Louis Hultgren House and Sand Pit

Built in 1896. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

From the record

“The Louis Hultgren House and Sand Pit in Kerrick, Minnesota in Pine County, Minnesota, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. In the early 1890s the site was discovered by railroad worker Louis Hultgren, who was born in Sweden in 1863 and immigrated to Pine County in 1888.”
Wikipedia article Louis Hultgren House and Sand Pit, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 22 National Register listings published here for Pine County · listed in 1980 · category: Building · built in 1896.

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 2 buildingss, 1 site as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Hultgren, Louis, House and Sand Pit - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. MN 23, Kerrick, 55756
When was it listed? August 1980
Category. building
Also known as. Pine County MRA
City. Kerrick city
When was it built? 1896
National Register reference number. 80002108 - 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

110 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 110 fires within 5 miles of Louis Hultgren House and Sand Pit between 1992 and 2020, burning about 507 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 11 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
Railroad operations and maintenance	32
Debris and open burning	31
Equipment and vehicle use	13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	12
Arson/incendiarism	11
Recreation and ceremony	5
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Smoking	2
Natural	2

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
23 August 1996	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
23 August 1996	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
23 August 1996	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
23 August 1996	Railroad operations and maintenance	1.0 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
23 August 1996	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
14 August 2011	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
10 August 1998	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
10 August 1998	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Pine County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Louis Hultgren House and Sand Pit: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Silica. 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
	Holtgren Sand Pit	Silica	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Pine County

Storms near this property

4 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kerrick, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 2016 and 2023: 2 hail, 2 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
August 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Kerrick	-	A tree fell onto a cabin with lots of additional tree damage around the property as well.
July 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Kerrick	-	A 10 diameter birch tree was blown down.
July 2023	Hail	Kerrick	-	no account filed
July 2016	Hail	Kerrick	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Pine 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 80002108 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Pine County	All 22 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.