Pine Island City Hall and Fire Station

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

From the record

“The Pine Island City Hall and Fire Station, at Main and 3rd Streets in Pine Island, Minnesota, United States, also known as the Pine Island City Hall, was built in 1909. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.”
Wikipedia article Pine Island City Hall and Fire Station, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 60 National Register listings published here for Goodhue 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 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. Main and 3rd Sts., Pine Island, 55963
When was it listed? February 1980
Category. building
Also known as. Rural Goodhue County MRA
City. Pine Island city
National Register reference number. 80002053 - 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.

The ground it stands on

4,149 words

The chapter on Pine Island City in History of Goodhue County, Including a Sketch of the Territory and State of Minnesota; Together with an Account of the Early French Discoveries, Indian Massacres, the Part Borne by Minnesota's Patriots in the War of the Great Rebellion, and a Full and Complete History of the County from the Time of Its Occupancy by Swiss Missionaries in 1838. Pioneer Incidents, Biographical Sketches of Early and Prominent Settlers and Representative Men, and of Its Cities, Towns, Churches, Schools, Secret Societies, Etc, published 1878 names Pine Island. This is what it says, exactly as the scans read.

This paper was established August 30, 1878, by the "Pine Island News Company." A. M. Hutchinson, editor, It is a newsy sheet, well edited and popular for the time it has been in existence. The paper is an eight column folio sheet, typographically neat, and it is well filled with local and general information. It starts off with a liberal advertising patronage ; is issued on Friday of each week.

Passage source: History of Goodhue County, Including a Sketch of the Territory and State of Minnesota; Together with an Account of the Early French Discoveries, Indian Massacres, the Part Borne by Minnesota's Patriots in the War of the Great Rebellion, and a Full and Complete History of the County from the Time of Its Occupancy by Swiss Missionaries in 1838. Pioneer Incidents, Biographical Sketches of Early and Prominent Settlers and Representative Men, and of Its Cities, Towns, Churches, Schools, Secret Societies, Etc, published 1878.

The first settlement was made in Roscoe in 1854 by James Haggard and W. Wilson, both locating claims in section 5. Wilson subsequently returned to his home in the East, but Haggard remained until his shanty was burned, when he returned to Brown county where he still resides. Fletcher Hagler numbers among those of the earliest pioneers of the town, having selected his claim in 1855 on the site of ground where the village of Roscoe now stands, and where he erected the first frame house in this township. He was also the first postmaster appointed, and from this pioneer record removed to Pine Island, where he was enrolled among the number of early pilgrims in that township.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Pine Island City - 4,149 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.

Fires near this property

1 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Pine Island City Hall and Fire Station in 2016, burning under an acre 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	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
15 November 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire 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
Opera Block House	under 500 feet	1980
Jacob Bringghold House	0.2 miles	1980
Bringgold, Jacob A. and Mary Finn House	0.2 miles	2014
George Baslington Farmhouse	3.8 miles	1980
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory	6.3 miles	1980
First Congregational Church of Zumbrota	6.4 miles	1980

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 80002053 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
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.
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.