BlockFrom the record
One of 12 National Register listings published here for Lyon County · listed in 1982 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Martin Norseth 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. Norseth, Martin, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
- Address. 86 E. Main, Cottonwood, 56229
- When was it listed? March 1982
- Category. building
- Also known as. Lyon County MRA
- Township. Lucas township
- National Register reference number. 82002980 - 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
4,033 wordsThe chapter on Lucas Township in History of Lyon County, published 1884 names Cottonwood. This is what it says, exactly as the scans read.
In section 3 is Sham Lake, not very large, nor very d«ep, but a pretty little body ot water. In sections 4, 5, 8 and 9 a much larger body of water is found, called Cottonwood Lake, from several large cottonwood trees on the east cud There is also a grove of timber on the north shore. In section 11 is Lake Hamre, named from E. T. Harare, a settler near it. It has a little timber on the south side. In section 17 a small lake is named Lake Susan on the railroad maps, but called Bogus Lake by the Lucasites. On section 20 and 21 is Lady Shoe Lake named from its supposed resemblance to that ariicle. There
Passage source: History of Lyon County, published 1884.
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 Lucas Township - 4,033 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.
Storms near this property
22 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cottonwood, the town this property stands in, in 22 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 12 hail, 7 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 1 flash flood. The reports record 4 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 1993 | Tornado (F1) | Cottonwood | 4 hurt | A short-lived tornado destroyed a home and injured four people. |
| July 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cottonwood | $100,000 | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cottonwood | $3,000 | no account filed |
| August 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cottonwood | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts snapped off a cottonwood tree of 6 to 8 inches diameter at the base. |
| June 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cottonwood | - | A thunderstorm wind gust of 73 mph was measured by a personal weather station near Cottonwood. |
| May 2022 | Hail | Cottonwood | - | Crop damage is an estimate from insured losses. Information provided by the United States Department of Agriculture. |
| May 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cottonwood | - | Thunderstorm winds damaged the grain elevator and several roofs in Cottonwood. Trees and powerlines also down. |
| May 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cottonwood | - | A thunderstorm wind gust to 82 mph was measured by a personal weather station northwest of Cottonwood. |
| June 2019 | Hail | Cottonwood | - | Along with hail, there was a quick 1.50 inches of rainfall. |
| June 2014 | Flash Flood | Cottonwood | - | Heavy rain caused flash flooding of numerous streets, parks, and fields near and south of the town of Cottonwood. Basements of some homes were also flooded. |
| June 2001 | Tornado (F0) | Cottonwood | - | A brief tornado caused no reported damage. |
| July 2023 | Hail | Cottonwood | - | no account filed |
| July 2023 | Hail | Cottonwood | - | no account filed |
| May 2022 | Hail | Cottonwood | - | no account filed |
| May 2022 | Hail | Cottonwood | - | no account filed |
| June 2019 | Hail | Cottonwood | - | no account filed |
| June 2019 | Hail | Cottonwood | - | no account filed |
| July 2008 | Hail | Cottonwood | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Cottonwood | - | no account filed |
| August 2004 | Hail | Cottonwood | - | no account filed |
| June 2003 | Hail | Cottonwood | - | no account filed |
| October 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cottonwood | - | 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 82002980 in Record Group 79. |
| Lyon County | All 12 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.
- 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.