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Minneapolis St. Paul Rochester & Dubuque Electric Traction Company Depot

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

From the record

“The Minneapolis Saint Paul Rochester & Dubuque Electric Traction Company Depot or Orchard Gardens Railway Station, located at County Road 5 and 155th Street in Burnsville in the U.S. state of Minnesota was built in 1910 on the Dan Patch Line, later known as the Minneapolis, Northfield and Southern Railway. Connecting Northfield and Minneapolis, the line carried agricultural produce from rural Dakota County to urban markets.”
Wikipedia article Minneapolis Saint Paul Rochester & Dubuque Electric Traction Company Depot, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 40 National Register listings published here for Dakota County · listed in 1979 · category: Building.

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. Co. Hwy. 5 at 155th St., Burnsville, 55306
When was it listed? December 1979
Category. building
City. Burnsville city
National Register reference number. 79001222 - 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 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Minneapolis St. Paul Rochester & Dubuque Electric Traction Company Depot between 2006 and 2020, burning about 22 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Recreation and ceremony	1
Fireworks	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
5 August 2013	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge	LOUISVILLE SWAMP
20 May 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge	CLIFF
29 April 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.0 acres	Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge	COLEMAN LAKE
4 March 2006	Fireworks	2.0 acres	Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge	BLACK DOG
9 December 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8.4 acres	Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge	CLIFF FEN
18 November 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge	KRAMER GRAVEL

Every fire recorded in Dakota County

Mines and quarries near this property

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Minneapolis St. Paul Rochester & Dubuque Electric Traction Company Depot: 4 producers, 3 unknowns. 4 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
Burnsville Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Casperson Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Fisher Sand & Aggregate Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Kraemer Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Lakeville Pit & Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Mva Pit & Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Northwestern Sand & Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown

