BlockFrom the record
One of 17 National Register listings published here for Chisago County · listed in 1980 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Grant House
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 4th St. and Bremer, Rush City, 55069
- When was it listed? July 1980
- Category. building
- Also known as. Chisago County MRA
- City. Rush City city
- National Register reference number. 80002005 - 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
79 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 79 fires within 5 miles of Grant House between 1992 and 2020, burning about 348 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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 | 30 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 19 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 13 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 8 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 4 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Other causes | 1 |
| Fireworks | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 September 1998 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Saint Croix National Scenic River | MCGUIRE |
| 15 August 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 7.5 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 11 August 2000 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 7 July 2006 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 4 July 2000 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 26 July 2006 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.5 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 15 July 2006 | Arson/incendiarism | 6.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 7 June 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Storms near this property
20 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rush City, the town this property stands in, in 20 storm reports between 1994 and 2022: 9 hail, 8 thunderstorm wind, 3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2001 | Hail | Rush City | $400,000 | Ninety percent of homes in town received damage. Hundreds of broken windows. Siding, roofs and vehicles damaged by wind driven hail. |
| June 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rush City | $60,000 | Roof ripped off pole barn. Siding torn from garage, and then blown onto truck. Trees toppled on to two pickup trucks. |
| July 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rush City | - | A few trees were blown down in Rush City, along Highway 61. |
| June 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rush City | - | A large tree was blown down near 525th and Fairfield Avenue in Rush City. |
| June 2010 | Tornado (EF0) | Rush City | - | A tornado touched down in extreme northern Chisago County, uprooting trees and breaking large branches. It then moved into Pine County, where it intensified and produced EF-2 damage, and eventually tracked into Burnett County, Wisconsin. |
| July 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rush City | - | A few trees were uprooted near Rush City, Minnesota. |
| July 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rush City | - | Scattered trees and power lines toppled. |
| July 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rush City | - | Few trees felled. |
| June 2005 | Tornado (F0) | Rush City | - | A citizen videotaped a tornado that touched down just south of the Pine County line near the intersection of River Road and 540th Street in a heavily wooded area. The tornado downed some trees and pushed other trees over at an angle in this location before crossing the border into Pine County. |
| May 2004 | Tornado (F0) | Rush City | - | A weak tornado briefly touched down in an open field. |
| May 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rush City | - | A shed and numerous trees were downed. |
| July 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rush City | - | Trees down. Boats blown into each other on Rush Lake. |
| May 2022 | Hail | Rush City | - | no account filed |
| April 2015 | Hail | Rush City | - | no account filed |
| June 2010 | Hail | Rush City | - | no account filed |
| April 2007 | Hail | Rush City | - | no account filed |
| April 2004 | Hail | Rush City | - | no account filed |
| April 2004 | Hail | Rush City | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Rush City | - | no account filed |
| May 1994 | Hail | Rush City | - | no account filed |
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
2 within 8 milesOther 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | J. C. Carlson House | 0.1 miles | 1980 |
 | Sayer House | 6.8 miles | 1980 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 80002005 in Record Group 79. |
| 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.