Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.
From the record
“The Kiel and Morgan Hotel in Lynd, Minnesota, United States, was the building first used on a regular basis as the Lyon County Courthouse. In 1869, the Minnesota Legislature passed an enabling act dividing Lyon County from Redwood County.”
Wikipedia article Kiel and Morgan Hotel, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 12 National Register listings published here for Lyon County · listed in 1982 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.82002981- 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
2 since 2009
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Kiel & Morgan Hotel/Lyon County Courthouse
between 2009 and 2012, burning about 127 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
2
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
1 working within 5 miles of Kiel & Morgan Hotel/Lyon County Courthouse: 1 producer.
All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Lynd, the town this property stands in, in 43 storm reports between 2002 and 2024: 26 hail, 9 flood, 6 thunderstorm wind, 2 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.
Excessive rainfall rates overloaded culverts on County Road 5 north of Lynd and County Road 7 south of State Highway 23 near Marshall, each washing out large sections of roadway. Other county roads (60, 63 and 65) lost culverts as well, with road damage across the county totaling around 155 thousand dollars. Rainfall at Marshall was 4.81 inches, 4.02 inches just south of Marshall, 5.77 inches at Tracy and 6.50 inches at Ghent.
After excessive two-day rainfall during September 10-12 (5.70 inches at Marshall), the Redwood River at Marshall (gage site MSHM5) reached the ninth highest stage on record of 1.14 feet above flood stage on September 12. Significant agricultural land was flooded, with numerous county roads under water.
The Redwood River at Marshall rose above flood stage the morning of June 22nd, cresting around 1.87 feet above flood stage (15.87 feet) on June 24th. This crest is in the Moderate stage. The river then fell below flood stage on the morning of June 26th. For a more comprehensive description of flood damage, please see other entries for Lyon County.
Quarter size hail stripped leaves from trees. Crop damage is an estimate from insured losses. Information provided by the United States Department of Agriculture.
The Redwood River at Marshall (gage site MSHM5) rose briefly above flood stage and crested at 1.19 feet above flood stage on March 7. Minor flooding of agricultural areas occurred outside Marshall.
Snow melt and heavy rainfall (measured 1.56 inches at Marshall) resulted in significant flooding of agricultural lands and several county roads around Marshall. The Redwood River at Marshall (gage site MSHM5) reached the highest stage on record cresting 5.71 feet above flood stage on March 24.
Runoff from heavy rainfall of 2 to 3 inches in the Redwood River basin from July 4 into July 5 (2.70 inches at Marshall) produced brief flooding of agricultural land. The Redwood River near Marshall (gage site MSHM5) crested at 0.60 feet above flood stage on July 5.
Runoff following the major winter storm in mid-April produced brief flooding of agricultural land. The Redwood River near Marshall (gage site MSHM5) crested at 0.77 feet above flood stage on April 18.
Snow melt and runoff from periods of heavier rainfall briefly produced moderate flooding with impact to lowland agricultural areas. River levels reached 1.9 feet above flood stage on the Redwood River at Marshall (gage site MSHM5) on April 24.
A week of periodic heavy rainfall ending June 26 resulted in a widespread 2 to 5 inches of rainfall, much of which occurred on June 20 and 24. Weekly rainfall totals reached 4.08 inches 6 miles east of Ivanhoe, 2.79 inches at Minneota and 1.84 inches at Marshall. Minor flooding occurred with significant amounts of crop and pasture land inundated as the Redwood River at Marshall (gage site MSHM5) briefly crested 0.4 feet above flood stage on June 25.
The event began as a flash flood, with historical flooding of areas around Marshall. Numerous motorists were in need of rescue when their vehicles became stalled in the flood waters which ran 2 to 4 feet deep in places around the city. Significant amounts of crop and pasture land were severely impacted near the Redwood River, as well as a few county and township roads inundated by major flooding as river levels climbed to 3.4 feet above flood stage near Marshall (gage site MSHM5) on July 3. This is the highest crest on record for the gage site.
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
5 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.
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.
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