Clements State Bank Building

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

From the record

One of 23 National Register listings published here for Redwood County · listed in 1980 · category: Building.

Sources: 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. 1st and Pine Sts., Clements, 56224
When was it listed? August 1980
Category. building
Also known as. Redwood County MRA
Township. Three Lakes township
National Register reference number. 80002130 - 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

522 words

The chapter on Three Lakes Township in The History of Redwood County, Minnesota, published 1916 names Clements. This is what it says, exactly as the scans read.

Three Lakes township is located in the east-central part of Redwood county, and embraces Congressional township 111-35. It is bounded on the north by Paxton, on the east by Morgan, on the south by Sundown and on the west by New Avon. The Evan-Marshall branch of the Chicago and Northwestern crosses it in the southern part; and the Sleepy Eye-Redwood Falls branch of the same road passes through the northeast corner. The surface is smooth prairie land. There are two lakes of fairly good size in this township. The only village is Clements. The trading centers are Morgan and Redwood Falls, in Redwood county, and Springfield in Brown county. There are four school houses. The predominating nationality is German, with quite a few Bohemians.

Passage source: The History of Redwood County, Minnesota, published 1916.

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 Three Lakes Township - 522 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.

Storms near this property

11 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Clements, the town this property stands in, in 11 storm reports between 1998 and 2019: 8 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 tornado. 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 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Clements	$10,000	Several large trees were uprooted north of Springfield, Minnesota. Based on photos, some damage occurred to a farm with structural damage to siding, and garage. In addition, corn was stripped and beans were flattened.
August 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Clements	$10,000	Several large trees were blown down from near Clements, to one mile north of Clements, including one tree that fell on a car.
June 2019	Hail	Clements	-	The Farm Service Agency office for Redwood County indicated a one to three mile wide swath of hail as large as golf balls fell across southeastern Redwood County, with many crops heavily damaged or destroyed. Time estimated based on radar.
June 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Clements	-	Scattered trees and power lines were blown down at County Road 4 and 13.
June 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Clements	-	Three to four inch diameter tree branch felled.
June 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Clements	-	Tin roof peeled back on building at Clements lumber. Some trees and branches also reported down in Clements. As reported by Sanborn Sentinel newspaper.
April 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Clements	-	Shingles off roof.
June 1998	Tornado (F1)	Clements	-	5 barns damaged. One roof ripped from a barn.
July 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Clements	-	Trees blown onto houses and vehicles. Estimated windspeed.
July 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Clements	-	Power lines down. Estimated windspeed.
August 2009	Hail	Clements	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Redwood 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

2 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.

Photograph	Property	Distance	Listed
	District No. 8 School	4.9 miles	1980
	Gilfillan	6.3 miles	1980

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 80002130 in Record Group 79.
Redwood County	All 23 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.