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Photograph of Western Bohemian Fraternal Union Hall
Photograph by McGhiever, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Western Bohemian Fraternal Union Hall

Built in 1925. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.

From the record

“The Western Bohemian Fraternal Union Hall is a historic clubhouse in Meadowlands Township, Minnesota, United States. It was built in 1925 as a meeting hall for a lodge of the Western Bohemian Fraternal Union, a society of Czech Americans.”

Wikipedia article Western Bohemian Fraternal Union Hall, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 126 National Register listings published here for St. Louis County · listed in 1986 · category: Building · built in 1925.

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. Co. Hwy. 29, Meadowlands, 55765
  • When was it listed? July 1986
  • Category. building
  • Township. Meadowlands township
  • When was it built? 1925
  • National Register reference number. 86002123 - 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

34 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 34 fires within 5 miles of Western Bohemian Fraternal Union Hall between 1996 and 2018, burning about 90 acres in total. None started naturally. 10 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 burning16
Arson/incendiarism10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Smoking2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
8 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 August 2005Debris and open burning3.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
25 July 2001Debris and open burning2.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 July 2006Smoking1.5 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 May 1996Debris and open burning4.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 May 1998Smokingunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 May 1996Debris and open burning1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
25 May 2002Debris and open burning1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Every fire recorded in St. Louis County

Storms near this property

5 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Meadowlands, the town this property stands in, in 5 storm reports between 2008 and 2022: 3 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind. 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
June 2022Thunderstorm WindMeadowlands-Numerous poplar tree tops were snapped.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindMeadowlands-Multiple trees were downed during the storm along Highway 29 at the St. Louis River near Floodwood. The trees ranged from 6 to 12 inches in diameter with one 12 inch red pine tree completely uprooted.
June 2016HailMeadowlands-Most of the hail was dime-sized, but there were some hail stones up to the size of quarters. The wind gusts were estimated to 40 mph.
June 2016HailMeadowlands-There were hail stones as large as a half dollar among some the size of quarters.
July 2008HailMeadowlands-no account filed

Every storm recorded in St. Louis 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
Church of St. Joseph (Catholic)2.9 miles2002

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 86002123 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
St. Louis CountyAll 126 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.