Ogilvie Watertower

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

From the record

“The Ogilvie Watertower is a historic water tower in Ogilvie, Minnesota, United States, built in 1918. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980 for having local significance in the themes of engineering and social history.”
Wikipedia article Ogilvie Watertower, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 6 National Register listings published here for Kanabec County · listed in 1980 · category: Structure.

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 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. Anderson St., Ogilvie, 56358
When was it listed? August 1980
Category. structure
Also known as. Kanabec County MRA
City. Ogilvie city
National Register reference number. 80002087 - 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

213 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 213 fires within 5 miles of Ogilvie Watertower between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,188 acres in total. None started naturally. 85 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
Arson/incendiarism	85
Debris and open burning	75
Equipment and vehicle use	27
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	12
Smoking	8
Recreation and ceremony	5
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 September 2000	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
23 August 2003	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
1 August 2000	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
9 July 2001	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
6 July 2006	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
6 July 2006	Debris and open burning	7.0 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
5 July 2013	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
5 July 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Kanabec County

Storms near this property

27 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ogilvie, the town this property stands in, in 27 storm reports between 1999 and 2022: 13 hail, 11 thunderstorm wind, 2 heavy rain, 1 flash flood. 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
July 2018	Flash Flood	Ogilvie	$250,000	Several roads were closed around Mora due to high running water and stranded cars. A few inches of flowing water covered Highway 3, near the intersection of Highway 65, north of Mora. Plus, the county sheriff officials reported that nearly all gravel roads in Kanabec County suffered damage from flood waters. The Fish Lake Resort that is on south side of the lake was flood damage due to the rising lake level. Trailers in the resort had flood damage as water levels impacted the park.
July 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Ogilvie	$50,000	There was a large swath of trees and power lines blown down from north of Ogilvie, on the Mille Lacs, and Kanabec County line, southeast to north of Grasston. There was also damage that occurred around Mora.
July 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Ogilvie	$25,000	An area of straight-line winds blew across portions of Kanabec County between Ogilvie and Grass Lake Township where numerous trees were uprooted and power lines were downed.
May 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Ogilvie	$500	Several pieces of a metal shed were blown down.
August 2020	Hail	Ogilvie	-	There was a measured hailstone of 1 inch in diameter south of Ogilvie. Local radar showed a wider area of higher returns west and east of Ogilvie where larger hail likely fell. There was measured hailstone of 1.5 inches in southern Pine County as the storm moved east of Kanabec County.
August 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Ogilvie	-	A few large trees were uprooted between Ogilvie and Mora along Highway 23.
August 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Ogilvie	-	Several large trees were blown down northwest of Mora. A trained spotter had one of his neighbors 18 diameter white ash fall on his property.
May 2012	Heavy Rain	Ogilvie	-	A local observer measured 3.60 inches in the last 24 hours.
May 2012	Heavy Rain	Ogilvie	-	A local observer measured 4.10 inches in the last 24 hours.
July 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Ogilvie	-	Five pine trees downed up to 1.5 feet in diameter. Some of the trees toppled onto power lines.
July 2008	Hail	Ogilvie	-	Spotter also estimated winds to be greater then 50 mph.
September 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Ogilvie	-	Many trees down; some were 18 inches in diameter. Minor structural damage to several homes in Mora.
July 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Ogilvie	-	Roof ripped off barn at 1806 Delta Street. An outbuilding on this property was also damaged. The cover of a hot tub was shredded. The strong winds also lifted a calf out of its pen and flung it into a pasture. Scattered trees were also downed.
July 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Ogilvie	-	Tree down.
September 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Ogilvie	-	Roof of high school partially ripped off.
June 2001	Hail	Ogilvie	-	Hail broke all windows in home.
July 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Ogilvie	-	Hay bales blown across road.
May 2022	Hail	Ogilvie	-	no account filed
September 2021	Hail	Ogilvie	-	no account filed
July 2014	Hail	Ogilvie	-	no account filed
July 2014	Hail	Ogilvie	-	no account filed
August 2012	Hail	Ogilvie	-	no account filed
July 2011	Hail	Ogilvie	-	no account filed
May 2001	Hail	Ogilvie	-	no account filed
July 2000	Hail	Ogilvie	-	no account filed
July 2000	Hail	Ogilvie	-	no account filed
July 1999	Hail	Ogilvie	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Kanabec 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

5 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
Ann River Logging Company Farm	4.9 miles	1980
Coin School	6.5 miles	2025
C. E. Williams House	7.2 miles	1980
Kanabec County Courthouse	7.2 miles	1977
Zetterberg Company	7.4 miles	1980

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 80002087 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Kanabec County	All 6 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.