Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.
One of 36 National Register listings published here for Stearns County · listed in 1982 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article
The chapter on St. Joseph City in History of Stearns County, Minnesota, published 1915 names St. Joseph. This is what it says, exactly as the scans read.
St. Joseph was one of the first settled towns in the county. In 1854, two settlements were made, one in the vicinity of the present village of St. Joseph, by some German families, and the other on the east side of Sauk river, in the southeast corner of the town, by Americans.
Passage source: History of Stearns County, Minnesota, published 1915.
In 1856 Andrew Schroeder and family, Fred Schroeder and family, consisting of his wife and daughter, Elisabeth (later Mrs. Geo. Gruber), William, Mary and Fred, the latter three still living, came from Newark, New Jersey, and bought out Math. Huff, whose claim was big enough for two. It is now the farms of John Schroeder and John Mertes.. Mrs. Fred Schroeder, the wife of the elder Fred Schroeder, died in June of the same year, which was the first death at St. Joseph. During the same year M. J. Pung and family, John Gross and wife. Math. Braun and family, Peter Heinen and family, and Godhard Heinen and family came from Wisconsin. They bought the claims of Mike Lauermann, Jacob Thielen and Nicholas Kraus, who had claimed nearly the whole prairie east from St. Joseph. As the land had not been surveyed by the government, many of the claims were large enough for two.
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 St. Joseph City - 4,786 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of First State Bank between 1999 and 2020, burning about 270 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19 May 1999 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 6 November 2020 | Debris and open burning | 260 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 11 October 2000 | Smoking | 10 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 1 January 2000 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of First State Bank: 4 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Granite, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| J L Shiely Co Quarry & Mill | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Stommes Stearns County Sand & Grave | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Crystal Gray Quarry | Granite | Producer | ||
| Diamond Pink Quarry | Granite | Producer |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Church of St. Joseph-Catholic | under 500 feet | 1982 |
 | St. Benedict's Convent and College Historic District | 0.1 miles | 1989 |
| St. John's Abbey and University Historic District | 3.8 miles | 1979 | |
| St. Cloud Veterans Administration Hospital Historic District | 5.2 miles | 2012 | |
 | Pan Motor Company Office and Sheet Metal Works | 5.8 miles | 1984 |
 | Clark and McCormack Quarry and House | 6.3 miles | 1982 |
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 82003058 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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