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Photograph of Buhl City Hall
Photograph by McGhiever, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Buhl Village Hall

Built in 1913 (Beaux-Arts). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

From the record

“Buhl City Hall is the seat of municipal government for Buhl, Minnesota, United States. It was built in 1913 during the city's rapid expansion as a mining community on the Iron Range.”

Wikipedia article Buhl City Hall (Minnesota), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 126 National Register listings published here for St. Louis County · listed in 1983 · category: Site · built in 1913, Beaux-Arts.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · 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. Jones Ave. at 4th St., Buhl, 55713
  • When was it listed? February 1983
  • Category. site
  • Township. Great Scott township
  • When was it built? 1913
  • Architectural style. Beaux-Arts
  • National Register reference number. 83000944 - 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

158 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 158 fires within 5 miles of Buhl Village Hall between 1992 and 2020, burning about 448 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 79 were 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/incendiarism79
Debris and open burning41
Missing data/not specified/undetermined17
Equipment and vehicle use11
Recreation and ceremony4
Smoking3
Natural1
Fireworks1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
12 September 2012Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
10 September 2006Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 September 2008Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 September 2001Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 August 2006Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 August 2001Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 August 2006Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Every fire recorded in St. Louis County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 165 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 165 workings within 5 miles of Buhl Village Hall: 129 past producers, 23 producers, 12 prospects, 1 unknown. 23 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Aluminum, Manganese, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Silica, Water, Free, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Manganese, Aluminum, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Silica, Water, Free. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Billings MineIron, Silica, Water, Free, Aluminum, Manganese, Phosphorus-PhosphatesPast Producer1919
Bruce MineIron, Aluminum, Manganese, Silica, Water, Free, Phosphorus-PhosphatesProspect1927
Dunwoody MineIron, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Water, Free, Aluminum, Manganese, SilicaPast Producer1917
Fraser MineIron, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Silica, Water, Free, Aluminum, ManganesePast Producer1928
Hibtac Pit & MillGraniteProducer
Midway No.2 MineIron, Silica, Manganese, Aluminum, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Water, FreePast Producer
NilesAluminum, Iron, Manganese, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Silica, Water, FreeProducer1913, 1942
Sharon MineIron, Manganese, Aluminum, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Silica, Water, FreePast Producer1902
Wabigon & Wabigon No.2 MineIron, Manganese, Aluminum, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Silica, Water, FreePast Producer1925
State Road No 66 PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in St. Louis County

Storms near this property

6 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Buhl, the town this property stands in, in 6 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 3 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2025Thunderstorm WindBuhl1 hurtA tree fell at a campground on Stubler Lake landing on a tent and injuring a 7 year old boy.
July 1995Thunderstorm WindBuhl$10,000Several large trees were blown down. One car was crushed.
May 2018Thunderstorm WindBuhl-Four inch diameter trees were snapped by strong thunderstorm winds.
March 2016HailBuhl-Photos from Buhl showed several large stones.
May 2009HailBuhl-Dime to quarter size hail fell.
June 2024HailBuhl-no account filed

Every storm recorded in St. Louis 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

5 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 PropertyDistance Listed
Buhl Public Libraryunder 500 feet1983
Bruce Mine Headframe4.2 miles1978
Saints Peter and Paul Church-Ukranian Catholic4.8 miles1980
Chisholm Commercial Historic District4.9 miles2016
Mesaba Co-operative Park7.3 miles2019

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 83000944 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
St. Louis CountyAll 126 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.