Archibald Mill

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.

From the record

“The Archibald Mill was a water-powered gristmill complex, now reduced to ruins, on the Cannon River in Dundas, Minnesota, United States. The mill was founded in 1857 and expanded with a second mill across the river in 1870.”
Wikipedia article Archibald Mill, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 76 National Register listings published here for Rice County · listed in 1976 · category: Site.

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 site as contributing to the listing.
Address. Railway St., Dundas, 55019
When was it listed? October 1976
Category. site
City. Dundas city
National Register reference number. 76001071 - 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

6 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Archibald Mill between 2001 and 2012, burning about 6 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
Recreation and ceremony	3
Equipment and vehicle use	2
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
1 May 2001	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge	STOLAF
20 April 2012	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge	BLACK DOG
7 December 2012	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge	BLOOMINGOTN FERRY 1
29 November 2012	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge	SORENSON LANDING 1
22 October 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge	CO RD 18
12 October 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	3.0 acres	Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge	CO RD 101

Every fire recorded in Rice 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 Archibald Mill: 1 producer. All of them still produce. 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
	Shilling Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Rice County

Storms near this property

23 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dundas, the town this property stands in, in 23 storm reports between 1998 and 2023: 12 hail, 9 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado. 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 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Dundas	$150,000	Roof off house, three barns down, roofs off three storage buildings, one storage building blown 1/4 mile, garage collapsed, several hundred trees downed. A 56 knot gust was measured in downtown Northfield at the Public Safety Building, with 40 to 50 knot winds persisting for another 10 minutes. Wind was stronger just outside Northfield, where stronger wind and the most severe damage occurred.
March 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Dundas	$15,000	A 50 foot tree was blown down and landed on an automobile in Dundas, Minnesota.
April 2022	Hail	Dundas	-	There was a swath of large hail, up to ping pong size, that fell from near Dundas, northeast across the city of Northfield, and to the Dakota, Rice County line.
May 2021	Tornado (EF0)	Dundas	-	Two storm chasers took video of a narrow tornado. A damage survey revealed that several trees were broken or blown down. Law enforcement and spotters were also watching the tornado.
September 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Dundas	-	A NWS storm survey, plus areal footage of drone and satellite data, concluded that there was sporadic downburst and inflow wind damage from south of Northfield, east and northeast to the Rice, Goodhue county line, west of Stanton. \|\|There was no definite path of damage but more widespread uprooted trees, power lines, and destroyed outbuildings and silos. The worst damage occurred to a farm near the intersection of 90th Street East, and Kellogg Ave. Two large silos and outbuildings were either blown over, or destroyed. The damage is consistent with wind gusts of 110 mph. Other damage was associated with flattened corn and soy bean fields.
September 2018	Tornado (EF0)	Dundas	-	A NWS storm survey, plus areal footage of drone and satellite data, concluded that an EF0 tornado tracked 5.5 miles from the intersection of I-35 and 130th Street West, northeast to the city of Dundas. This tornado started with damage to a billboard on I-35 with uprooted pine trees, then mainly damage to corn and soy bean fields, and it ended with several large trees uprooted in Dundas. The damage was consistent with EF0 damage with maximum wind speeds of 75 mph and a width of 75 yards.
June 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Dundas	-	A few trees were reported blown down in the area of 145th & 150th just west of Hwy 3. There was also a large pine tree (about 2' diameter) that fell partially onto I-35, north of 130th Street. There were also some trees down in the City of Northfield.
August 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Dundas	-	A large tree was uprooted east of Dundas.
July 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Dundas	-	A two foot diameter tree was blown down near Dundas, Minnesota.
July 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Dundas	-	Several large tree limbs were torn off a tree near Dundas, Minnesota.
June 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Dundas	-	Barn blown down along Co Rd 1. Estimated windspeed.
July 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Dundas	-	Power lines blown down. Estimated windspeed.
July 2023	Hail	Dundas	-	no account filed
May 2017	Hail	Dundas	-	no account filed
June 2012	Hail	Dundas	-	no account filed
June 2012	Hail	Dundas	-	no account filed
April 2006	Hail	Dundas	-	no account filed
August 2006	Hail	Dundas	-	no account filed
April 2004	Hail	Dundas	-	no account filed
May 2004	Hail	Dundas	-	no account filed
June 1998	Hail	Dundas	-	no account filed
June 1998	Hail	Dundas	-	no account filed
June 1998	Hail	Dundas	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Rice 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
Wiliam Martin House	0.2 miles	1982
Ault Store	0.2 miles	1982
Edward T. Archibald House	0.3 miles	1976
Church of the Holy Cross-Episcopal	0.3 miles	1982
Edwin S. Drake Farmhouse	2.2 miles	1982
Steensland Library-St. Olaf College	2.4 miles	1982

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 76001071 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Rice County	All 76 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.