Photograph of Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Depot — Photograph by McGhiever, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Milwaukee Chicago St. Paul and Pacific Depot

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.

From the record

“Paul and Pacific Depot in Clinton, Minnesota, United States, is a historic railway station. It is now known as the Clinton Depot, and serves as a local history museum for the Clinton area.”
Wikipedia article Clinton station (Minnesota), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 9 National Register listings published here for Big Stone 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.
Listed as. Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Depot - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. Main and Center Sts., Clinton, 56225
When was it listed? July 1986
Category. building
City. Clinton city
National Register reference number. 86002118 - 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

2 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Milwaukee Chicago St. Paul and Pacific Depot between 2003 and 2005, burning about 24 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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
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
7 September 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6.0 acres	Morris National Wildlife Refuge	WAGNER WPA
1 September 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	18 acres	Morris National Wildlife Refuge	GOLDSMITH WPA

Every fire recorded in Big Stone County

Storms near this property

26 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Clinton, the town this property stands in, in 26 storm reports between 1994 and 2022: 12 thunderstorm wind, 11 hail, 3 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 1996	Tornado (F3)	Clinton	$1,500,000	no account filed
October 2021	Tornado (EF0)	Clinton	-	The Graceville, MN Fire Department observed a tornado.
May 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Clinton	-	Some trees were downed in Clinton by seventy mph winds.
June 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Clinton	-	Multiple trees were uprooted and snapped in Clinton by estimated eighty mph winds.
June 2017	Tornado (EF1)	Clinton	-	Storm chasers and residents observed a brief tornado on the leading edge of a line of storms. The tornado moved over one farmstead damaging multiple structures. Over half of the tin roof was ripped from the house along with considerable damage to the siding of the house. One machine shed was completely destroyed. Another machine shed had damage to the southward facing walls and lost over half of the roof. A third machine shed had extensive damage to the westward facing walls and lost over half of the roof. An empty grain bin was completely removed from the cement base and an attached auger was toppled. Another grain bin was dented at the top. One power pole was snapped, with other poles downed due to the weight of the wires. Widespread tree damage including snapped trunks, uprooted trees, and large broken branches occurred on the property. A small area of corn crop was razed to the ground. Some debris was driven into the ground, while other debris was lofted roughly 2000 feet to the northeast.
July 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Clinton	-	Sixty mph winds were estimated.
July 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Clinton	-	Estimated sixty mph winds caused damage to crops.
July 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Clinton	-	Eighty mph winds downed several trees with several telephone poles leaning.
July 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Clinton	-	A very large cottonwood tree was uprooted by ninety mph winds.
July 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Clinton	-	Numerous large trees were downed on a farm southeast of Clinton.
July 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Clinton	-	Eighty mph winds plus caused widespread tree and structural damage on a farm southeast of Clinton. Many trees were downed. Two outbuildings lost their roofs with significant damage to one of the outbuildings. A garage was completely moved off of its foundation and destroyed.
July 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Clinton	-	A large cottonwood tree was downed by the very strong winds.
July 1994	Hail	Clinton	-	The combination of large hail and strong winds destroyed over 120,000 acres of crops. Estimated damage costs were up to $15 million across Big Stone County
June 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Clinton	-	no account filed
July 2018	Hail	Clinton	-	no account filed
June 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Clinton	-	no account filed
May 2014	Hail	Clinton	-	no account filed
July 2010	Hail	Clinton	-	no account filed
July 2010	Hail	Clinton	-	no account filed
August 2004	Hail	Clinton	-	no account filed
August 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Clinton	-	no account filed
June 2003	Hail	Clinton	-	no account filed
July 1998	Hail	Clinton	-	no account filed
May 1996	Hail	Clinton	-	no account filed
May 1996	Hail	Clinton	-	no account filed
July 1996	Hail	Clinton	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Big Stone 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
	St. Pauli Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Church	2.3 miles	2010
	Graceville Historical Marker	7.5 miles	2004

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 86002118 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Big Stone 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.
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.