Grey Eagle Village Hall

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.

From the record

“The Grey Eagle Village Hall is a multipurpose municipal building in Grey Eagle, Minnesota, United States. It was built in 1934 as a federally funded New Deal project to create jobs during the Great Depression.”
Wikipedia article Grey Eagle Village Hall, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 14 National Register listings published here for Todd County · listed in 1985 · category: Building.

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. Spruce and Woodman Sts., Grey Eagle, 56336
When was it listed? September 1985
Category. building
City. Grey Eagle city
National Register reference number. 85001992 - 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

44 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 44 fires within 5 miles of Grey Eagle Village Hall between 1992 and 2018, burning about 395 acres in total. None started naturally. 10 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	23
Arson/incendiarism	10
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Recreation and ceremony	2
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
30 September 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
9 August 2006	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
2 July 2006	Smoking	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
28 June 2001	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
23 June 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
20 June 1995	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
2 May 1999	Debris and open burning	20 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
2 May 1992	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Todd County

Storms near this property

14 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Grey Eagle, the town this property stands in, in 14 storm reports between 1997 and 2024: 8 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail. 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 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Grey Eagle	-	Video on social media showing full size pine trees snapped in half.
August 2024	Hail	Grey Eagle	-	Photo measurement provided via social media.
August 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Grey Eagle	-	Photos shared via social media of large tree uprooted.
July 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Grey Eagle	-	Trees down near Buckhead Lake.
July 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Grey Eagle	-	A two mile long swath of tree damage occurred near Grey Eagle. Several of the trees were blocking roads. Power was out in Grey Eagle.
July 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Grey Eagle	-	Estimated Winds, large branches down.
September 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Grey Eagle	-	Trees blown down. Several roofs blown off. Estimated windspeed.
September 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Grey Eagle	-	12 large trees blown down. Trailer homes damaged. Docks destroyed.
August 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Grey Eagle	-	Trees and power lines down. Estimated windspeed.
May 2022	Hail	Grey Eagle	-	no account filed
April 2005	Hail	Grey Eagle	-	no account filed
August 2001	Hail	Grey Eagle	-	no account filed
August 1999	Hail	Grey Eagle	-	no account filed
July 1999	Hail	Grey Eagle	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Todd 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 85001992 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Todd County	All 14 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.