Swede Prairie Progressive Farmers' Club

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.

From the record

One of 5 National Register listings published here for Yellow Medicine County · listed in 1986 · category: Building.

Sources: 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. Co. Hwy. 9, Clarkfield, 56264
When was it listed? June 1986
Category. building
Township. Swede Prairie township
National Register reference number. 86001331 - 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.

Storms near this property

27 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Clarkfield, the town this property stands in, in 27 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 15 hail, 8 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 1 lightning. 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
June 2002	Tornado (F1)	Clarkfield	$50,000	Tornado started in Lac Qui Parle County and ended in Yellow Medicine County. It destroyed one third of a turkey barn south of Clarkfield.
August 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Clarkfield	-	Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at 58 mph snapped a large tree off a weeping willow east of Clarkfield.
June 2024	Hail	Clarkfield	-	The hail stone was photographed by a trained spotter.
May 2022	Hail	Clarkfield	-	There was a social media picture of 3 inch hail.
August 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Clarkfield	-	Several trees were blown down between Clarkfield to Hazel Run. Crop damage was also noted throughout the county.
June 2007	Hail	Clarkfield	-	Hail occurred along Highway 67.
July 2006	Heavy Rain	Clarkfield	-	Four and one tenth inches of rain fell at a farm in Stony Run township.
May 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Clarkfield	-	A small shed was destroyed.
June 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Clarkfield	-	Few trees down. Mobile construction office tipped over.
August 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Clarkfield	-	Power pole snapped in half.
June 2001	Tornado (F0)	Clarkfield	-	Tornado touched down in open field. No damage reported.
May 2000	Hail	Clarkfield	-	Home windows broken, water left standing in fields.
May 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Clarkfield	-	Estimated winds. Damage survey indicated damage to numerous barns, sheds, power lines, and trees. Downburst swath was approximately 5 miles wide and 7 miles long.
May 2000	Hail	Clarkfield	-	Wind driven hail produced major damage to numerous houses and other property.
June 1998	Hail	Clarkfield	-	Hailed for 10 minutes.
July 1997	Lightning	Clarkfield	-	Barn struck by lightning.
October 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Clarkfield	-	Trees blown down. Estimated windspeed.
May 2022	Hail	Clarkfield	-	no account filed
July 2017	Hail	Clarkfield	-	no account filed
July 2017	Hail	Clarkfield	-	no account filed
July 2006	Hail	Clarkfield	-	no account filed
June 2005	Hail	Clarkfield	-	no account filed
May 2004	Hail	Clarkfield	-	no account filed
June 2002	Hail	Clarkfield	-	no account filed
May 2000	Hail	Clarkfield	-	no account filed
September 1998	Hail	Clarkfield	-	no account filed
July 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Clarkfield	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Yellow Medicine 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 86001331 in Record Group 79.
Yellow Medicine County	All 5 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.
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.