Femco Farm No. 2

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

From the record

“The Femco Farms consisted of five farm properties established in Wilkin County, Minnesota, United States, in the 1920s and 1930s to experiment with livestock breeding and agricultural diversification. Murphy, publisher of the Minneapolis Tribune newspaper, to demonstrate improved techniques like crop rotation that could benefit farmers.”
Wikipedia article Femco Farms, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 7 National Register listings published here for Wilkin County · listed in 1980 · category: Building.

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 9 buildingss, 3 sitess as contributing to the listing.
Address. CR 153, Kent, 56553
When was it listed? July 1980
Category. building
Also known as. Wilkin County MRA
Township. Roberts township
National Register reference number. 80002184 - 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.

Storms near this property

26 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kent, the town this property stands in, in 26 storm reports between 1997 and 2022: 11 hail, 5 flash flood, 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 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 2008	Flash Flood	Kent	$20,000	U.S. Highway 75 was flooded at the railroad underpass near Kent.
April 2012	Tornado (EF0)	Kent	$15,000	This tornado touched down near a farmstead and then tracked intermittently to the east for about a half mile. The tornado tore all of the tin roofing and roof panels from an open faced pole shed. It also tore down several tree limbs in the farmyard and tossed a trampoline on top of the garage. Peak winds were estimated at 80 mph.
June 2013	Flash Flood	Kent	$5,000	Water was reported over U. S. Highway 75 near Kent.
July 2008	Hail	Kent	$5,000	no account filed
May 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Kent	$200	Several trees were downed by the strong wind.
April 2022	Funnel Cloud	Kent	-	A brief funnel was reported to the Wilkin County S.O. as being overhead the spotters location. Local storm chasers confirmed that it was short lived and did not touch down.
June 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Kent	-	Minnesota DOT RWIS station measured this peak wind gust.
July 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Kent	-	Peak wind gust of 62 mph measured on a personal weather station.
June 2017	Hail	Kent	-	A few dime to quarter sized hail fell.
August 2016	Hail	Kent	-	A few dime to nickel sized hail fell along with very heavy rain.
August 2016	Hail	Kent	-	Marble to quarter sized hail fell across southern Mitchell Township along with very heavy rain and strong winds.
August 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Kent	-	Several sections of corn, soybeans, and other crops were flattened by damaging winds across Mitchell Township. Most shelterbelts had large tree limbs broken down or an occasional tree snapped near ground level. Peak winds were estimated in excess of 75 mph.
June 2009	Heavy Rain	Kent	-	There were several reports of 3.50 to 4 inches of rain over northern Wilkin County, in an area bounded roughly from Barnesville to Rothsay to Fergus Falls to Abercrombie. Some roads were under water.
April 2007	Flash Flood	Kent	-	Water was reported over U.S. Highway 75 near Kent.
August 2005	Flash Flood	Kent	-	Numerous township roads were under water from the heavy rain.
May 2004	Tornado (F0)	Kent	-	A brief touchdown occurred near highway 3.
June 2003	Flash Flood	Kent	-	Water filled the underpass on Highway 75 near Kent.
July 1998	Hail	Kent	-	The large hail damaged a few vehicles and smashed some house windows.
August 2016	Hail	Kent	-	no account filed
May 2008	Flood	Kent	-	no account filed
April 2007	Flood	Kent	-	no account filed
June 2005	Hail	Kent	-	no account filed
June 2003	Hail	Kent	-	no account filed
August 2001	Hail	Kent	-	no account filed
July 1998	Hail	Kent	-	no account filed
August 1997	Hail	Kent	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Wilkin 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 80002184 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Wilkin County	All 7 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.