Union Hotel

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 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 201 Paquin St., E., Waterville, 56096
When was it listed? March 1982
Category. building
Also known as. Le Sueur County MRA
Township. Waterville township
National Register reference number. 82004709 - 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

3 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Union Hotel between 2003 and 2006, burning about 2 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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 April 2003	Smoking	2.0 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
9 November 2006	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
20 October 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Le Sueur County

Storms near this property

20 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Waterville, the town this property stands in, in 20 storm reports between 1999 and 2023: 8 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 4 tornado, 2 funnel cloud. The reports record 1 injury. 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
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Waterville	1 hurt	Trees were downed across the city. The roof of a trailer home and an attached garage was ripped off and a picture window was blown out. A man in the trailer home was cut on the leg by flying glass from a shattered window and required 14 stitches. A camper in the back yard of the home was blown into Whitewater Creek along with roof and tree debris. Damage was reported to other houses in the vicinity, including one home that was impaled by a 2x4 that came from a damaged building across the street. A tree was downed onto a power truck on Highway 60.
July 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Waterville	$10,000	A few trees were blown over, along with approximately 20 feet of corn flattened on the north side of Lake Tetonka.
July 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Waterville	$10,000	There were reports of trees and power lines blown down in Waterville. One house in Waterville lost its roof due to the severe winds.
June 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Waterville	$2,000	A home had siding damage in Waterville. Numerous trees were also blown downed across the city, some were blocking city streets.
July 2020	Heavy Rain	Waterville	-	A measured rainfall report over the last 24-hours at Waterville was 7.33 inches.
September 2018	Tornado (EF1)	Waterville	-	This is a continuation path of the tornado that crossed the Waseca, Le Sueur county line southwest of Waterville. \|\|A NWS storm survey, plus areal footage of drone and satellite data, concluded that an EF1 tornado tracked an additional 5.8 miles from southwest of Waterville, then through the northwest corner of Waterville, or between Lake Tetonka and Upper Sakatah Lake, before lifting on the south side of Horseshoe Lake. Tornado damage was consistent with EF1 damage with winds up to 90 mph, and a maximum path width of 330 yards. Damage along the path occurred to homes, outbuildings, and large trees.
September 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Waterville	-	A NWS storm survey, plus drone footage, concluded that there was significant damage to the south of the tornado track in the town of Waterville. Damage was consistent with downburst winds and inflow winds into the tornadic storm. Damage was also consistent with winds up to 95 mph with complete destruction of manufactured homes and some campers being rolled several times. Other damage included roof damage and large trees uprooted.
June 2016	Tornado (EF0)	Waterville	-	A tornado touched down occasionally, mostly over open fields. It did break a few trees. The tornado crossed into Rice County before dissipating.
May 2012	Hail	Waterville	-	Consistent hail of half dollar size was covering the ground from Waterville, and east to Calvary Cemetery.
June 2009	Funnel Cloud	Waterville	-	Trained spotters reported a rotating wall cloud and associated funnel cloud east of Waterville before dissipating.
September 2005	Hail	Waterville	-	Crop damage was reported from large hail and/or gusty winds in several Le Sueur county townships, including northeast of Waterville.
August 1999	Tornado (F0)	Waterville	-	Multiple vortex tornado crossed open fields and continued into Rice County.
August 1999	Tornado (F0)	Waterville	-	Few trees down. Tornado continued into Rice County and Camp Omega.
August 1999	Funnel Cloud	Waterville	-	Funnel Cloud remained over western end of Lake Sakatah.
August 2023	Hail	Waterville	-	no account filed
March 2021	Hail	Waterville	-	no account filed
May 2017	Hail	Waterville	-	no account filed
June 2007	Hail	Waterville	-	no account filed
May 2002	Hail	Waterville	-	no account filed
May 2002	Hail	Waterville	-	no account filed

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

2 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.

Photograph	Property	Distance	Listed
	Arthur Dehn House	0.5 miles	1982
	Elysian Public School	5.4 miles	1981

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 82004709 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.
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.