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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
Oronoco School
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. Co. Hwy. 18, Oronoco, 55960
- When was it listed? July 1980
- Category. building
- City. Oronoco city
- National Register reference number. 80004536 - 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
1 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Oronoco School in 1992, burning about 1 acre 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 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31 May 1992 | Smoking | 1.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Storms near this property
47 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Oronoco, the town this property stands in, in 47 storm reports between 1993 and 2026: 33 hail, 12 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 funnel cloud. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2010 | Flash Flood | Oronoco | $7,000,000 | The approach on the north side of the County Road 18 bridge going through Oronoco washed out as the Middle Fork of the Zumbro River flooded. The Lake Shady Dam was also damaged. |
| May 2022 | Hail | Oronoco | $280,000 | Golf ball sized hail was reported west of Oronoco. |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oronoco | $24,000 | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oronoco | $20,000 | no account filed |
| August 2000 | Hail | Oronoco | $15,000 | no account filed |
| July 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oronoco | $15,000 | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Oronoco | $15,000 | no account filed |
| August 2000 | Hail | Oronoco | $14,000 | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Hail | Oronoco | $10,000 | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oronoco | $10,000 | no account filed |
| March 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oronoco | $7,000 | Two 1 foot diameter pine trees were blown down near Oronoco. A shed was also blown across a road and took out some power lines. |
| August 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oronoco | $5,000 | Many large trees were blown down in the city of Oronoco. Damage occurred to the soffit, facia, siding, and garage door of a home. Also, a camper tumbled and was moved from its original location. |
| June 2005 | Hail | Oronoco | $5,000 | no account filed |
| August 2000 | Hail | Oronoco | $5,000 | no account filed |
| August 2006 | Hail | Oronoco | $3,000 | no account filed |
| August 2006 | Hail | Oronoco | $2,000 | no account filed |
| August 2006 | Hail | Oronoco | $1,500 | no account filed |
| August 2006 | Hail | Oronoco | $1,500 | no account filed |
| August 2000 | Hail | Oronoco | $1,500 | no account filed |
| August 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oronoco | $500 | no account filed |
| August 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oronoco | $250 | no account filed |
| April 2026 | Hail | Oronoco | - | The public reported quarter sized hail 2 miles west of Oronoco. |
| March 2025 | Hail | Oronoco | - | The public reported nickel sized hail in Oronoco, Minnesota. |
| July 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oronoco | - | A storm chaser reported whole trees knocked over in Oronoco. |
| July 2023 | Hail | Oronoco | - | Public reported half dollar sized hail near Oronoco. |
| July 2023 | Hail | Oronoco | - | Public reported quarter sized hail near Oronoco. |
| July 2022 | Hail | Oronoco | - | Quarter sized hail was reported in Oronoco. |
| July 2009 | Hail | Oronoco | - | Hail slightly larger than dime size was reported along Highway 52. |
| July 2022 | Hail | Oronoco | - | no account filed |
| March 2017 | Hail | Oronoco | - | no account filed |
| July 2010 | Funnel Cloud | Oronoco | - | no account filed |
| May 2008 | Hail | Oronoco | - | no account filed |
| July 2008 | Hail | Oronoco | - | no account filed |
| July 2006 | Hail | Oronoco | - | no account filed |
| August 2006 | Hail | Oronoco | - | no account filed |
| August 2006 | Hail | Oronoco | - | no account filed |
| August 2006 | Hail | Oronoco | - | no account filed |
| August 2006 | Hail | Oronoco | - | no account filed |
| August 2006 | Hail | Oronoco | - | no account filed |
| August 2006 | Hail | Oronoco | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Oronoco | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Oronoco | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oronoco | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Oronoco | - | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oronoco | - | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Hail | Oronoco | - | no account filed |
| August 1993 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oronoco | - | 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
1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Frank's Ford Bridge | 4.2 miles | 1980 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 80004536 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.