Photograph of Fairfax station — Photograph by McGhiever, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Minneapolis and St. Louis Depot

Built in 1883. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.

From the record

“Louis Depot in Fairfax, Minnesota, United States, is a one-story, stucco-covered wood-frame building with a gabled roof built in 1883 by the Minneapolis and St. The interior of the depot includes a waiting room, freight room, and central office.”
Wikipedia article Fairfax station, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 9 National Register listings published here for Renville County · listed in 1986 · category: Building · built in 1883.

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. Park St. and Second Ave. S, Fairfax, 55332
When was it listed? July 1986
Category. building
City. Fairfax city
When was it built? 1883
National Register reference number. 86001921 - 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

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Minneapolis and St. Louis Depot: 1 producer. 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
	Marlowe Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Renville County

Storms near this property

25 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fairfax, the town this property stands in, in 25 storm reports between 1994 and 2022: 13 hail, 8 thunderstorm wind, 2 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
June 2014	Flood	Fairfax	$750,000	Several county roads and highways were damaged due to flood waters, especially along the Minnesota River Valley area.
May 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Fairfax	-	Several trees were blown down in Fairfax.
June 2012	Hail	Fairfax	-	Crop damage was reported due to the combination of strong winds and hail north of Fairfax, along County Road 16.
June 2010	Hail	Fairfax	-	Several reports of golfball and tennis ball size hail occurred east of Fairfax, to Gibbon, Minnesota.
May 2005	Hail	Fairfax	-	Dime sized hail fell in Carro Township.
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Fairfax	-	Trees and large branches were downed.
June 2005	Hail	Fairfax	-	Hail just bigger than a quarter fell on Highway 4 north of town.
June 2005	Funnel Cloud	Fairfax	-	A funnel cloud was spotted by law enforcement.
June 2005	Funnel Cloud	Fairfax	-	A storm chaser reported a "pencil shaped" funnel cloud.
April 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Fairfax	-	A few trees were downed.
July 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Fairfax	-	Large branches were downed onto a highway and corn was flattened.
July 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Fairfax	-	Several trees down. Corn flattened.
July 1999	Hail	Fairfax	-	Ground white with hail.
July 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Fairfax	-	Numerous 6 inch diameter branches down. Winds estimated.
June 1997	Hail	Fairfax	-	Trees also blown down.
August 1994	Tornado (F0)	Fairfax	-	A tornado touched briefly mear Fairfax and reportedly did no damage.
August 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Fairfax	-	Numerouse trees and power lines blown down by strong thunderstorm winds.
July 2022	Hail	Fairfax	-	no account filed
April 2012	Hail	Fairfax	-	no account filed
June 2010	Hail	Fairfax	-	no account filed
July 2003	Hail	Fairfax	-	no account filed
July 2000	Hail	Fairfax	-	no account filed
September 1999	Hail	Fairfax	-	no account filed
October 1998	Hail	Fairfax	-	no account filed
May 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Fairfax	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Renville 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 86001921 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Renville County	All 9 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.