Every working recorded in Dakota County

Storms near this property

60 of 65 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Burnsville, the town this property stands in, in 65 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 38 hail, 17 thunderstorm wind, 3 lightning, 3 flash flood. The reports record 7 injuries. 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
May 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Burnsville	7 hurt, $140,000,000	Brick wall blown in at retail center. 2000 trees blown down. Indoor mall sustained $1 million in damage. 3 homes destroyed. Numerous trees down. Damage estimate for entire county. Estimated windspeed.
May 1998	Hail	Burnsville	$100,000,000	Widespread damage to houses and vehicles by wind driven hail. Damage estimate for entire county.
June 2001	Hail	Burnsville	$500,000	Wind driven hail damaged houses and vehicles.
July 2013	Flash Flood	Burnsville	$150,000	Several local officials, trained spotters and the general public observed flash flooding across western Dakota County due to 3, to locally 5, inches of rain that fell between 5 AM CST to 9 AM CST. Numerous county roads were inundated with flood waters, especially along the western part of the Vermillion River and Chub Creek. Dodd Blvd, near 194th street, in Lakeville, was closed for a short period due to flood waters. A foot of flowing water was over Highway 19, about a quarter mile east of Interstate 35 during the height of the storm. An official observer near the intersection of Interstates 35W and 35E measured 4.47 inches of rainfall in 3 hours.
November 2012	Tornado (EF0)	Burnsville	$150,000	An EF-0 tornado developed northeast of the intersection of County Road 5 and McAndrews Road, and tracked northeast to just southwest of the intersection of Burnsville Parkway and County Road 11. A large area of uprooted trees and power lines occurred along a non-continuous broken path of 2.8 miles in a heavily populated region of Burnsville. The worst damage occurred in a two block area between Knoll Lane and Nicollet Avenue, and Nicollet Jr High School.
June 2016	Hail	Burnsville	$1,000	The public reported half dollar size hail near Burnsville. The hail stones damaged a vehicle.
July 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Burnsville	$1,000	A large section of a privacy fence was blown down in Burnsville.
August 2025	Hail	Burnsville	-	Hail was photographed near County Roads 42 and 5. It hailed for roughly five minutes.
September 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Burnsville	-	A large tree was uprooted near I-35 and Nicollet Avenue in Burnsville.
March 2019	Flood	Burnsville	-	Snow melt and recent heavy rainfall caused the Minnesota River in Dakota County to rise above major stage. The stage rose to the point that the automated river gauge stopped reporting as it was underwater. In addition, Fort Snelling State Park was closed for a long duration due to the flooding along the Minnesota River.
June 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Burnsville	-	A few trees were blown down between Burnsville and Rosemount, in Dakota County.
August 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Burnsville	-	A few trees were snapped in half around Burnsville.
July 2019	Hail	Burnsville	-	This is the continued path of very large hail that moved from Scott County, into Dakota County. Up to ping pong size hail continued to fall into Dakota County near the I-35W, and I-35E interchange.
May 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Burnsville	-	Several uprooted trees and six power poles were blown down on the north side of Highway 13, along Washburn Ave. This is near the Burnsville Waste Management site.
August 2016	Flash Flood	Burnsville	-	Flood water rose up to automobile windshields in Burnsville, with manhole covers reported blown off due to the intense rainfall and significant runoff.
June 2014	Flood	Burnsville	-	Several sources in Dakota County compiled a summary of flood related damages and locations for the flood of June 2014. The City of Mendota was evacuated due to a large mudslide that affected several homes. The Minnesota Department of Transportation closed one lane on Interstate 35 due to the Minnesota River flood waters.
July 2014	Hail	Burnsville	-	Several trained spotters and the general public reported a swath of large hailstones from near Highway 13, and Interstate 35 in Burnsville, southeast through Apple Valley to Rosemount. The largest hailstone was the size of golf balls.
July 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Burnsville	-	Multiple tree limbs, up to 8 inches in diameter, along County Road 11, through Echo Park, \|were blown down.
July 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Burnsville	-	A six inch diameter tree was blown down and blocked a road in Burnsville.
July 2013	Heavy Rain	Burnsville	-	A measured rainfall amount of 4.47 inches fell in less than 3 hours.
June 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Burnsville	-	A few power lines were blown down in Burnsville causing isolated power outages.
June 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Burnsville	-	Several large trees were blown down on Burnsville Parkway and Interstate 35W.
May 2011	Hail	Burnsville	-	Hail fell at County Road 42 and Portland Avenue in Burnsville.
June 2010	Flash Flood	Burnsville	-	Very heavy rainfall, and the associated street flooding, caused numerous cars to be stranded across city streets from Burnsville to Lakeville, Minnesota.
July 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Burnsville	-	Portion of a metal roof of a building on Lady Bird Lane and Dupont Ave.\|Several branches and trees downed in the area West of 35W south of the river toward Savage.
August 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Burnsville	-	Three to four inch tree limbs down, minor damage to vehicle, damage to a stop sign at West River Hills and Cliff Road.
June 2005	Hail	Burnsville	-	Dime to nickel sized hail fell at the intersection of Cliff Road and Nicollet.
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Burnsville	-	A few trees and many branches were downed.
June 2005	Hail	Burnsville	-	Penny sized hail fell near Burnsville Center Mall.
June 2005	Lightning	Burnsville	-	A townhouse was burned down by a fire triggered by lightning. Three nearby townhouse units were damaged.
October 2005	Lightning	Burnsville	-	The lightning bolt produced minor damage to a home on Butternut Lane.
October 2005	Lightning	Burnsville	-	Lightning struck the gas main of a home on Bluebill Bay Road, sparking a four alarm fire. There was significant damage to the home, but no injuries.
June 2001	Hail	Burnsville	-	Reported at Hwy. 13 and County Rd. 5.
June 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Burnsville	-	Four inch diameter branch severed at I-35 and Burnsville Parkway. Security light bent.
June 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Burnsville	-	Dozens of trees down, including some two feet in diameter.
May 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Burnsville	-	Windows blown in. Estimated windspeed.
June 1998	Hail	Burnsville	-	Damage also reported in Apple Valley.
August 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Burnsville	-	Trees and power lines down.
May 2022	Hail	Burnsville	-	no account filed
August 2018	Hail	Burnsville	-	no account filed
August 2013	Hail	Burnsville	-	no account filed
August 2013	Hail	Burnsville	-	no account filed
August 2013	Hail	Burnsville	-	no account filed
August 2013	Hail	Burnsville	-	no account filed
August 2013	Hail	Burnsville	-	no account filed
August 2013	Hail	Burnsville	-	no account filed
April 2012	Hail	Burnsville	-	no account filed
May 2012	Hail	Burnsville	-	no account filed
May 2011	Hail	Burnsville	-	no account filed
August 2007	Hail	Burnsville	-	no account filed
June 2007	Hail	Burnsville	-	no account filed
September 2005	Hail	Burnsville	-	no account filed
September 2005	Hail	Burnsville	-	no account filed
August 2004	Hail	Burnsville	-	no account filed
April 2002	Hail	Burnsville	-	no account filed
April 2002	Hail	Burnsville	-	no account filed
April 2002	Hail	Burnsville	-	no account filed
April 2002	Hail	Burnsville	-	no account filed
April 2002	Hail	Burnsville	-	no account filed
June 2001	Hail	Burnsville	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Dakota 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

2 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
	Emil J. Oberhoffer House	1.6 miles	1979
	Daniel F. Akin House	7.2 miles	1979

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 79001222 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Dakota County	All 40 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.