Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.
From the record
“The Todd County Courthouse is the seat of government for Todd County in Long Prairie, Minnesota, United States. The hilltop courthouse was built in 1883 and is fronted by a street-level stone entryway and retaining wall constructed in 1938 by the Works Progress Administration.”
Wikipedia article Todd County Courthouse (Minnesota), CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 14 National Register listings published here for Todd County · listed in 1985 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.85001986- 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
60 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 60 fires within 5 miles of Todd County Courthouse, Sheriff's House and Jail
between 1992 and 2019, burning about 320 acres in total. None started naturally. 9 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
Debris and open burning
28
Equipment and vehicle use
11
Arson/incendiarism
9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
8
Recreation and ceremony
2
Misuse of fire by a minor
1
Smoking
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Long Prairie, the town this property stands in, in 38 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 16 hail, 10 thunderstorm wind, 4 tornado, 3 funnel cloud.
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.
Numerous trees were blown down in Long Prairie. The most concentrated area of damage occurred on the south and northeast part of town. One tree landed on a home and damaged it. Building material from roofs was also blown off in the downtown area. The material that blew off also damaged adjacent buildings.
Semi trailer flipped over. Sheds, silos, and numerous trees down. Damage caused by rear flank downdraft that accompanies tornado. As determined by NWS damage survey.
Several trees were blown down west of Long Prairie, Minnesota. In addition, there were reports of ponding of water on city streets, and standing water in some farm fields.
Very heavy rainfall began across Todd County after 1145 PM CST, Thursday, June 20th. Due to the extreme rainfall rates that continued through 100 AM CST, Friday, June 21st, 4th Street, south of Long Prairie, was inundated with flood waters. The heavy rainfall tapered off after 1 AM CST, June 21st, and flood waters slowly receded during the early morning hours. Parts of the Highway 71 southbound lane near Long Prairie had water covering the lane through 4 AM CST.
This tornado trekked through mostly heavily wooded areas, but did hit one home on the Todd/Morrison county line. Numerous trees were snapped and the house sustained shingle and soffit damage before the tornado crossed into Morrison County. This tornado was associated with the storm that produced downburst damage from 1455 to 1505 from 9 NE Browerville to 5 N Swanville.
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.
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.
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