BlockFrom the record
One of 22 National Register listings published here for Pine County · listed in 1978 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
John A. Oldenburg House
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Listed as. Oldenburg, John A., House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
- Address. MN 18, Finlayson, 55735
- When was it listed? December 1978
- Category. building
- City. Finlayson city
- National Register reference number. 78001556 - 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
189 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 189 fires within 5 miles of John A. Oldenburg House between 1992 and 2020, burning about 387 acres in total. None started naturally. 48 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 | 71 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 48 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 34 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 23 |
| Smoking | 4 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 3 |
| Other causes | 2 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2003 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 8 September 2003 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 20 September 2006 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 15 September 2012 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 9 August 2001 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 5 August 2013 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 4 August 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 2 August 2007 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Storms near this property
17 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Finlayson, the town this property stands in, in 17 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 11 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2025 | Hail | Finlayson | - | Hail was mainly dime to quarter size with the largest hail stones being 1.5 inches in diameter. |
| July 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Finlayson | - | A cluster of trees were snapped at the base along with a spruce tree being uprooted. |
| July 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Finlayson | - | A couple of large spruce trees were downed. |
| August 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Finlayson | - | Multiple trees were downed in Finlayson by the storm. The trees were mostly dead birch and tamarack, but a few live popple trees were uprooted as well. |
| July 2016 | Flash Flood | Finlayson | - | The Pine County Sheriff's Office reported water over the road near the intersection of Highway 61 and Eds Road. |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Finlayson | - | Several trees were blown down. |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Finlayson | - | About 50 homes lost power as trees fell on power lines. |
| July 2025 | Hail | Finlayson | - | no account filed |
| July 2025 | Hail | Finlayson | - | no account filed |
| June 2024 | Hail | Finlayson | - | no account filed |
| June 2024 | Hail | Finlayson | - | no account filed |
| June 2024 | Hail | Finlayson | - | no account filed |
| July 2020 | Hail | Finlayson | - | no account filed |
| July 2017 | Hail | Finlayson | - | no account filed |
| April 2004 | Hail | Finlayson | - | no account filed |
| April 2004 | Hail | Finlayson | - | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Hail | Finlayson | - | no account filed |
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 milesOther 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 | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Northern Pacific Depot | under 500 feet | 1980 |
 | Minneapolis Trust Company Commercial Building | 5.3 miles | 1980 |
 | Sandstone School | 5.4 miles | 1979 |
 | Hinckley Fire Relief House | 5.4 miles | 1980 |
| Kettle River Sandstone Company Quarry | 5.4 miles | 1991 | |
 | Kettle River Bridge | 5.7 miles | 1998 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 78001556 in Record Group 79. |
| Pine County | All 22 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.