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
Anderson, O. G., & Co. Store
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Address. Jefferson St., Minneota, 56264
- When was it listed? March 1982
- Category. building
- Also known as. Lyon County MRA
- City. Minneota city
- National Register reference number. 82002985 - 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
6,003 wordsThe chapter on Minneota City in An Illustrated History of Lyon County, Minnesota, published 1912 names Minneota. This is what it says, exactly as the scans read.
Minneota is in the northwestern part of the county, on the Chicago & Northwestern railroad. The platted village is on the southeast quarter of section 25. Kidsvold township. Its elevation above sea level is 1179 feet. The population when the 1910 census was taken was 819.
Passage source: An Illustrated History of Lyon County, Minnesota, published 1912.
So early as 1871 located in the northwest corner township in close proximity to the site of the present village. Others came the following year, and in 1872 a postoffice named Nordland was established for their benefit. It was located on section 26, just west of the site of the village, and H. D. Frink, a homesteader, was the postmaster. That office was the predecessor of the Minneota office and Mr. Frink remained in charge until it was moved to the present location in 1875. Mr. Frink
Passage source: An Illustrated History of Lyon County, Minnesota, published 1912.
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 Minneota City - 6,003 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.
Storms near this property
44 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Minneota, the town this property stands in, in 44 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 23 hail, 14 thunderstorm wind, 4 tornado, 1 flash flood. 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 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Minneota | 2 hurt | High winds downed numerous trees and damaged several buildings in Minneota. The roof was torn off the Auto Center. One direct injury resulted to a driver when his semi-truck was blown into the ditch and rolled 3 miles east of Minneota. A second direct injury occurred when a person was blown down by the wind. |
| June 1997 | Hail | Minneota | $100,000 | Large hail devastated about 40 thousand acres of crops in western Lyon County. The area just south of Minneota was the most affected. |
| June 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Minneota | $50,000 | Thunderstorm winds caused tree and minor building damage damage and blew down signs. |
| March 2014 | Tornado (EF0) | Minneota | $15,000 | A tornado destroyed outbuildings, damaged a grain bin, and broke windows in a house in northern Lyon County, then crossed the county line into Yellow Medicine County. |
| August 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Minneota | $1,000 | A large tree was toppled on a farmstead. Property damage costs are rough estimates. Crop damage is an estimate from insured losses. Information provided by the United States Department of Agriculture. |
| June 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Minneota | - | Strong thunderstorm wind gusts broke off several 2 inch diameter tree limbs. |
| April 2023 | Flood | Minneota | - | Areal flooding from rapid snowmelt resulted in damage to several gravel roads and culverts across Lyon County, Minnesota during mid April. The most concentrated area of issues occurred in Westerheim Township in northern Lyon County. This flooding resulted in a Presidential Disaster Declaration for several townships across the county. |
| August 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Minneota | - | A thunderstorm wind gust of 65 mph was measured by a hand-held anemometer. |
| August 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Minneota | - | Medium to large diameter branches were downed by thunderstorm winds in Minneota. |
| August 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Minneota | - | Wind estimate through social media report. |
| August 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Minneota | - | Peal size hail and very heavy rain occurred at the same time. |
| July 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Minneota | - | Several large tree branches were downed. |
| June 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Minneota | - | Thunderstorm winds caused widespread tree damage, with numerous trees in Minneota blown down. |
| June 2013 | Hail | Minneota | - | Large hail caused an unknown amount of damage to vehicles. |
| April 2012 | Tornado (EF0) | Minneota | - | A brief tornado caused no reported damage. |
| August 2012 | Hail | Minneota | - | Large hail caused an unknown amount of crop, vehicle, window, and roof damage. |
| June 2004 | Tornado (F0) | Minneota | - | A brief tornado caused no reported damage. |
| June 2004 | Tornado (F0) | Minneota | - | A brief tornado caused no reported damage. |
| June 2002 | Flash Flood | Minneota | - | Heavy rain caused flooding of several township roads. |
| June 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Minneota | - | Thunderstorm winds blew down power lines and moved cars. |
| July 2000 | Hail | Minneota | - | Large hail caused widespread crop damage, with soybean crops especially hard hit. Crop damage estimates were available but incomplete. |
| July 2023 | Hail | Minneota | - | no account filed |
| May 2023 | Hail | Minneota | - | no account filed |
| May 2022 | Hail | Minneota | - | no account filed |
| September 2020 | Hail | Minneota | - | no account filed |
| June 2016 | Hail | Minneota | - | no account filed |
| July 2016 | Hail | Minneota | - | no account filed |
| June 2014 | Funnel Cloud | Minneota | - | no account filed |
| April 2012 | Hail | Minneota | - | no account filed |
| August 2009 | Hail | Minneota | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Hail | Minneota | - | no account filed |
| July 2006 | Hail | Minneota | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Minneota | - | no account filed |
| May 2005 | Hail | Minneota | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Minneota | - | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Hail | Minneota | - | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Hail | Minneota | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Minneota | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Minneota | - | no account filed |
| July 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Minneota | - | no account filed |
| July 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Minneota | - | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Hail | Minneota | - | no account filed |
| September 1995 | Hail | Minneota | - | no account filed |
| July 1994 | Hail | Minneota | - | 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
2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | J. S. Anderson House | 0.2 miles | 1982 |
 | St. Paul's Evangelical Lutheran Church & Parsonage | 0.3 miles | 1982 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 82002985 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.