BlockFrom the record
One of 15 National Register listings published here for Kandiyohi County · listed in 1987 · category: District.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
John Bosch Farmstead
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.
The listing
- Listed as. Bosch, John, Farmstead - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
- Address. 8191 CR 4 SE, Lake Lillian, 56209
- When was it listed? April 1987
- Category. district
- Township. Lake Elizabeth township
- National Register reference number. 87000620 - 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
3 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of John Bosch Farmstead between 2000 and 2015, burning about 11 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Other causes | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 July 2013 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Litchfield Wetland Management District | YARMON WF |
| 6 May 2015 | Other causes | 7.0 acres | Litchfield Wetland Management District | YARMON WF |
| 4 April 2000 | Arson/incendiarism | 3.0 acres | Litchfield Wetland Management District | MEEKER |
Mines and quarries near this property
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of John Bosch Farmstead: 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hall Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this property
18 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lake Lillian, the town this property stands in, in 18 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 10 hail, 7 thunderstorm wind, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lake Lillian | - | Trees down in Lake Lillian and Prinsburg. |
| June 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lake Lillian | - | Downed tree reported in Big Kandiyohi Lake County Park East. |
| June 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lake Lillian | - | Power lines were blown down. |
| September 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lake Lillian | - | Several trees and large branches were broken. |
| July 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lake Lillian | - | Several trees and power lines downed. |
| June 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lake Lillian | - | Scattered trees down. This was the beginning of a large swath of wind damage that extended into Meeker, Renville and McLeod Counties between 2025 and 2110 CST. Winds in this wide swath were from the west-northwest. |
| May 2000 | Tornado (F1) | Lake Lillian | - | Barn down, house pushed slightly off its foundation, numerous trees down, numerous home windows damaged. |
| May 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lake Lillian | - | Two 70 foot pine trees toppled. |
| June 1997 | Hail | Lake Lillian | - | Hail swath continued from Lake Lillian to Renville county border. Significant crop damage. |
| August 2023 | Hail | Lake Lillian | - | no account filed |
| July 2023 | Hail | Lake Lillian | - | no account filed |
| July 2020 | Hail | Lake Lillian | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Lake Lillian | - | no account filed |
| May 2000 | Hail | Lake Lillian | - | no account filed |
| May 2000 | Hail | Lake Lillian | - | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Hail | Lake Lillian | - | no account filed |
| July 1997 | Hail | Lake Lillian | - | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Hail | Lake Lillian | - | no account filed |
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 milesOther 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Broman, Andreas, Johanna, Anna and Frank E., Farmstead | 4.2 miles | 1991 | |
 | Hotel Atwater | 6.8 miles | 1986 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 87000620 in Record Group 79. |
| Kandiyohi County | All 15 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.
- 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.