Producer
Engel MineIronPast Producer
Fillmore County District MinesIronPast ProducerWEATHERING RESIDUAL
Finley MineIronPast Producer

Every working recorded in Fillmore County

Storms near this property

8 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Spring Valley, the town this property stands in, in 8 storm reports between 1994 and 1997: 4 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 1997Thunderstorm WindSpring Valley$6,000no account filed
June 1997Thunderstorm WindSpring Valley$1,000no account filed
July 1994HailSpring Valley$500no account filed
July 1997Funnel CloudSpring Valley-no account filed
August 1997HailSpring Valley-no account filed
June 1997HailSpring Valley-no account filed
June 1997Thunderstorm WindSpring Valley-no account filed
June 1997Thunderstorm WindSpring Valley-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Fillmore 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
William Strong House5.1 miles1982
Ephraim Steffens House5.2 miles1982
Bridge No. 57225.4 miles2011
Spring Valley Methodist Episcopal Church5.4 miles1975
Parsons Block and Hall5.4 miles1982
Spring Valley Carnegie Library5.5 miles1982

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 75000978 in Record Group 79.
Fillmore CountyAll 36 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.