Daniel Pennie House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

From the record

“The Daniel Pennie House is a historic house located in Leven Township, approximately 2 miles (3 km) north of Villard in Pope County, Minnesota, United States. It was placed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) on April 1, 1982.”
Wikipedia article Daniel Pennie 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. Pennie, Daniel, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. Co. Hwy. 27, Villard, 56385
When was it listed? April 1982
Category. building
Also known as. Pope County MRA
Township. Leven township
National Register reference number. 82003003 - 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

11 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Daniel Pennie House between 1996 and 2015, burning about 194 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 were 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
Arson/incendiarism	5
Debris and open burning	3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Smoking	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
10 August 2006	Smoking	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
6 May 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	14 acres	Fergus Falls Wetland Management District	HUDSON
11 May 1996	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
2 April 2015	Arson/incendiarism	5.0 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
16 April 2004	Arson/incendiarism	46 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
15 April 2015	Arson/incendiarism	5.0 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
11 April 2015	Arson/incendiarism	5.0 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
9 November 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Pope County

Storms near this property

14 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Villard, the town this property stands in, in 14 storm reports between 2003 and 2025: 7 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 2 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 2016	Tornado (EF0)	Villard	$10,000	A few boats were flipped, a shed was damaged and shingles were blown off a roof near Amelia Lake.
June 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Villard	-	Boat lifts and canopies overturned on Lake Reno.
June 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Villard	-	Thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 mph downed several trees, including one on a trailer near the town of Villard.
August 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Villard	-	There were numerous large trees blown down along Highway 29, and along Lake Reno.
May 2015	Tornado (EF0)	Villard	-	The tornado touched down for brief times on several occasions before it dissipated. It was recorded on video by multiple storm chasers.
July 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Villard	-	Several large trees were blown down south of Villard.
July 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Villard	-	Large trees were uprooted in Villard.
June 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Villard	-	A large tree fell down near Villard.
August 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Villard	-	A few large tree branches were blown down near Villard.
June 2020	Hail	Villard	-	no account filed
May 2018	Hail	Villard	-	no account filed
August 2006	Hail	Villard	-	no account filed
August 2006	Hail	Villard	-	no account filed
May 2003	Hail	Villard	-	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

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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Northern Pacific Depot	1.2 miles	1983
Ann Bickle House	7.8 miles	1997
Pope County Courthouse	7.8 miles	1982
Glenwood Public Library	7.9 miles	1982
Fremad Association Building	7.9 miles	1982

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 82003003 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.