George Stoppel Farmstead

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.

From the record

“The George Stoppel Farmstead is a pioneer farm located just outside the western city limits of Rochester, Minnesota, United States. The farmstead is owned and operated by the History Center of Olmsted County.”
Wikipedia article George Stoppel Farmstead, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 26 National Register listings published here for Olmsted County · listed in 1975 · category: District.

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

The listing

Listed as. Stoppel, George, Farmstead - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. Co. Hwys. 25 and 122, Rochester, 55902
When was it listed? May 1975
Category. district
Township. Rochester township
National Register reference number. 75001000 - 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

2 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of George Stoppel Farmstead between 1992 and 2000, burning about 1 acre 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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 May 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
27 March 1992	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Olmsted County

Mines and quarries near this property

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of George Stoppel Farmstead: 6 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Maywood Quarry & Mill	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
West River Road Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Q & A Club Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Quarve & Anderson Club M	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Rochester Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
South Pit & Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Olmsted County

Storms near this property

60 of 218 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rochester, the town this property stands in, in 218 storm reports between 1993 and 2026: 104 hail, 64 thunderstorm wind, 15 flood, 13 lightning. The reports record 1 death. 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
December 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Rochester	1 killed, $10,000	One person was killed east of Rochester when a 40 foot pine tree was snapped off, fell and landed on the individual and his pickup truck.
August 2007	Flash Flood	Rochester	$35,000,000	Heavy thunderstorm rains caused widespread flash flooding in Rochester and surrounding areas across the county. Extensive damage was caused to sewer systems, water wells, roadways, parks, and flood control reservoirs.\|\|Highway 14 was closed east of Rochester due to wash outs and flash flooding. A mudslide hit the Ronald McDonald house in Rochester with evacuations around 6 a.m. Red Cross shelters were set up. Flooding reports began around 915 p.m. Saturday August 18.
August 1999	Hail	Rochester	$1,500,000	no account filed
August 1999	Hail	Rochester	$1,250,000	no account filed
August 1999	Hail	Rochester	$1,000,000	no account filed
August 1999	Hail	Rochester	$750,000	no account filed
September 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Rochester	$500,000	Over 175 trees were blown down across Rochester. Numerous homes and cars were damaged when the trees landed on them. Power lines were also blown down or came down with the fallen trees, knocking out the power to 4,800 customers across the city.
August 1999	Hail	Rochester	$500,000	no account filed
August 2013	Flash Flood	Rochester	$400,000	Locally heavy rains in Rochester produced flash flooding that inundated several street intersections causing numerous vehicles to become stranded. Some of the stranded vehicles had water up to their windows. The heavy rain also caused water to cascade into a below ground entrance of a Mayo Health building. Trash cans put out to be picked up floated down the streets, often spilling their contents.
June 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Rochester	$320,000	no account filed
March 1998	Hail	Rochester	$250,000	no account filed
July 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Rochester	$160,000	Numerous trees were blown down across Rochester. Power poles were snapped, creating several power outages across the city that affected more than 3,500 customers. One tree fell on a church, causing roof damage that allowed water to leak into the building.
April 2026	Hail	Rochester	$150,000	A trained spotter reported golf ball sized hail 4 miles north of Rochester.
June 2017	Hail	Rochester	$100,000	Golfball sized hail was reported on the southeast side of Rochester.
June 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Rochester	$100,000	no account filed
April 2026	Tornado (EF1)	Rochester	$87,000	This EF-1 tornado began in northeast portions of Rochester resulting in minor roof damage to a couple of homes before moving northeast through rural portions of Olmsted County, damaging trees and a few electrical poles before moving into Wabasha County.
August 2000	Hail	Rochester	$75,000	no account filed
May 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Rochester	$75,000	no account filed
