BlockFrom the record
One of 8 National Register listings published here for Lincoln County · listed in 1980 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Lincoln County Fairgrounds
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.
The listing
- Address. Strong and Marsh Sts., Tyler, 56178
- When was it listed? December 1980
- Category. building
- Also known as. Lincoln County MRA
- City. Tyler city
- National Register reference number. 80002088 - 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.
Storms near this property
19 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tyler, the town this property stands in, in 19 storm reports between 1993 and 2022: 13 hail, 3 tornado, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 heavy rain. 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 1993 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tyler | $500,000 | Thunderstorm winds blew down power lines and damaged many homes causing an estimated $200,000 dollars damage. |
| July 2011 | Tornado (EF2) | Tyler | $100,000 | A tornado destroyed several outbuildings and storage buildings, took the roofs off several other structures, and otherwise damaged the siding and roofs of several structures including some homes. Widespread tree damage included several trees blown down and debarking at tree tops. |
| May 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tyler | $5,000 | no account filed |
| August 2014 | Heavy Rain | Tyler | - | Rainfall of 2.50 inches was accompanied by nickel size hail. |
| August 2014 | Hail | Tyler | - | Hail was accompanied by heavy rain. |
| June 2013 | Hail | Tyler | - | Large hail caused an unknown amount of damage to vehicles and windows. |
| April 2012 | Hail | Tyler | - | Large hail whitened the ground. |
| July 2002 | Hail | Tyler | - | Large hail caused damage to vehicles, windows, and crops. The amount of damage was not known. |
| June 2001 | Tornado (F0) | Tyler | - | A brief tornado caused no reported damage or injuries. |
| June 2001 | Tornado (F0) | Tyler | - | A brief tornado caused no reported damage or injuries. |
| July 1995 | Hail | Tyler | - | Hail of unknown size fell for 45 minutes and flattened crops north of Tyler near the east end of Lake Benton. Damage was undetermined due to unknown recovery of crops and because of concurrent damage due to strong thunderstorm Winds. |
| May 2022 | Hail | Tyler | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Hail | Tyler | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Hail | Tyler | - | no account filed |
| August 2004 | Hail | Tyler | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Hail | Tyler | - | no account filed |
| August 2002 | Hail | Tyler | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Tyler | - | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Hail | Tyler | - | 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
5 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tyler Public School | 0.2 miles | 1980 | |
 | Danebod | 1.0 miles | 1975 |
| Lake Benton Opera House and Kimball Building (Boundary Increase) | 7.5 miles | 1982 | |
| Lake Benton Opera House | 7.5 miles | 1977 | |
| Ernst Osbeck House | 7.5 miles | 1980 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 80002088 in Record Group 79. |
| Lincoln County | All 8 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.
- 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.