King Oscar's Settlement

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: District.

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

The listing

Address. Co. Hwy. 40, Carver, 55315
When was it listed? January 1980
Category. district
Also known as. Carver County MRA
Township. Dahlgren township
National Register reference number. 80001974 - 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

32 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 32 fires within 5 miles of King Oscar's Settlement between 1995 and 2015, burning about 10 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 7 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	21
Arson/incendiarism	7
Natural	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
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
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
12 August 2004	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge	RAPIDS LAKE 1
11 August 2007	Natural	under an acre	Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge	CHASKA
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

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of King Oscar's Settlement: 4 producers. All of them 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
Bryan Rock Prod Inc	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

19 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Carver, the town this property stands in, in 19 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 7 thunderstorm wind, 7 hail, 2 flash flood, 2 heavy rain. The reports record 1 injury. 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
June 1999	Lightning	Carver	1 hurt	Man slightly injured by bolt, taken to local hospital for observation.
March 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Carver	$25,000	Severe wind gusts caused a roof of a gas station to blow down in Carver, Minnesota. The damage was confined to gas pumps and a metal roof.
June 2018	Flash Flood	Carver	-	Rainfall rates were nearly 2 inches per hour as thunderstorms began to train along the Minnesota River around Belle Plaine and Carver. A few local private rain gauges and radar estimates reported nearly 3 to 4 inches of rain within two hours around Carver. A Twitter picture was sent that provided details of debris flowing over the road near Jonathan Carver Parkway, and Main Street in Carver, due to the excessive rainfall. There was an unofficial report of 7 inches of rainfall during the morning around the same area where flooding occurred.
June 2014	Heavy Rain	Carver	-	A local observer had a 12 hour rainfall report of 6.13 inches.
June 2013	Heavy Rain	Carver	-	A measured rainfall total of 2.83 inches fell in a four hour period.
August 2010	Flash Flood	Carver	-	Several inches of rain fell across a large portion of Carver County between 1 and 4 AM CST. Some areas in the town of Carver, Minnesota had 8 inches of flowing water over most of their city streets during the height of the storm.
August 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Carver	-	Several large trees were blown down in Carver, Minnesota.
September 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Carver	-	Tree down across County Road 45.
June 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Carver	-	Three to four inch diameter tree down, 3 to 4 inch tree limbs felled.
May 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Carver	-	Grandstand and dugout at baseball park destroyed. Construction trailer knocked over. Roof ripped off apartment building. Major damage to house. Estimated windspeed.
July 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Carver	-	Several trees blown down.
October 1997	Hail	Carver	-	Hail accumulated to a depth of 2 inches.
June 2025	Hail	Carver	-	no account filed
April 2022	Hail	Carver	-	no account filed
May 2011	Hail	Carver	-	no account filed
June 2007	Hail	Carver	-	no account filed
May 2001	Hail	Carver	-	no account filed
June 1999	Hail	Carver	-	no account filed
July 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Carver	-	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
District No. 22 School	3.0 miles	2021
Carver Historic District	3.3 miles	1980
West Union	4.7 miles	1980
Chaska Historical Marker	4.8 miles	2010
Frederick E. DuToit House	5.1 miles	1980
Eder-Baer House	5.1 miles	1980

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 80001974 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.
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.