June 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Rochester	$70,000	Trees were blown down on the southwest side of Rochester that also brought down some power lines. Over 1,200 customers lost power. The frame of a house was broken by the impact of a tree falling on it.
August 1995	Tornado (F0)	Rochester	$70,000	Brief tornado touchdown resulted in extensive damage to office plaza roof. Several large trees uprooted. Numerous power lines down.
June 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Rochester	$70,000	no account filed
July 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Rochester	$55,000	no account filed
June 2005	Hail	Rochester	$50,000	no account filed
June 2005	Hail	Rochester	$50,000	no account filed
June 2005	Hail	Rochester	$50,000	no account filed
March 1998	Hail	Rochester	$50,000	no account filed
September 2012	Lightning	Rochester	$45,000	The roof of a home on the southeast side of Rochester was destroyed by a fire that was ignited by a lightning strike.
June 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Rochester	$45,000	no account filed
June 2019	Tornado (EF1)	Rochester	$40,000	A short-lived tornado moved through the southwest portions of Rochester. The roof of one home was partially removed and numerous trees were damaged along the path of the tornado.
September 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Rochester	$40,000	Several trees were blown down across Rochester. A few homes were damaged when trees landed on them.
September 2012	Lightning	Rochester	$40,000	A house on the southeast side of Rochester was struck by lightning which started a fire in the attic. The fire was quickly brought under control but the lightning strike created a serious electrical problem in the house and two firefighters received minor shocks but were not injured.
August 2013	Flood	Rochester	$35,000	Locally heavy rain produced street flooding on the southwest side of Rochester. One vehicle became stranded in a flooded intersection.
May 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Rochester	$35,000	no account filed
May 2022	Hail	Rochester	$30,000	Ping pong sized hail fell east of Rochester. Several cars were damaged by the hail.
June 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Rochester	$30,000	An estimated 60 mph wind gust occurred in the Apache Mall area in Rochester. Numerous trees and power lines were blown down across the southwest part of the city. At one point, up to 2,000 customers were without power.
June 2005	Hail	Rochester	$30,000	no account filed
May 1998	Hail	Rochester	$30,000	no account filed
June 2020	Lightning	Rochester	$25,000	A lightning strike started a fire at an apartment building on the east side of Rochester.
May 2000	Hail	Rochester	$25,000	no account filed
May 1999	Lightning	Rochester	$25,000	no account filed
June 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Rochester	$25,000	no account filed
May 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Rochester	$25,000	no account filed
June 1998	Hail	Rochester	$25,000	no account filed
July 1997	Hail	Rochester	$25,000	no account filed
July 2016	Lightning	Rochester	$20,000	A fire was started in a house on the northwest side of Rochester from a lightning strike. The fire caused damaged to the roof and trusses of the house.
August 2007	Flood	Rochester	$20,000	Law enforcement officials reported some roads washed out or still under water.
August 2007	Flood	Rochester	$20,000	Cascade Creek and the South Fork of the Zumbro River responded to excessive rainfall by rising quickly above flood stage. Cascade Creek reached a crest of 16.52 feet. Flood stage is 13.0 feet. The Zumbro River crested at 16.64 feet. Flood stage is 14.0 feet.
May 2008	Hail	Rochester	$20,000	no account filed
June 2005	Hail	Rochester	$20,000	no account filed
May 1998	Hail	Rochester	$20,000	no account filed
March 1998	Hail	Rochester	$20,000	no account filed
May 2000	Hail	Rochester	$18,000	no account filed
June 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Rochester	$15,000	Trained spotters in Rochester reported a 62 mph wind gust with a tree down on a powerline as well.
June 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Rochester	$15,000	Part of a large tree was blown down onto a house on the north side of Rochester.
May 2000	Hail	Rochester	$15,000	no account filed
June 1998	Flash Flood	Rochester	$15,000	no account filed
July 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Rochester	$14,000	no account filed
July 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Rochester	$12,500	no account filed
June 2014	Flood	Rochester	$10,000	Heavy rain caused a mall parking lot on the southwest side of Rochester to flood. Several cars became partially submerged in the water.
June 2013	Lightning	Rochester	$10,000	The corner of a house on the northeast side of Rochester was started on fire by a lightning strike.

Every storm recorded in Olmsted 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
Mayowood Historic District	1.1 miles	1970
Henry S. Plummer House	1.6 miles	1975
Pill Hill Residential Historic District	1.9 miles	1990
Toogood Barns	1.9 miles	1975
Dr. Donald C. Balfour House	2.0 miles	2004
Dr. William J. Mayo House	2.1 miles	1975

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 75001000 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Olmsted County	All 26 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.