BlockFrom the record
One of 11 National Register listings published here for Faribault County · listed in 1980 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Walters Jail
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 3rd and Main Sts., Walters, 56097
- When was it listed? May 1980
- Category. building
- Also known as. Faribault County MRA
- Township. Foster township
- National Register reference number. 80004262 - 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
1,434 wordsThis property stands in Foster Township. The History of Faribault County, Minnesota : from Its First Settlement to the Close of the Year 1879 : the Story of the Pioneers, published 1896 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 Foster Township - 1,434 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.
Mines and quarries near this property
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Walters Jail: 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kluender Pit & Mill | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this property
16 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Walters, the town this property stands in, in 16 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 5 tornado, 5 hail, 3 funnel cloud, 3 thunderstorm wind. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2009 | Tornado (EF0) | Walters | $1,000 | Tornado moved through a corn field, occasionally touching down, then blew the lids off the top of two grain bins, crossed Highway 22, and dissipated in a corn field. |
| June 2025 | Tornado (EF0) | Walters | - | A tornado was caught on video in Faribault County, just north of Interstate 90. It moved across fields before moving into Freeborn County, where it hit some trees. Satellite imagery confirmed the tornado path. Based on the tree damage, the maximum wind speed was estimated at 80 mph. |
| June 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Walters | - | Several trees were knocked down or broken. |
| July 2012 | Hail | Walters | - | Some crop damage was reported with this hail storm. |
| June 2010 | Tornado (EF0) | Walters | - | A brief tornado moved across open fields and into Freeborn County. Tornado was recorded on video. |
| June 2009 | Funnel Cloud | Walters | - | Funnel was filmed by two storm chasers. |
| June 2009 | Tornado (EF0) | Walters | - | Brief touchdown in open field for less than one minute. Photo and multiple eyewitnesses. |
| May 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Walters | - | Roof torn off shed. Estimated wind speed. |
| August 1999 | Tornado (F0) | Walters | - | Touchdown in open field near I-90 and County Road 31. |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Walters | - | City garage blown down. Trees and power lines down. Also reported in Kiester. Estimated windspeed. |
| May 2022 | Funnel Cloud | Walters | - | no account filed |
| July 2012 | Hail | Walters | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Walters | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Walters | - | no account filed |
| May 2000 | Hail | Walters | - | no account filed |
| July 1997 | Funnel Cloud | Walters | - | 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.
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 80004262 in Record Group 79. |
| Faribault County | All 11 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.
- 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.