Urjans Iverson House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

From the record

“The Urjans Iverson House is a historic log cabin in Gilchrist Township, Minnesota, United States, built in 1866. It was restored in 1990 and is preserved within Fort Lake Johanna Roadside Park off Minnesota State Highway 104.”
Wikipedia article Urjans Iverson House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 12 National Register listings published here for Pope County · listed in 1982 · category: Building.

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.
Listed as. Iverson, Urjans, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. Off MN 104, Sedan, 56316
When was it listed? February 1982
Category. building
Township. Gilchrist township
National Register reference number. 82003001 - 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

7 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Urjans Iverson House between 2001 and 2020, burning about 108 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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	3
Recreation and ceremony	2
Arson/incendiarism	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
5 May 2008	Arson/incendiarism	49 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
4 April 2001	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
10 April 2004	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
27 February 2017	Debris and open burning	4.6 acres	Litchfield Wetland Management District	BRENNER LAKE WF
13 December 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Morris National Wildlife Refuge	LAKE JOHANNA
6 November 2020	Recreation and ceremony	19 acres	Morris National Wildlife Refuge	OVERBY
22 November 2006	Debris and open burning	34 acres	Morris National Wildlife Refuge	TURKEY EVE FIRE

Every fire recorded in Pope County

Storms near this property

21 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sedan, the town this property stands in, in 21 storm reports between 1993 and 2018: 7 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 5 funnel cloud, 3 tornado. 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
May 2015	Funnel Cloud	Sedan	-	Video from a storm chaser showed a funnel that was completely separate from the circulation that produced the Sedan tornado and the tornado 2 to 4 miles north of Sedan from 1841 to 1847. It is possible this touched down, but there is not enough evidence to be certain.
May 2015	Tornado (EF0)	Sedan	-	A tornado touched down in an open field. It was recorded on video by numerous storm chasers.
May 2012	Tornado (EF0)	Sedan	-	Spotters and multiple storm chasers reported a brief tornado touchdown north of Sedan, Minnesota. It was rated an EF0 with no damage.
August 2010	Hail	Sedan	-	Several reports of nickel to quarter size hail was observed near Terrace and east of Terrace, Minnesota.
June 2005	Funnel Cloud	Sedan	-	A storm chaser reported a funnel cloud just north of Sedan.
July 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Sedan	-	Trees were downed.
May 2004	Hail	Sedan	-	Dime sized hail fell 2 miles west of Brooten.
July 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Sedan	-	Empty grain bin blown 1/4 mile. Trees down.
July 2000	Funnel Cloud	Sedan	-	Though viewed by law enforcement, spotters and storm chasers, there was no touchdown.
June 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Sedan	-	Trees down. Estimated windspeed.
June 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Sedan	-	Large branches down. Estimated windspeed.
July 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Sedan	-	Large trees down.
May 1993	Thunderstorm Wind	Sedan	-	Strong winds blew down several trees and buildings.
August 2018	Hail	Sedan	-	no account filed
June 2016	Funnel Cloud	Sedan	-	no account filed
June 2013	Hail	Sedan	-	no account filed
June 2008	Hail	Sedan	-	no account filed
July 2002	Hail	Sedan	-	no account filed
August 2001	Hail	Sedan	-	no account filed
July 1997	Tornado (F1)	Sedan	-	no account filed
June 1996	Funnel Cloud	Sedan	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Pope 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

2 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.

Photograph	Property	Distance	Listed
	Terrace Historic District	5.0 miles	1982
	Terrace Mill Historic District	5.0 miles	1979

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 82003001 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Pope 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.
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.
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.