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One of 36 National Register listings published here for Fillmore County · listed in 1982 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
William Strong House
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
- Listed as. Strong, William, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
- Address. 508 N. Huron Ave., Spring Valley, 55975
- When was it listed? April 1982
- Category. building
- Also known as. Fillmore County MRA
- City. Spring Valley city
- National Register reference number. 82002953 - 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
15 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of William Strong House between 1993 and 2020, burning about 36 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 |
|---|---|
| Equipment and vehicle use | 5 |
| Smoking | 4 |
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 September 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 17 August 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 17 August 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 4 July 2020 | Fireworks | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 9 May 1993 | Smoking | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 16 May 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 25 April 2001 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 22 April 1996 | Smoking | 3.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 15 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of William Strong House: 9 past producers, 5 prospects, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bly Quarry & Mill | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Brehmer Mine | Iron | Past Producer | ||
| Churchill Reserve Mine | Iron | Prospect | ||
| Cooper Reserve | Iron | Prospect | ||
| Eisenman Mine | Iron | Past Producer | ||
| Hallie Bly Mine | Iron | Past Producer | ||
| Kunnert Mine Reserve No 1 | Iron | Prospect | ||
| O Kunnert Mine Reserve No 2 | Iron | Prospect | ||
| Q Baker Mine | Iron | Past Producer | ||
| Raymond Olson | Iron | Past Producer |
Storms near this property
8 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Spring Valley, the town this property stands in, in 8 storm reports between 1994 and 1997: 4 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Spring Valley | $6,000 | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Spring Valley | $1,000 | no account filed |
| July 1994 | Hail | Spring Valley | $500 | no account filed |
| July 1997 | Funnel Cloud | Spring Valley | - | no account filed |
| August 1997 | Hail | Spring Valley | - | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Hail | Spring Valley | - | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Spring Valley | - | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Spring Valley | - | 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
6 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Ephraim Steffens House | 0.2 miles | 1982 |
 | Spring Valley Methodist Episcopal Church | 0.3 miles | 1975 |
 | Bridge No. 5722 | 0.4 miles | 2011 |
| Parsons Block and Hall | 0.4 miles | 1982 | |
 | Spring Valley Carnegie Library | 0.5 miles | 1982 |
 | Spring Valley Mausoleum | 1.0 miles | 1982 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 82002953 in Record Group 79. |
| Fillmore County | All 36 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.