Crookston Commercial Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.

From the record

One of 6 National Register listings published here for Polk County · listed in 1984 · category: District.

Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. Roughly Main St. and Broadway between Fletcher and W. 2nd St., Crookston, 56716
When was it listed? November 1984
Category. district
City. Crookston city
National Register reference number. 84002709 - 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 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Crookston Commercial Historic District between 2006 and 2012, burning about 22 acres in total. 1 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
Natural	1
Equipment and vehicle use	1
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
5 August 2006	Natural	1.0 acres	Detroit Lakes Wetland Management District	OLD LIGHTNING
10 April 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	20 acres	Glacial Ridge	GLACIAL RIDGE 1
17 March 2012	Arson/incendiarism	1.3 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Polk County

Storms near this property

60 of 69 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Crookston, the town this property stands in, in 69 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 38 hail, 20 thunderstorm wind, 7 flash flood, 2 tornado. 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
May 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Crookston	$400,000	There were many reports of damage around Crookston, with many trees, power lines, and street signs blown over. A small shed was blown down and falling tree limbs damaged the roofs of numerous homes.
July 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Crookston	$50,000	Tree branches were blown down.
August 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Crookston	$50,000	Many trees and powerlines were blown down and several buildings were damaged. One tree fell on a car, totalling it. A portion of a brick building was blown over.
May 2005	Tornado (F2)	Crookston	$10,000	A tornado touched down north of Crookston, and created a west-to-east damage path. The tornado hit a well-constructed pole barn and then travelled into an open field. Several large trees were snapped in half. The estimated peak wind speed was 140 mph.
May 2016	Flash Flood	Crookston	$5,000	Streets and fields were flooded by around four inches of rain in several hours. There were reports of kayaking in the flooded streets.
July 2001	Flash Flood	Crookston	$2,000	Street flooding was reported in Crookston.
June 2024	Flash Flood	Crookston	$1,000	Law Enforcement reports standing water in roads, resulting in impassable streets downtown.
March 2009	Flash Flood	Crookston	$1,000	no account filed
June 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Crookston	$500	Several large trees were blown down.
August 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Crookston	$200	Branches were blown down.
June 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Crookston	-	Law Enforcement reports trees down in various sizes around Crookston.
April 2023	Flood	Crookston	-	Crookston gage, on the Red Lake River. Crested at 22.34 ft on April 17th at 14:55.
July 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Crookston	-	Large tree branches were blown down across the northern part of town.
June 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Crookston	-	Several large trees and a fence were blown down.
May 2016	Hail	Crookston	-	The hail started as dime size and slowly got larger.
May 2016	Hail	Crookston	-	The hailstones were possibly formed by several smaller stones merging together aloft.
July 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Crookston	-	A personal weather station recorded a wind gust of 80 mph. The strong winds wrecked havoc on the trees in the city of Crookston.
July 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Crookston	-	Large tree branches were blown down throughout Crookston. A door was also blown in at the Hugos grocery store. Wind speeds were estimated at 60 to 70 mph.
July 2009	Hail	Crookston	-	The hail was reported at the University of Minnesota Crookston.
September 2007	Hail	Crookston	-	The ground was covered with hail.
August 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Crookston	-	Zero visibility was reported in very high winds and rain.
August 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Crookston	-	Large tree limbs and power lines were blown down along the Polk and Red Lake County line.
June 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Crookston	-	Large tree branches were blown down near the University of Minnesota Crookston campus.
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Crookston	-	The roof was torn off a barn and two steel grain bins were blown down.
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Crookston	-	Several large trees were blown down by the strong wind. Shingles were torn off two homes.
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Crookston	-	The roofing and sidewalls were violently torn from two pole sheds and blown to the east. Numerous trees were uprooted or snapped off.
June 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Crookston	-	A 6 inch diameter tree was blown down.
June 2002	Flash Flood	Crookston	-	Numerous county roads were under water.
June 2002	Lightning	Crookston	-	A lightning strike knocked out the Polk county 911 system.
June 2002	Flash Flood	Crookston	-	U.S. Highway 2 was covered with water.
August 2002	Flash Flood	Crookston	-	Water flowed over county roads.
June 2000	Hail	Crookston	-	Hail completely covered the ground.
June 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Crookston	-	A 19-year-old man was struck by lightning while driving a motorcycle along Highway 2 near Erskine and was killed. Another 17-year-old cyclist, traveling alongside the other, was injured.
June 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Crookston	-	Several trees were blown down by strong thunderstorm winds.
September 2020	Hail	Crookston	-	no account filed
May 2018	Hail	Crookston	-	no account filed
June 2010	Hail	Crookston	-	no account filed
July 2009	Hail	Crookston	-	no account filed
July 2009	Hail	Crookston	-	no account filed
July 2009	Hail	Crookston	-	no account filed
July 2009	Hail	Crookston	-	no account filed
July 2009	Hail	Crookston	-	no account filed
August 2006	Hail	Crookston	-	no account filed
August 2006	Hail	Crookston	-	no account filed
May 2005	Hail	Crookston	-	no account filed
May 2005	Hail	Crookston	-	no account filed
September 2005	Hail	Crookston	-	no account filed
May 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Crookston	-	no account filed
June 2004	Hail	Crookston	-	no account filed
September 2003	Hail	Crookston	-	no account filed
September 2003	Hail	Crookston	-	no account filed
April 2002	Hail	Crookston	-	no account filed
June 2002	Hail	Crookston	-	no account filed
May 2001	Hail	Crookston	-	no account filed
August 2001	Hail	Crookston	-	no account filed
August 2001	Hail	Crookston	-	no account filed
September 2001	Hail	Crookston	-	no account filed
August 2001	Hail	Crookston	-	no account filed
August 2001	Hail	Crookston	-	no account filed
June 1998	Hail	Crookston	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Polk 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

4 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
Crookston Carnegie Public Library	under 500 feet	1984
Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception	under 500 feet	1998
E. C. Davis House	0.6 miles	1984
Church of St. Peter-Catholic	7.4 miles	1982

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 84002709 in Record Group 79.
Polk County	All 6 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.