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Photograph of Clarks Grove Cooperative Creamery
Photograph by Jonathunder, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Clarks Grove Cooperative Creamery

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.

From the record

“The Clarks Grove Cooperative Creamery is a historic creamery in Clarks Grove, Minnesota, United States. It was established in 1890 as one of the first cooperative creameries in Minnesota.”

Wikipedia article Clarks Grove Cooperative Creamery, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 8 National Register listings published here for Freeborn County · listed in 1986 · 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. Main St. E and Independence Ave., Clarks Grove, 56016
  • When was it listed? March 1986
  • Category. building
  • City. Clarks Grove city
  • National Register reference number. 86000480 - 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.

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 Clarks Grove Cooperative Creamery: 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Don WayneSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Don Wayne PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Freeborn County

Storms near this property

17 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Clarks Grove, the town this property stands in, in 17 storm reports between 1997 and 2022: 9 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 funnel cloud, 2 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2019Thunderstorm WindClarks Grove-Several trees and large tree branches were blown down east of Clarks Grove.
June 2015Flash FloodClarks Grove-Two to three inches of rain fell in a small area of north central Freeborn County near Clarks Grove. There was a picture from social media of a flooded park which had 2-3 feet of standing water, which affected a large part of the outdoor shelter and play area.
June 2012Thunderstorm WindClarks Grove-Power was lost in the town of Clarks Grove due to a severe wind gust.
June 2010Tornado (EF1)Clarks Grove-This tornado touched down near the intersection of Interstate 35 and Freeborn County Road 31. Multiple outbuildings were destroyed and numerous large trees were broken or toppled. It exited Freeborn County just north of Geneva, where it continued into Steele County.
June 2007Funnel CloudClarks Grove-Funnel cloud was in dissipation stage.
June 2004Thunderstorm WindClarks Grove-A 60 MPH wind gust was measured by a HAM radio operator at the intersection of county roads 20 and 31.
June 1998Tornado (F0)Clarks Grove-Remained over farm fields. Crop damage.
May 2022HailClarks Grove-no account filed
May 2017HailClarks Grove-no account filed
June 2015HailClarks Grove-no account filed
June 2015HailClarks Grove-no account filed
May 2014HailClarks Grove-no account filed
June 2007HailClarks Grove-no account filed
June 2007HailClarks Grove-no account filed
August 2006HailClarks Grove-no account filed
June 2004HailClarks Grove-no account filed
July 1997Funnel CloudClarks Grove-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Freeborn 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 PropertyDistance Listed
Dr. Albert C. Wedge House8.0 miles1986

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 86000480 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Freeborn CountyAll 8 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.
  • 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.