BlockFrom 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
District No. 8 School
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 3 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
- Address. CR 70, Clements, 56293
- When was it listed? August 1980
- Category. building
- Also known as. Redwood County MRA
- Township. New Avon township
- National Register reference number. 80002131 - 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
772 wordsThis property stands in New Avon Township. The History of Redwood County, Minnesota, published 1916 gives that township a chapter of its own.
The chapter covers the township.
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 New Avon Township - 772 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.
Storms near this property
11 since 1998Regional 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 |
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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Clements State Bank Building | 4.9 miles | 1980 |
| Commercial Hotel | 5.3 miles | 1980 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 80002131 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.