BlockFrom the record
One of 7 National Register listings published here for Mille Lacs County · listed in 1985 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Onamia Municipal Hall
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Address. Main and Birch Sts., Onamia, 56359
- When was it listed? September 1985
- Category. building
- Township. Onamia township
- National Register reference number. 85002333 - 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
174 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 174 fires within 5 miles of Onamia Municipal Hall between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,484 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 49 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 | 61 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 49 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 26 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 18 |
| Smoking | 7 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 7 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 4 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Other causes | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24 September 1992 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 14 September 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 3 August 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 27 August 1996 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 27 August 1996 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 26 August 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 21 August 1995 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 2 August 2004 | Natural | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Storms near this property
25 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Onamia, the town this property stands in, in 25 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 13 hail, 9 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Onamia | $250,000 | Two large barns had their roof structure uplifted and blown off south of Onamia. |
| June 2001 | Flash Flood | Onamia | $10,000 | Several roads flooded. Basements flooded in Wahkon. Four and seven tenths inches of rain at Gull Lake. |
| July 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Onamia | $10,000 | Numerous trees down, some falling on homes. |
| April 2025 | Hail | Onamia | - | A few quarter size hailstones mixed in with mainly pea size hail. |
| June 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Onamia | - | The Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe Tribal Emergency Management showed a few trees that were blown down in the city of Onamia. |
| July 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Onamia | - | The local emergency manager indicated that a few trees and power lines were blown down from southwest of Onamia, to the Kanabec County line. |
| July 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Onamia | - | A few trees were blown down in the city of Onamia. |
| July 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Onamia | - | Trees down across access road in Mille Lacs camp ground. |
| August 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Onamia | - | Large trees down on Hwy. 169. |
| July 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Onamia | - | Tree downed over road. |
| October 2006 | Hail | Onamia | - | Hail covered the ground to a depth of 3 inches. |
| June 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Onamia | - | 4 inch branches down. Outdoor furniture blown around. |
| September 1997 | Tornado (F3) | Onamia | - | Several buildings destroyed and numerous other buildings damaged. Hundreds of trees down. A number of cattle killed in barn collapse. Damage estimate included in entry for Morrison county. Total path length from 1 NE of Lastup to Onamia was 17 miles. |
| July 2017 | Hail | Onamia | - | no account filed |
| July 2017 | Hail | Onamia | - | no account filed |
| June 2015 | Hail | Onamia | - | no account filed |
| September 2014 | Hail | Onamia | - | no account filed |
| September 2014 | Hail | Onamia | - | no account filed |
| July 2014 | Hail | Onamia | - | no account filed |
| July 2014 | Hail | Onamia | - | no account filed |
| July 2014 | Hail | Onamia | - | no account filed |
| July 2014 | Hail | Onamia | - | no account filed |
| June 2007 | Hail | Onamia | - | no account filed |
| July 1999 | Funnel Cloud | Onamia | - | no account filed |
| September 1997 | Hail | Onamia | - | no account filed |
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 85002333 in Record Group 79. |
| 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.
- 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.