August Tonn Farmstead

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.

From the record

One of 13 National Register listings published here for Douglas County · listed in 1985 · category: Building.

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

The listing

Listed as. Tonn, August, Farmstead - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. CR 65, Carlos, 56319
When was it listed? September 1985
Category. building
Township. Carlos township
National Register reference number. 85002485 - 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

16 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of August Tonn Farmstead between 1993 and 2010, burning about 93 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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	10
Recreation and ceremony	2
Arson/incendiarism	2
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
23 August 1996	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
4 May 1997	Debris and open burning	7.0 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
3 May 1997	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
2 May 2003	Recreation and ceremony	2.0 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
18 May 2009	Equipment and vehicle use	3.1 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
11 May 1996	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
3 April 2010	Debris and open burning	28 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
21 April 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Douglas County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of August Tonn Farmstead: 2 producers. All of them still produce. 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
	R & R Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
	Wonderlake Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Douglas County

Storms near this property

19 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Carlos, the town this property stands in, in 19 storm reports between 1996 and 2022: 11 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 1 funnel cloud, 1 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 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Carlos	$5,000	Several trees were blown down in Carlos, with damage to a garage door.
July 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Carlos	-	A few large tree branches were blown down near Carlos.
June 2018	Hail	Carlos	-	The local park ranger reported nickel size hail for approximately 3 minutes northwest of Carlos.
July 2017	Tornado (EF0)	Carlos	-	Hundreds of trees were uprooted or broken near Lake Carlos. Some trees fell on power lines. No structural damage was noted or reported.
July 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Carlos	-	Several large tree branches were blown down in Carlos.
August 2010	Hail	Carlos	-	Winds were estimated around 45 mph, along with dime size hail and 1.18 inches of rainfall.
August 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Carlos	-	Trees down.
August 2007	Hail	Carlos	-	Hail was reported at Lake Carlos State Park.
June 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Carlos	-	Few trees downed at Lake Carlos State Park. This was the first report from a complex of storms that would enter Todd and Morrison Counties, and which produced the tornado 4 ESE Long Prairie at 1355. The last report from this batch of storms was in Morrison County at 1430.
July 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Carlos	-	Tree down, slight damage to home.
June 2012	Hail	Carlos	-	no account filed
July 2008	Hail	Carlos	-	no account filed
August 2007	Hail	Carlos	-	no account filed
August 2005	Hail	Carlos	-	no account filed
June 2003	Hail	Carlos	-	no account filed
August 2002	Hail	Carlos	-	no account filed
June 1998	Hail	Carlos	-	no account filed
October 1996	Hail	Carlos	-	no account filed
July 1996	Funnel Cloud	Carlos	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Douglas 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

2 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
	Lake Carlos State Park WPA/Rustic Style Historic District	2.8 miles	1992
	Lake Carlos State Park WPA/Rustic Style Group Camp	3.0 miles	1992

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 85002485 in Record Group 79.
Douglas County	All 13 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.