Charles Schwartz House and Barn

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

From 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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Schwartz, Charles, House and Barn - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. Off Co. Hwy. 23, Ottawa, 56058
When was it listed? March 1982
Category. building
Also known as. Ottawa Stone Buildings TR
Township. Ottawa township
National Register reference number. 82004708 - 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 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Charles Schwartz House and Barn 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

Every fire recorded in Le Sueur County

Mines and quarries near this property

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Charles Schwartz House and Barn: 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.

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

Every working recorded in Le Sueur County

Storms near this property

5 since 1998

Regional 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.

Every storm recorded in Le Sueur 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 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
Methodist Episcopal Church	0.6 miles	1982
Ottawa Township Hall	0.7 miles	1982
John Rinshed House	0.8 miles	1982
Trinity Chapel-Episcopal	0.8 miles	1982
Needham-Hayes House	0.8 miles	1982
Broadway Bridge	4.8 miles	1999

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 82004708 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.