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One of 26 National Register listings published here for Olmsted County · listed in 1980 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
John G. Bush House
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.
- Listed as. Bush, John G., House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
- Address. Center St., Dover, 55929
- When was it listed? July 1980
- Category. building
- Township. Dover township
- National Register reference number. 80004531 - 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
9 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of John G. Bush House between 1992 and 2008, burning about 4 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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 |
|---|---|
| Smoking | 5 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 July 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 3 July 1996 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 27 June 2002 | Smoking | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 4 May 1997 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 25 May 1992 | Smoking | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 28 April 1998 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 26 April 2000 | Smoking | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 17 April 2007 | Smoking | 2.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Storms near this property
20 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dover, the town this property stands in, in 20 storm reports between 1998 and 2017: 10 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 2 heavy rain, 1 flash 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dover | $65,000 | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dover | $35,000 | no account filed |
| September 2000 | Hail | Dover | $22,000 | no account filed |
| September 2000 | Hail | Dover | $20,000 | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dover | $10,000 | no account filed |
| September 2000 | Hail | Dover | $8,500 | no account filed |
| June 2017 | Tornado (EF0) | Dover | $5,000 | An EF-0 tornado touched down north of Dover and then traveled southeast for about a half mile. The tornado damaged some corn and trees. |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dover | $4,000 | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Dover | $1,500 | no account filed |
| September 2000 | Hail | Dover | $1,500 | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dover | $1,000 | no account filed |
| August 1999 | Flash Flood | Dover | $1,000 | no account filed |
| May 2015 | Hail | Dover | - | Quarter sized hail fell near Dover. |
| May 2013 | Heavy Rain | Dover | - | The automated mesonet reporting equipment in Dover reported 2.52 inches of rain. |
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dover | - | Spotters in Dover measured a thunderstorm wind gust of 60 mph. |
| August 2010 | Heavy Rain | Dover | - | Heavy rain fell across the area, with 3.30 inches of rain measured 1 mile east of Dover. In the same time frame, 2.20 inches of rain fell at Chester Woods Park, located 2 miles east of Chester. |
| May 2008 | Hail | Dover | - | Penny size hail was reported by a broadcast media employee in Dover. |
| July 2008 | Hail | Dover | - | no account filed |
| July 2008 | Hail | Dover | - | no account filed |
| March 2005 | Hail | Dover | - | 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
3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Christoph Krause Farmstead | 1.1 miles | 1980 | |
 | Eyota Farmers Cooperative Creamery Association | 4.6 miles | 1980 |
 | Coan House | 4.9 miles | 1980 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 80004531 in Record Group 79. |
| Olmsted County | All 26 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.
- 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.