Johnson Mill

Built in 1877. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

From the record

“The Johnson Mill, also known as the Charles Johnson Mill, is a historic flour mill site in Houston County, Minnesota. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1982, under the name "Johnson Mill".”
Wikipedia article Johnson Mill, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 16 National Register listings published here for Houston County · listed in 1982 · category: Building · built in 1877.

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 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. CR 5 and 23, Eitzen, 55921
When was it listed? April 1982
Category. building
Also known as. Houston County MRA
Township. Winnebago township
When was it built? 1877
National Register reference number. 82002966 - 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 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Johnson Mill between 1992 and 2013, burning about 134 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
Debris and open burning	4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
30 August 2013	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
4 April 2004	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
4 April 1992	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
30 April 1993	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
2 April 2005	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
2 April 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	124 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	PIEPER FIRE
18 April 1998	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
19 March 2009	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Houston County

Mines and quarries near this property

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Johnson Mill: 3 producers, 1 past producer. 3 still produce. What was taken out: 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Beneke Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Meyer Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Riehms Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Thiele Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working recorded in Houston County

Storms near this property

8 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Eitzen, the town this property stands in, in 8 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 4 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 heavy rain, 1 tornado. The reports record 2 injuries. 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 1996	Hail	Eitzen	2 hurt, $1,000,000	no account filed
August 2018	Heavy Rain	Eitzen	$45,000	Rainfall totaled 5.66 inches during this time frame.
March 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Eitzen	$10,000	A barn was lifted off its foundation and landed on a house southwest of Eitzen while power poles and lines were blown down in Eitzen.
July 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Eitzen	$1,000	no account filed
June 2025	Tornado (EF0)	Eitzen	-	This weak tornado continued into Houston County from Allamakee County where it produced additional minor tree damage. Much of this tree damage occurred within the proximity of structures but no structural damage was observed.
August 2012	Hail	Eitzen	-	no account filed
August 2003	Hail	Eitzen	-	no account filed
May 2000	Hail	Eitzen	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Houston 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.

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Christian Bunge Jr. Store	3.4 miles	1982
Eitzen Stone Barn	3.5 miles
Portland Prairie Methodist Episcopal Church	4.1 miles	1982
Jefferson Grain Warehouse	6.8 miles	1994
Houston County Courthouse and Jail	7.7 miles	1983
Spafford Williams Hotel	7.9 miles	1982

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 82002966 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Houston County	All 16 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.