George Baslington Farmhouse

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

From the record

One of 60 National Register listings published here for Goodhue County · listed in 1980 · category: Building.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Baslington, George, Farmhouse - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. Off US 52, Pine Island, 55992
When was it listed? February 1980
Category. building
Also known as. Rural Goodhue County MRA
Township. Pine Island township
National Register reference number. 80002050 - 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

9 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of George Baslington Farmhouse between 2003 and 2020, burning about 62 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Debris and open burning	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
27 August 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
6 May 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	55 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
29 April 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
12 December 2020	Fireworks	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
5 November 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
15 November 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
22 October 2015	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
20 October 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Goodhue 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 George Baslington Farmhouse: 3 producers, 1 occurrence. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Silica. 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
Goodhue County Sand Deposit No 1	Silica	Occurrence
Betcher Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Deden Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Kyllo Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working recorded in Goodhue County

Storms near this property

1 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pine Island, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 1996: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Pine Island	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Goodhue 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
First Congregational Church of Zumbrota	3.5 miles	1980
Opera Block House	3.8 miles	1980
Pine Island City Hall and Fire Station	3.8 miles	1980
Jacob Bringghold House	3.8 miles	1980
Bringgold, Jacob A. and Mary Finn House	3.8 miles	2014
Zumbrota Covered Bridge	3.9 miles	1975

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 80002050 in Record Group 79.
Goodhue County	All 60 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.