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Daniel Dayton House

Built in 1857. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.

From the record

“The Daniel Dayton House, also known as Ravine House, is a historic stagecoach inn in Harmony Township, Minnesota, United States. It was built in 1857 as an overnight stop on the Dubuque-St.”

Wikipedia article Daniel Dayton House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 36 National Register listings published here for Fillmore County · listed in 1977 · category: Building · built in 1857.

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 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Listed as. Dayton, Daniel, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. Off Co. Hwy. 17, Harmony, 55939
  • When was it listed? December 1977
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. Overland Staging Industry in Minnesota MPS
  • Township. Harmony township
  • When was it built? 1857
  • National Register reference number. 77000732 - 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 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Daniel Dayton House between 1994 and 2008, burning about 53 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 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
Arson/incendiarism5
Smoking3
Debris and open burning3

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 July 2001Smokingunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 April 1998Smoking25 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 April 1994Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 April 2000Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 April 2000Debris and open burning1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 March 2000Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
26 March 2000Debris and open burning5.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 November 2008Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Every fire recorded in Fillmore County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Daniel Dayton House: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Franks QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Pederson Quarry & MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Fillmore County

Storms near this property

40 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Harmony, the town this property stands in, in 40 storm reports between 1995 and 2026: 16 hail, 12 thunderstorm wind, 5 heavy rain, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 1998Thunderstorm WindHarmony$50,000no account filed
June 1998Flash FloodHarmony$25,000no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindHarmony$20,000no account filed
June 2022Thunderstorm WindHarmony$15,000Trees were blown down with some minor structural damage to buildings just south of Harmony.
May 2012Thunderstorm WindHarmony$2,000Several trees were blown down 2.5 miles west of Harmony.
May 2012Thunderstorm WindHarmony$2,000An estimated wind gust of 70 mph knocked down trees in Harmony. In addition, A NWS Storm Survey found a 20 inch tree branch snapped at the high school.
June 1998FloodHarmony$1,600no account filed
April 2026HailHarmony-A trained spotter reported ping pong ball sized hail near Harmony.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindHarmony-The public reported a shed destroyed by downed trees in Harmony.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindHarmony-The fire department in Harmony reported two large trees down.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindHarmony-The fire department in Harmony measured a wind gust of 72 mph.
December 2021Funnel CloudHarmony-A funnel cloud was sighted near Harmony.
December 2021Thunderstorm WindHarmony-An 84 mph wind gust was measured in Harmony with a private weather station.
July 2016Heavy RainHarmony-In Harmony, 3.26 inches of rain fell.
July 2016Flash FloodHarmony-Heavy rains caused Deer Creek to go out of its banks and send water over State Highay 139 south of Harmony.
June 2014Heavy RainHarmony-In Harmony, 3.74 inches of rain was measured.
June 2013Heavy RainHarmony-In Harmony, 4 inches of rain was reported.
April 2013Heavy RainHarmony-A rainfall report of 3.14 inches was received from the public near Harmony.
April 2013HailHarmony-Ping pong sized hail fell just north of Harmony.
April 2013HailHarmony-Half dollar sized hail was reported in Harmony.
July 2013HailHarmony-Quarter sized hail fell west of Harmony.
May 2012Thunderstorm WindHarmony-A wind gust of 64 mph was measured by spotters in Harmony.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindHarmony-The Harmony fire department reported a peak wind gust of 60 mph.
September 2010Heavy RainHarmony-The storm total rainfall was 4.83 inches, while 1.92 inches of that total fell between 6 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. CST on the 22nd. Elsewhere across the county, storm total amounts included 4.48 inches near Spring Valley, 4.13 inches at Carimona, and 3.89 inches at Highland.
July 1995Thunderstorm WindHarmony-Fourteen-foot speed boat thrown into field. Numerous large trees down.
April 2015HailHarmony-no account filed
April 2013HailHarmony-no account filed
June 2007HailHarmony-no account filed
May 2006HailHarmony-no account filed
May 2006HailHarmony-no account filed
June 2004Funnel CloudHarmony-no account filed
June 2004Tornado (F0)Harmony-no account filed
April 2002HailHarmony-no account filed
April 2002HailHarmony-no account filed
July 1998HailHarmony-no account filed
August 1997HailHarmony-no account filed
June 1997HailHarmony-no account filed
June 1997HailHarmony-no account filed
June 1997Tornado (F0)Harmony-no account filed
May 1995HailHarmony-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
Milwaukee Elevator6.2 miles2006
Fillmore County Jail and Carriage House6.4 miles1982
Preston Overlook6.5 miles2003
Preston Brewery6.5 miles1982
William Strong House7.1 miles1982
Milwaukee Chicago St. Paul and Pacific Railroad Depot7.8 miles2018

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 77000732 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
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.