Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.
“Laketown Moravian Brethren's Church is a historic church on County Highway 11 in Victoria, Minnesota, United States.”
Wikipedia article Laketown Moravian Brethren's Church, 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 Wikipedia article
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Laketown Moravian Brethren's Church in 2010, burning about 85 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 |
|---|---|
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11 April 2010 | Recreation and ceremony | 85 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Victoria, the town this property stands in, in 29 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 13 hail, 9 thunderstorm wind, 4 heavy rain, 1 funnel cloud. 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 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Victoria | $5,000,000 | Windows broken. Trees blown down. Partial structural damage to building. Scattered areas damaged to wind driven hail. Estimated windspeed. Damage estimate for entire county. |
| August 2020 | Hail | Victoria | $500,000 | Numerous sources from social media pictures, to trained spotters and official NWS observations, reported and measured very large hail for nearly 40 minutes from Victoria, eastward to the Carver, Hennepin County line. This includes some of the smaller communities between the two towns. ||The largest hailstone was measured at 2.75 inches in diameter and fell near Victoria. Two inch hail was measured at the NWS office. Due to the large hail size and almost a continuous line of storms redeveloping in the same areas, many roofs and cars were damaged. |
| August 2017 | Lightning | Victoria | $200,000 | A home in Chanhassen, Minnesota was severely damaged after a fire broke out in the attic. It was caused by a lightning strike and happened on the 4000 block of Leslie Curve just before 12:30 a.m. LST. Fire officials said the heavy rain made it difficult to put the fire out. No one was hurt. |
| August 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Victoria | $20,000 | A pontoon boat was flipped over and docks were damaged on Lake Minnewashta. In addition, several large trees were blown down. |
| August 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Victoria | $500 | Several large tree branches were blown down around Victoria. |
| August 2025 | Hail | Victoria | - | Hail was continuous for roughly 3 minutes and the average size of the hail was 1 inch in diameter. The largest hail stone was 1.25 inches in diameter. |
| June 2025 | Hail | Victoria | - | A lot of hail up to ping pong size in Victoria. |
| June 2025 | Tornado (EF1) | Victoria | - | The tornado touchdown likely occurred in the northern part of Carver Park Reserve before tracking across portions of Stone Lake and Lake Zumbra. Tree damage occurred along the shores of Lake Zumbra & residences on Zumbra Drive. The most extensive tree damage occurred at Rolling Acres Rd and Highway 7 where numerous trees were uprooted or were broken. The tornado terminated over Lake Minnewashta. The maximum estimated winds were 90 mph. |
| August 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Victoria | - | Tree down and power line down blocking one lane of Hwy 5 near the Arboretum east of Victoria. |
| August 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Victoria | - | Large tree was down in Victoria. |
| August 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Victoria | - | Multiple large tree branches were down. |
| August 2020 | Heavy Rain | Victoria | - | A measured rainfall report of 4.52 inches in Victoria. |
| June 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Victoria | - | A few large branches were blown down. |
| June 2014 | Heavy Rain | Victoria | - | A 24 hour rainfall total of 4.23 inches was reported. |
| May 2012 | Heavy Rain | Victoria | - | A local observer measured 3.18 inches in the last 24 hours. |
| August 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Victoria | - | Multiple tents were blown over at a campground in Carver. |
| August 2009 | Heavy Rain | Victoria | - | The local COOP Observer in Chaska recorded 6.20 inches of rainfall in a six hour period. |
| August 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Victoria | - | Dozens of trees felled in the Lake Schutz area. Some trees fell on houses and sheds. |
| May 2004 | Hail | Victoria | - | Dime sized hail fell at Deer Run Golf Course. |
| August 2025 | Hail | Victoria | - | no account filed |
| August 2025 | Hail | Victoria | - | no account filed |
| July 2019 | Hail | Victoria | - | no account filed |
| June 2016 | Hail | Victoria | - | no account filed |
| June 2016 | Hail | Victoria | - | no account filed |
| May 2012 | Hail | Victoria | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Victoria | - | no account filed |
| September 2005 | Hail | Victoria | - | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Funnel Cloud | Victoria | - | no account filed |
| June 1994 | Hail | Victoria | - | no account filed |
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.
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.
| Photograph | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Andrew Peterson Farmstead | 2.4 miles | 1979 |
 | Wendelin Grimm Farmstead | 2.4 miles | 1974 |
 | Zoar Moravian Church | 4.3 miles | 1980 |
 | Coney Island of the West | 5.2 miles | 1976 |
 | Charles Maiser House | 5.5 miles | 1980 |
 | Mock Cigar Factory and House | 5.5 miles | 1980 |
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 80001981 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. |
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