Herbert M. Fox House

Built in 1876. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

From the record

“Fox House is a pioneer farmhouse in Becker, Minnesota, United States. It was built in 1876 with an unusual construction method using load-bearing vertical planks rather than wall studs.”
Wikipedia article Herbert M. Fox House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 5 National Register listings published here for Sherburne County · listed in 1980 · category: Building · built in 1876.

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 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Fox, Herbert M., House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 10775 27th Ave SE, Becker, 55308
When was it listed? April 1980
Category. building
City. Becker city
When was it built? 1876
National Register reference number. 80002175 - 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

138 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 138 fires within 5 miles of Herbert M. Fox House between 1992 and 2020, burning about 276 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 5 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
Debris and open burning	73
Equipment and vehicle use	24
Railroad operations and maintenance	17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	11
Arson/incendiarism	5
Recreation and ceremony	3
Smoking	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Natural	1
Fireworks	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
9 September 1998	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
24 September 1993	Equipment and vehicle use	3.0 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
6 August 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
30 August 2003	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
27 August 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
24 August 2000	Debris and open burning	1.5 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
16 August 1998	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
7 July 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Sherburne 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 Herbert M. Fox House: 1 producer. All of them still produce. 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
	Berg Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Sherburne County

Storms near this property

36 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Becker, the town this property stands in, in 36 storm reports between 1999 and 2026: 21 hail, 10 thunderstorm wind, 3 funnel cloud, 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
July 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Becker	$250,000	Several large 13-15 inch diameter trees were uprooted near Becker, Minnesota. In addition, a farm irrigation system was destroyed.
July 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Becker	$15,000	Scattered trees down, some on cars. Roof was peeled off a pole barn.
August 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Becker	$7,000	Roof partially peeled off business.
July 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Becker	-	Report from Sheriffs dispatch of a tree down along a road in Becker Township.
July 2023	Funnel Cloud	Becker	-	A storm chaser reported a brief funnel cloud.
July 2023	Hail	Becker	-	Quarter to half dollar size hail via picture on Twitter.
May 2022	Hail	Becker	-	There was a social media picture of 2 inch hail.
May 2022	Hail	Becker	-	There was a social media picture of 2 inch hail.
July 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Becker	-	Numerous trees were blown down, including one blown down on a house.
June 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Becker	-	A few trees were snapped or split in half.
March 2017	Hail	Becker	-	Large hail was reported northeast of Becker. Almost all of the hail was dime or smaller.
July 2016	Heavy Rain	Becker	-	A trained spotter measured 3.25 inches of rain near Becker.
July 2008	Tornado (EF0)	Becker	-	The tornado touched down approximately 2.5 miles Southeast of downtown Becker, near the intersection of Highway 10 and 137th Street. It tracked East-Northeast for four miles. Damage included: broken trees, destroying a few sheds and causing minor house damage. The tornado dissipated just West of Eagle Lake, or about 3.5 miles North of Big Lake. In addition, just to the South of the tornado track, there was some straight line wind damage as well. This occurred most likely from a rear flank downdraft that accompanied the tornado.
July 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Becker	-	Trees toppled over road.
September 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Becker	-	Roof off shed. Highway signs down. Numerous trees down.
September 2005	Hail	Becker	-	Roof damage to a number of houses. Two air conditioning units on a school were damaged by the hail.
June 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Becker	-	Large branches severed. Estimated windspeed.
April 2026	Hail	Becker	-	no account filed
July 2024	Hail	Becker	-	no account filed
August 2024	Hail	Becker	-	no account filed
May 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Becker	-	no account filed
July 2019	Hail	Becker	-	no account filed
May 2018	Hail	Becker	-	no account filed
June 2015	Hail	Becker	-	no account filed
August 2010	Funnel Cloud	Becker	-	no account filed
September 2007	Hail	Becker	-	no account filed
April 2007	Hail	Becker	-	no account filed
August 2006	Hail	Becker	-	no account filed
June 2005	Hail	Becker	-	no account filed
April 2004	Funnel Cloud	Becker	-	no account filed
May 2004	Hail	Becker	-	no account filed
April 2004	Hail	Becker	-	no account filed
April 2004	Hail	Becker	-	no account filed
July 2003	Hail	Becker	-	no account filed
June 1999	Hail	Becker	-	no account filed
June 1999	Hail	Becker	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sherburne 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 80002175 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Sherburne County	All 5 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.