BlockFrom the record
One of 8 National Register listings published here for Murray County · listed in 1979 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Avoca Public School
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Address. Cole Ave. and 2nd St., Avoca, 56114
- When was it listed? October 1979
- Category. building
- Township. Lime Lake township
- National Register reference number. 79003715 - 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
1 since 2004Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Avoca Public School in 2004, burning about 10 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25 April 2004 | Arson/incendiarism | 10 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Mines and quarries near this property
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Avoca Public School: 2 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.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rupp 2 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Rupp No 3 Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this property
18 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Avoca, the town this property stands in, in 18 storm reports between 1994 and 2021: 10 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 3 tornado, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 1998 | Hail | Avoca | $100,000 | no account filed |
| March 1998 | Tornado (F1) | Avoca | $50,000 | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Avoca | $20,000 | Thunderstorm winds destroyed a small building. |
| August 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Avoca | $10,000 | A machine shed was damaged by thunderstorm wind gusts. Property damage costs are a rough estimate. |
| August 2021 | Tornado (EFU) | Avoca | - | A brief tornado started around 3 miles north-northeast of Avoca near 101st St., one-quarter mile west of 220th Avenue. The tornado traveled north-northeast over open farmland for just under two miles with damage limited to crops, then lifted just southwest of the intersection of 121st Street and 225th Avenue. Based on Sentinel satellite imagery, the average path width was 20 yards. |
| August 2021 | Flash Flood | Avoca | - | Water flowed over the road near the intersection of County Roads 30 and 38. |
| August 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Avoca | - | Significant tree damage was reported in Avoca. |
| August 2020 | Hail | Avoca | - | Most of the hail was nickel sized, but a few stones were as large as quarters. Crop damage is an estimate from insured losses. Information provided by the United States Department of Agriculture. |
| July 2011 | Hail | Avoca | - | Large hail was accompanied by rainfall measured at 1.00 inch. |
| August 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Avoca | - | Thunderstorm winds caused widespread tree damage, including several trees blown down. The winds also flattened corn fields. The amount of damage was not known. |
| July 1994 | Tornado | Avoca | - | A small tornado tounched down briefly on Lime Lake and came ashore tearing shingles from several homes. |
| August 2021 | Hail | Avoca | - | no account filed |
| July 2011 | Hail | Avoca | - | no account filed |
| July 2011 | Hail | Avoca | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Avoca | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Avoca | - | no account filed |
| June 2003 | Hail | Avoca | - | no account filed |
| June 2003 | Hail | Avoca | - | 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
3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul, and Pacific Depot | 5.8 miles | 1979 |
 | 4-H Club Building, Murray County Fairgrounds | 5.9 miles | 2005 |
 | Dinehart-Holt House | 5.9 miles | 1982 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 79003715 in Record Group 79. |
| Murray County | All 8 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.