Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.
“Kimball City Hall is the seat of local government for Kimball, Minnesota, United States. It was built in 1908 when the community was still a village known as Kimball Prairie.”
Wikipedia article Kimball City Hall, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 36 National Register listings published here for Stearns 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 chapter on Maine Prairie Township in History of Stearns County, Minnesota, published 1915 names Kimball. This is what it says, exactly as the scans read.
D. W. Fowler, Joseph Dam, Joseph E. and Samuel Young, William and William L. Heywood, Albert Staples, A. T. Crommett, William Milligan, Horace Greely, Martin Greely, Hiram Millett, Moses Ireland, John and Orlen Farwell, Frey M. Kimball, R. F. Adley, James Taylor, George Clark, Daniel Spauling. Ruel Furlong, Marilla and Almira French. John P. Guptill, James Simmons, D. Sutherland, D. A. Hoyt, S. Leavett, Aaron Scribner, Andrew F. and Daniel Perkins, William Stewart, Henry Hutchinson, "Doc" Mayo, James M. Kimball, John C. Dolan, Edwin Kidder, Thomas Straw and A Wade.
Passage source: History of Stearns County, Minnesota, published 1915.
Farwell were to choose the site, and Daniel Spaulding, R. F. Adley and John Parwell were to supervise the erection of the building. Nothing, however, came of these plans. The second annual meeting was held April 5, 1859, at the store house of G. W. Cutter on the west side of Pearl lake. There was considerable bitter feeling engendered at this meeting. April 5, ot this year, Fair Haven was set off and organized. Rockville was set off and organized June 25, 1860. On that day the people of Maine Prairie elected the following officers: Supervisors, T. B. Stanley (chairman), J. Eaton, D. Spaulding; town clerk, S. P. Brown; treasurer, R. P. Adley; justice of the peace, Orlen Farwell; superintendent of schools, S. P. Brown; constables, William Milligan and F. M. Kimball; overseer of the poor, A. B. Greely.
Passage source: History of Stearns County, Minnesota, published 1915.
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 Maine Prairie Township - 3,817 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Kimball Prairie Village Hall between 1999 and 2000, burning about 31 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 |
|---|---|
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 September 2000 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 9.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 15 November 1999 | Recreation and ceremony | 22 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kimball, the town this property stands in, in 24 storm reports between 1998 and 2023: 17 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 heavy rain, 1 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 | Tornado (EF0) | Kimball | $100,000 | This tornado knocked down a couple dozen trees, pushed over a barn, and damaged sheds, including a storage shed at the football field at the Kimball Area Schools, where equipment was strewn downfield. The tornado dissipated shortly thereafter. |
| July 2010 | Hail | Kimball | $50,000 | Several trained spotters reported numerous nickel, up to baseball size hail stones near Kimball, Minnesota. |
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kimball | - | A storm chaser with a handheld anemometer measured the wind gust near Kimball. |
| July 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kimball | - | A large tree limb was blown down in Kimball. |
| May 2014 | Hail | Kimball | - | Most of the hail was less than nickel size. |
| August 2009 | Heavy Rain | Kimball | - | A trained spotter measured 4.16 inches of rainfall overnight. |
| September 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kimball | - | Street signs knocked down. |
| June 2004 | Hail | Kimball | - | Penny sized hail fell 1/2 mile south of Highway 15 near Delwood Road. |
| June 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kimball | - | Barn blown down. Estimated Windspeed. |
| March 2023 | Hail | Kimball | - | no account filed |
| May 2022 | Hail | Kimball | - | no account filed |
| June 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kimball | - | no account filed |
| August 2013 | Hail | Kimball | - | no account filed |
| May 2008 | Hail | Kimball | - | no account filed |
| May 2006 | Hail | Kimball | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Kimball | - | no account filed |
| April 2004 | Hail | Kimball | - | no account filed |
| June 2004 | Hail | Kimball | - | no account filed |
| April 2002 | Hail | Kimball | - | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Hail | Kimball | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Hail | Kimball | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Kimball | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Kimball | - | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Hail | Kimball | - | no account filed |
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.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Fair Haven Flour Mill | 4.2 miles | 1978 |
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 82003045 in Record Group 79. |
| Wikipedia article | Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA. |
| Stearns County | All 36 listed properties in this county. |
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