Johann Schimmelpfennig Farmstead

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

From the record

“The Johann Schimmelpfennig Farmstead is a farm in Benton Township, Carver County, Minnesota listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The log and wood-framed buildings, built between 1856 and 1909, demonstrate the evolution of Minnesota farmsteads during that era.”
Wikipedia article Johann Schimmelpfennig Farmstead, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 35 National Register listings published here for Carver County · listed in 1980 · 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 5 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Schimmelpfennig, Johann, Farmstead - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. Off US 212, Young America, 55368
When was it listed? January 1980
Category. building
Also known as. Carver County MRA
Township. Benton township
National Register reference number. 80001980 - 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

2 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Johann Schimmelpfennig Farmstead between 2003 and 2007, burning about 252 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	2

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
20 October 2003	Equipment and vehicle use	200 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	BENTON TOWNSHIP FIRE

Every fire 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
Young America City Hall	1.7 miles	1980
Norwood Methodist Episcopal Church	2.5 miles	1980
Winter Saloon	2.6 miles	1980
J. Carsten and Magaretha Harms Farmhouse	3.9 miles	2013
Paul Mohrbacher House	4.8 miles	1980
John Knotz House	4.8 miles	1980

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 80001980 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.