BlockFrom the record
One of 13 National Register listings published here for Nobles County · listed in 1980 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Sioux City and St. Paul Railroad Section 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. Spencer and 1st Sts., Dundee, 56131
- When was it listed? May 1980
- Category. building
- Also known as. Nobles County MRA
- City. Dundee city
- National Register reference number. 80002096 - 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
1 since 2020Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Sioux City and St. Paul Railroad Section House in 2020, burning about 2 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 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 March 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Mines and quarries near this property
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Sioux City and St. Paul Railroad Section House: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Christenson Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this property
10 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dundee, the town this property stands in, in 10 storm reports between 1996 and 2015: 7 hail, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dundee | $100,000 | Thunderstorm winds blew the roof off a building, severely buckled an elevator bin, and caused tree damage. |
| August 2015 | Heavy Rain | Dundee | - | Heavy rainfall of 5 inches was reported. |
| June 2003 | Hail | Dundee | - | Large hail caused severe damage to corn and soybean crops in the area. The amount of crop damage was not known. |
| June 2010 | Hail | Dundee | - | no account filed |
| July 2009 | Hail | Dundee | - | no account filed |
| April 2001 | Hail | Dundee | - | no account filed |
| April 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dundee | - | no account filed |
| October 1998 | Hail | Dundee | - | no account filed |
| October 1998 | Hail | Dundee | - | no account filed |
| July 1996 | Hail | Dundee | - | 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.
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 80002096 in Record Group 79. |
| Nobles County | All 13 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.