Milaca Municipal Hall

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.

From the record

“The Milaca Municipal Hall or Milaca City Hall, located at 145 Central Ave, South in Milaca, Minnesota, United States, was built using fieldstone, brick, and concrete. The building is a typical example of construction performed by the Works Progress Administration during the Great Depression.”
Wikipedia article Milaca Municipal Hall, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 7 National Register listings published here for Mille Lacs 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. 145 Central Ave, S., Milaca, 56353
When was it listed? September 1985
Category. building
City. Milaca city
Architectural style. Streamline Moderne
National Register reference number. 85002201 - 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

124 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 124 fires within 5 miles of Milaca Municipal Hall between 1992 and 2020, burning about 527 acres in total. None started naturally. 6 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	83
Equipment and vehicle use	16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	9
Smoking	7
Arson/incendiarism	6
Recreation and ceremony	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
27 September 1992	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
23 September 2000	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
25 July 2019	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
7 May 1992	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
6 May 2013	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
6 May 2000	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
5 May 1995	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
4 May 2003	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Mille Lacs County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Milaca Municipal Hall: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Mille Lacs Aggr. & Concrete Pl	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown

Every working recorded in Mille Lacs County

Storms near this property

42 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Milaca, the town this property stands in, in 42 storm reports between 1994 and 2021: 20 hail, 15 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 2 heavy rain. 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 2019	Tornado (EF1)	Milaca	$200,000	A NWS storm survey indicated that an EF-1 tornado touched down in a field just east of Mille Lacs County Road 4, and tracked to the southeast. EF-1 damage occurred along 70th Avenue where a large pole barn was completely destroyed. A nearby home also saw about half of its roof decking lifted off. Dozens of trees were broken or uprooted. The maximum winds were estimated at 90 mph.
August 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Milaca	-	A few large trees were blown down north of Milaca.
July 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Milaca	-	Farm equipment was blown over and damaged. In addition, 800 pound hay bales were blown across the farm.
August 2016	Flash Flood	Milaca	-	Significant flooding was reported in both Milaca & Borgholm Townships. Some areas had as much as 8 inches of flowing water in Milaca, and water was a couple feet deep on roads around the high school, with one car floating down a road.
August 2016	Heavy Rain	Milaca	-	A measured rainfall report of 4.50 inches occurred near Milaca.
July 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Milaca	-	Power lines and a large tree were blown down in the eastern part of Milaca.
July 2015	Heavy Rain	Milaca	-	A rainfall amount of 2.11 inches occurred in Milaca in less than an hour.
May 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Milaca	-	A Minnesota Department of Transportation Wind Sensor measured a wind gust of 68 knots.
July 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Milaca	-	Several large trees were uprooted.
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Milaca	-	Three to four inch diameter tree limbs severed.
August 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Milaca	-	Twenty inch diameter tree down.
September 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Milaca	-	At least twenty trees 8 to 14 inches in diameter snapped off.
August 2007	Hail	Milaca	-	Winds also estimated at 50 mph.
July 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Milaca	-	Fifteen inch diameter tree toppled.
May 2007	Hail	Milaca	-	Torrential rain and estimated gusts to 45 mph also reported.
June 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Milaca	-	Few trees down, including one on a car and truck.
July 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Milaca	-	Hundreds of trees down. Two barns and one shed down.
July 2000	Tornado (F0)	Milaca	-	Touched down in open field. No damage.
June 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Milaca	-	Estimated windspeed.
September 1998	Hail	Milaca	-	Roof damage to multiple farmsteads. Broken windows. At least 5 automobiles totalled. Many vehicles with hail damage.
October 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Milaca	-	Trees down. Estimated windspeed.
June 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Milaca	-	A number of trees were blown down by strong winds.
August 2016	Hail	Milaca	-	no account filed
July 2015	Hail	Milaca	-	no account filed
May 2012	Hail	Milaca	-	no account filed
May 2011	Hail	Milaca	-	no account filed
May 2011	Hail	Milaca	-	no account filed
July 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Milaca	-	no account filed
May 2008	Hail	Milaca	-	no account filed
July 2007	Hail	Milaca	-	no account filed
April 2004	Hail	Milaca	-	no account filed
August 2002	Hail	Milaca	-	no account filed
July 2002	Hail	Milaca	-	no account filed
September 2002	Hail	Milaca	-	no account filed
June 2001	Hail	Milaca	-	no account filed
June 2001	Hail	Milaca	-	no account filed
July 2000	Hail	Milaca	-	no account filed
July 1999	Hail	Milaca	-	no account filed
December 1999	Strong Wind	Milaca	-	no account filed
September 1998	Hail	Milaca	-	no account filed
August 1997	Hail	Milaca	-	no account filed
July 1996	Funnel Cloud	Milaca	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Mille Lacs 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

1 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
	Mille Lacs County Courthouse	0.4 miles	1977

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 85002201 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Mille Lacs County	All 7 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.