Fair Haven Flour Mill

Built in 1867. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.

From the record

“The Fair Haven Flour Mill is a historic former mill on the Clearwater River in the unincorporated community of Fairhaven, Minnesota, United States. Built in 1867, it is the third-oldest mill still standing in Minnesota.”
Wikipedia article Fair Haven Flour Mill, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 36 National Register listings published here for Stearns County · listed in 1978 · category: Building · built in 1867.

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.
Address. Off Co. Hwy. 7, Fairhaven, 55382
When was it listed? April 1978
Category. building
Township. Fair Haven township
When was it built? 1867
National Register reference number. 78001574 - 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.

The ground it stands on

2,060 words

This property stands in Fair Haven Township. History of Stearns County, Minnesota, published 1915 gives that township a chapter of its own.

The chapter covers the township.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Fair Haven Township - 2,060 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.

Fires near this property

2 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Fair Haven Flour Mill between 1999 and 2000, burning about 31 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
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Recreation and ceremony	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
26 September 2000	Railroad operations and maintenance	9.0 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
15 November 1999	Recreation and ceremony	22 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Stearns County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Fair Haven Flour Mill: 3 producers. 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Anderson Pit and Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Minnesota Rock Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Rockite Schram Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Stearns County

Storms near this property

8 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fairhaven, the town this property stands in, in 8 storm reports between 2002 and 2021: 6 hail, 1 flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
March 2009	Flood	Fairhaven	$100,000	Many roads in and around Fairhaven were under two to four feet of running water. County Emergency Managers and other local officials reported that several other county roads throughout the county had minor flooding due to the 2.5 to 3 inch of rainfall. \|\|In addition, sandbagging continued to take place in communities along the Sauk River Sauk Centre, Melrose, Cold Spring, Richmond, Waite Park. \|\|The Minnesota Department of Transportation closed approximately 6 miles of State Highway 22 north of Richmond, from County Road 43 to Highway 23 until further notice because of water over the road from the Chain of Lakes and the Sauk River.\|\|On March 31, after flood waters receded, county officials reported minor road damage throughout the county, with some minor home damage in Twin Lakes.
August 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Fairhaven	-	A large tree fell on a power line near Fairhaven.
July 2008	Hail	Fairhaven	-	Hail size was mainly nickel to quarter size.
April 2021	Hail	Fairhaven	-	no account filed
May 2008	Hail	Fairhaven	-	no account filed
June 2006	Hail	Fairhaven	-	no account filed
June 2005	Hail	Fairhaven	-	no account filed
April 2002	Hail	Fairhaven	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Stearns 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

1 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	Property	Distance	Listed
	Kimball Prairie Village Hall	4.2 miles	1982

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 78001574 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Stearns County	All 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.