BlockFrom the record
One of 28 National Register listings published here for Le Sueur County · listed in 1982 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Ottawa Township Hall
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. Buchanan and Bryant Sts., Ottawa, 56058
- When was it listed? March 1982
- Category. building
- Also known as. Ottawa Stone Buildings TR
- Township. Ottawa township
- National Register reference number. 82004705 - 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
1 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Ottawa Township Hall in 1996, burning about 290 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 |
|---|---|
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 November 1996 | Arson/incendiarism | 290 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Mines and quarries near this property
6 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Ottawa Township Hall: 5 producers, 1 unknown. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Silica, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gopher State Sandstone Mill | Silica | Producer | ||
| Gopher State Sandstone Quarry No 2 | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Gopher State Sandstone Quarry No1 | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Gopher State Silica Pit | Silica | Producer | Sandstone | |
| Johnson Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Mullenaheur Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown |
Storms near this property
5 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ottawa, the town this property stands in, in 5 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 1 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood, 1 flash flood. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2025 | Heavy Rain | Ottawa | - | Cocorahs station MN-LS-23 Le Sueur 5.8 S. 72 hour total of 5.55 inches. |
| April 2019 | Flash Flood | Ottawa | - | Heavy rainfall with amounts of 2 to 4 inches fell in a short period of time, and caused roads to be covered by water. The Minnesota Department of Transportation indicated that water was running over State Highway 112 at 311 Avenue, east of Ottawa. The road was closed temporarily during this event. |
| March 2010 | Flood | Ottawa | - | County Road 147, and West Junction, to County Road 102 was closed due to flooding. |
| August 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ottawa | - | Tree down. |
| March 1998 | Tornado (F3) | Ottawa | - | See narrative for Nicollet 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
6 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Methodist Episcopal Church | under 500 feet | 1982 |
| John Rinshed House | 0.1 miles | 1982 | |
 | Trinity Chapel-Episcopal | 0.1 miles | 1982 |
| Needham-Hayes House | 0.1 miles | 1982 | |
| Charles Schwartz House and Barn | 0.7 miles | 1982 | |
 | Broadway Bridge | 4.1 miles | 1999 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 82004705 in Record Group 79. |
| Le Sueur County | All 28 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.
- Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
- 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.