Jordan Historic District

Built in 1860. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

From the record

“The Jordan Historic District is a historic business district in Jordan, Minnesota, United States. It consists of 14 contributing properties mostly built between 1865 and 1880.”
Wikipedia article Jordan Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 18 National Register listings published here for Scott County · listed in 1980 · category: District · built in 1860.

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 12 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. Water St. and S. Broadway, Jordan, 55352
When was it listed? April 1980
Category. district
Also known as. Scott County MRA
City. Jordan city
When was it built? 1860
National Register reference number. 80002163 - 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

21 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Jordan Historic District between 1995 and 2015, burning about 8 acres in total. None started naturally. 6 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
Recreation and ceremony	14
Arson/incendiarism	6
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
8 September 1995	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge	BOARDWALK2
1 September 1995	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge	BOARDWALK1
21 August 2008	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge	RAPIDS
12 August 2004	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge	RAPIDS LAKE 1
26 July 2001	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge	BPPIER
1 July 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge	DOCK
8 June 2002	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge	BOARDWALK
8 June 2002	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge	OVERLOOK

Every fire recorded in Scott 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 Jordan Historic District: 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
	Minnesota Quartz Co.	Silica	Past Producer	Sandstone

Every working recorded in Scott County

Storms near this property

38 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Jordan, the town this property stands in, in 38 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 17 hail, 12 thunderstorm wind, 5 heavy rain, 2 flood. 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
March 2007	Flood	Jordan	$900,000	High water from an ice jam along the Minnesota River undermined a railroad bridge over a slough near Gifford Lake, northeast of Jordan. Five boxcars fell when the bridge collapsed.
July 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Jordan	$35,000	A large tree fell on a mobile home in the west part of Jordan, Minnesota.
July 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Jordan	$5,000	A large tree branch broke off and landed on a vehicle. There was considerable damage to the car.
June 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Jordan	$5,000	Roof damage occurred to a home southwest of Jordan, along with numerous trees blown down.
July 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Jordan	-	Report of large tree down on structure in the city of Jordan.
August 2021	Heavy Rain	Jordan	-	A measured rainfall amount of 2.82 inches occurred with this storm.
July 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Jordan	-	A large tree was blown down in Jordan. Minor damage was reported.
June 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Jordan	-	In the city of Jordan, a tree and several large tree branches blew down in Lagoon Park.
August 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Jordan	-	Several power lines were blown down in Jordan.
June 2014	Heavy Rain	Jordan	-	A 48 hour rainfall total of 4.10 inches was reported.
May 2014	Hail	Jordan	-	Most of the hail that fell was the size of dimes and nickels.
May 2012	Heavy Rain	Jordan	-	An observer in Jordon, Minnesota, measured 2.98 inches of rainfall over the past 24 hours.
June 2012	Heavy Rain	Jordan	-	An observer measured 3.12 inches of rainfall in the last 24 hours.
July 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Jordan	-	A two foot diameter tree fell on a home near Jordon, Minnesota.
March 2010	Flood	Jordan	-	An ice jam formed along the Sand Creek, south of 173rd Street, and west of Highway 169 in Jordan.
August 2009	Heavy Rain	Jordan	-	A trained spotter measured 4.00 inches of rainfall overnight.
June 2006	Flash Flood	Jordan	-	Localized flooding within the city limits.
September 2005	Funnel Cloud	Jordan	-	A funnel cloud was reported by law enforcement.
August 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Jordan	-	Mobile home damaged.
July 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Jordan	-	Strong thunderstorm winds damaged several buildings near Jordan.
August 2013	Hail	Jordan	-	no account filed
May 2012	Hail	Jordan	-	no account filed
August 2007	Hail	Jordan	-	no account filed
June 2007	Hail	Jordan	-	no account filed
June 2007	Hail	Jordan	-	no account filed
June 2006	Hail	Jordan	-	no account filed
August 2006	Hail	Jordan	-	no account filed
May 2004	Hail	Jordan	-	no account filed
April 2002	Hail	Jordan	-	no account filed
September 2002	Hail	Jordan	-	no account filed
May 2001	Hail	Jordan	-	no account filed
June 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Jordan	-	no account filed
May 1998	Hail	Jordan	-	no account filed
July 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Jordan	-	no account filed
August 1997	Hail	Jordan	-	no account filed
July 1997	Hail	Jordan	-	no account filed
July 1997	Hail	Jordan	-	no account filed
July 1997	Hail	Jordan	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Scott 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

6 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Jordan Brewery Ruins	0.1 miles	1980
Foss and Wells House	0.6 miles	1980
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs Company	2.0 miles	1980
Abraham Bisson House	4.1 miles	1980
St. Mary's Church of the Purification-Catholic	5.6 miles	1980
Episcopal Church of the Transfiguration	7.3 miles	1980

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 80002163 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Scott County	All 18 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.