Center City Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

From the record

“Center City Historic District is a grouping of 19 homes and one church located along the east side of Summit Avenue situated on a hill overlooking North Center Lake in Center City, Minnesota, United States. It was listed as a historic district on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.”
Wikipedia article Center City Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 17 National Register listings published here for Chisago County · listed in 1980 · category: District.

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 19 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. Summit Ave., Center City, 55012
When was it listed? July 1980
Category. district
Also known as. Chisago County MRA
Township. Chisago Lake township
National Register reference number. 80001996 - 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

42 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 42 fires within 5 miles of Center City Historic District between 1993 and 2020, burning about 184 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 9 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
Debris and open burning	18
Arson/incendiarism	9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Recreation and ceremony	2
Smoking	2
Natural	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
7 May 2020	Smoking	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
4 May 1997	Natural	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
4 May 1996	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
20 May 2019	Debris and open burning	20 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
14 May 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
8 April 2019	Debris and open burning	2.3 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
6 April 1994	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
6 April 1993	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Chisago County

Storms near this property

9 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Center City, the town this property stands in, in 9 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 5 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 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
September 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Center City	-	Some trees were blown down.
August 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Center City	-	There was a report of 4 to 6 inch branches and trees down in Center City.
May 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Center City	-	A number of trees and power lines were downed, with some trees and large branches landing on houses.
August 2007	Hail	Center City	-	Hail occurred near Chisago Lake Lutheran Church.
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Center City	-	Trees and power lines were downed.
July 1999	Tornado (F0)	Center City	-	Tornado touched down in open field.
July 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Center City	-	A few windows were damaged.
May 2024	Hail	Center City	-	no account filed
September 2014	Hail	Center City	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Chisago 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
Gustaf Anderson House	1.3 miles	1980
Charles A. Victor House	1.6 miles	1980
Frank A. Larson House	1.7 miles	1980
Franconia Historic District	6.0 miles	1980
Paul Munch House	6.2 miles	1976
Moody Barn	6.9 miles	1980

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 80001996 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Chisago County	All 17 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.