Paul Mohrbacher House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

From the record

One of 35 National Register listings published here for Carver County · listed in 1980 · category: Building.

Sources: 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. Mohrbacher, Paul, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 102 Paul Ave., S., Cologne, 55322
When was it listed? January 1980
Category. building
Also known as. Carver County MRA
Township. Benton township
Architectural style. Neoclassical architecture
National Register reference number. 80001972 - 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 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Paul Mohrbacher House in 2007, burning about 52 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
Equipment and vehicle use	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 November 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	52 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Carver County

Storms near this property

20 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cologne, the town this property stands in, in 20 storm reports between 1996 and 2022: 10 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
May 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Cologne	$25,000	There were multiple trees and power lines blown down near Cologne.
May 2012	Heavy Rain	Cologne	-	A local observer measured 4.20 inches in the last 24 hours.
June 2012	Flash Flood	Cologne	-	Due to approximately 3.5 inches of rainfall during a short period of time, Maplewood Road in Dahlgren Township, between Market Ave and County Road 41 was closed due to a culvert wash-out.
August 2010	Flash Flood	Cologne	-	Several inches of rain fell across a large portion of Carver County between 1 and 4 AM CST. Some areas in the town of Cologne, Minnesota had 12 inches of flowing water over its streets during the height of the storm.
June 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Cologne	-	Small trees down. Several branches four inches in diameter felled. Pea size hail also reported.
May 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Cologne	-	Heavy debris was reported in the air near the county maintenance building between Norwood and Cologne along Route 212.
August 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Cologne	-	Scattered trees down.
July 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Cologne	-	Large branches down. Estimated windspeed.
May 2012	Hail	Cologne	-	no account filed
August 2011	Hail	Cologne	-	no account filed
June 2007	Hail	Cologne	-	no account filed
June 2007	Hail	Cologne	-	no account filed
April 2006	Hail	Cologne	-	no account filed
April 2006	Hail	Cologne	-	no account filed
September 2005	Hail	Cologne	-	no account filed
April 2004	Hail	Cologne	-	no account filed
May 2001	Hail	Cologne	-	no account filed
May 1998	Hail	Cologne	-	no account filed
May 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Cologne	-	no account filed
October 1996	Tornado (F0)	Cologne	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Carver 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
John Knotz House	0.1 miles	1980
Philip Guettler House	0.1 miles	1980
J. Carsten and Magaretha Harms Farmhouse	1.7 miles	2013
West Union	3.7 miles	1980
Zoar Moravian Church	4.2 miles	1980
Johann Schimmelpfennig Farmstead	4.8 miles	1980

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 80001972 in Record Group 79.
Carver County	All 35 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.