Walnut Street Historic District

Built in 1860 (Greek Revival architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

From the record

“Walnut Street Historic District is a historic district in Chaska, Minnesota, United States, listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The district is roughly bounded by Walnut, Second, Chestnut, and Sixth Streets.”
Wikipedia article Walnut Street Historic District (Chaska, Minnesota), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 35 National Register listings published here for Carver County · listed in 1980 · category: District · built in 1860, Greek Revival architecture.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

Address. Roughly around Walnut, 2nd, Chestnut and 6th Sts., Chaska, 55318
When was it listed? January 1980
Category. district
Also known as. Carver County MRA
City. Chaska city
When was it built? 1860
Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 80001973 - 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

57 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 57 fires within 5 miles of Walnut Street Historic District between 1995 and 2015, burning about 13 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 15 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
Recreation and ceremony	37
Arson/incendiarism	15
Natural	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Debris and open burning	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 1995	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge	BOARDWALK2
1 September 1995	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge	BOARDWALK1
25 August 2007	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge	HARTUNG
21 August 2008	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge	RAPIDS
2 August 2013	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge	LOUISVILLE SWAMP 3
11 August 2007	Natural	under an acre	Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge	CHASKA
8 July 2002	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge	GATE
7 July 2006	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge	JABS

Every fire recorded in Carver County

Mines and quarries near this property

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Walnut Street Historic District: 5 producers, 1 occurrence. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay. 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
Carver County Clay Deposit	Clay	Occurrence
Bryan Rock Prod Inc	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Malkerson Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Eggum Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Mueller Sand and Gravel Pit No 1	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Mueller Sand and Gravel Pit No 2	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Carver County

Storms near this property

54 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Chaska, the town this property stands in, in 54 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 26 hail, 20 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood, 3 heavy rain. The reports record 2 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	Chaska	2 hurt, $9,200,000	Roof torn off building injuring 2. South wall of building center blown out. Damage estimate for entire county. Estimated windspeed.
July 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Chaska	-	A tree and several branches up to 12 inches in diameter were downed onto parked cars in downtown Chaska.
May 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Chaska	-	A severe wind gust was measured by a home anemometer.
May 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Chaska	-	A large pine tree was blown across a road near Chaska.
June 2016	Hail	Chaska	-	A photo of a 1.25 diameter hail stone was shared via twitter in Chaska. There was an article in the local newspaper of 1 to 2 foot hail drifts at a local park.
June 2016	Heavy Rain	Chaska	-	A trained weather observer measured 3.60 inches of rainfall in less than 5 hours, two miles northeast of downtown Chaska.
June 2016	Heavy Rain	Chaska	-	A trained weather observer measured 2.73 inches of rain in less than 5 hours, south of the National Weather Service office in Chanhassen.
June 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Chaska	-	Several large tree limbs were blown down in Chaska between Highways 41 and 101.
June 2014	Heavy Rain	Chaska	-	A local observer had a 12 hour rainfall report of 5.85 inches.
June 2014	Flash Flood	Chaska	-	Flooding along a small creek in Chaska caused part of Bavaria Road to close.
June 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Chaska	-	Several large tree branches were blown down near Chaska.
August 2010	Flash Flood	Chaska	-	Several inches of rain fell across a large portion of Carver County between 1 and 4 AM CST. The town of Chaska, Minnesota, north of Highway 212 had four feet of flowing water over it during the height of the storm.
July 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Chaska	-	Small tree toppled on Highway 212 near County road 146.
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Chaska	-	Shingles torn off roofs at the University of Minnesota Arboretum.
August 2007	Hail	Chaska	-	Reported at Highway 41 and Pioneer Trail.
August 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Chaska	-	Tree down.
July 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Chaska	-	Tree down across road at HWY 41 and Pioneer trail.
June 2005	Hail	Chaska	-	Dime sized hail fell at the intersection of Highway 41 and County Road 11.
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Chaska	-	Trees and a few power lines were downed.
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Chaska	-	Tree branches up to 4 inches in diameter were downed.
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Chaska	-	Trees were downed.
August 2005	Lightning	Chaska	-	Two homes caught fire after being struck by lightning. The second story of one of the homes became engulfed in flames and suffered significant damage.
October 2005	Flash Flood	Chaska	-	Several streets flooded Chaska, where a few roads had waist deep water. One automobile stalled due to the flooding. The NWS office in Chanhassen recorded 4.61 inches rain.
April 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Chaska	-	A 60 MPH wind gust was reported by a spotter.
September 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Chaska	-	A large tree was downed onto a power line, setting it on fire. A fence was also damaged by the felled tree. The time was estimated.
July 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Chaska	-	Several trees down, including one on a house.
June 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Chaska	-	Trees blown down. Estimated windspeed.
July 1997	Hail	Chaska	-	Damage to vehicles.
July 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Chaska	-	Power lines and trees blown down.
June 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Chaska	-	6 inch branches down. Estimated windspeed.
May 2024	Hail	Chaska	-	no account filed
May 2022	Hail	Chaska	-	no account filed
April 2022	Hail	Chaska	-	no account filed
April 2022	Hail	Chaska	-	no account filed
July 2019	Hail	Chaska	-	no account filed
July 2019	Hail	Chaska	-	no account filed
May 2015	Hail	Chaska	-	no account filed
May 2011	Hail	Chaska	-	no account filed
May 2011	Hail	Chaska	-	no account filed
June 2008	Hail	Chaska	-	no account filed
June 2008	Hail	Chaska	-	no account filed
June 2008	Hail	Chaska	-	no account filed
July 2008	Hail	Chaska	-	no account filed
April 2007	Hail	Chaska	-	no account filed
June 2007	Hail	Chaska	-	no account filed
April 2006	Hail	Chaska	-	no account filed
April 2006	Hail	Chaska	-	no account filed
September 2005	Hail	Chaska	-	no account filed
May 2002	Hail	Chaska	-	no account filed
August 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Chaska	-	no account filed
June 2001	Hail	Chaska	-	no account filed
May 2001	Hail	Chaska	-	no account filed
October 1996	Funnel Cloud	Chaska	-	no account filed
June 1994	Hail	Chaska	-	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
Brinkhaus Saloon Livery Barn	under 500 feet	1980
Simons Building and Livery Barn	0.1 miles	1980
Frederick Greiner House	0.1 miles	1980
Herald Block	0.2 miles	1980
E. H. Lewis House	0.3 miles	1980
Eder-Baer House	0.3 miles	1980

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 80001973 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
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.
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.