Sherburn Commercial Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.

From the record

One of 8 National Register listings published here for Martin County · listed in 1987 · category: District.

Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. Main St. N between Front and Second Sts., Sherburn, 56171
When was it listed? August 1987
Category. district
City. Sherburn city
National Register reference number. 87001303 - 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 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Sherburn Commercial Historic District between 2007 and 2013, burning about 100 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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
Arson/incendiarism	2
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
28 April 2013	Arson/incendiarism	5.0 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
18 April 2007	Arson/incendiarism	50 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
23 October 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	45 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Martin County

Storms near this property

24 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sherburn, the town this property stands in, in 24 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 13 hail, 8 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 heavy rain. 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 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Sherburn	$50,000	A tree was uprooted and fell onto a car and building causing significant damage in Sherburn.
August 2025	Flash Flood	Sherburn	-	The Emergency Manager reported flooding in Dunnell with several homes having water up to 4 inches deep in basements. There was damage a waste water facility as well. Several gravel roads were damaged including in Jay Township and Lake Fremont Township.
July 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Sherburn	-	A large tree was blown down at 261st and County Road 5 in Sherburn, Minnesota.
August 2007	Flash Flood	Sherburn	-	Significant street flooding was reported across much of the city.
June 2005	Hail	Sherburn	-	Golf ball sized hail fell at the intersection of Interstate 90 and County Road 7.
April 2004	Hail	Sherburn	-	A handful of gutters and cars were dented.
April 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Sherburn	-	A few tree limbs were downed.
August 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Sherburn	-	A wind gust of 60 MPH was reported by law enforcement. A wind gust of 55 MPH was measured by a spotter in town where tree branches were downed.
August 2004	Heavy Rain	Sherburn	-	Streets and basements were flooded by an estimated 3 to 4 inches of rain.
June 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Sherburn	-	Measured by Skywarn spotter.
May 2024	Hail	Sherburn	-	no account filed
April 2022	Hail	Sherburn	-	no account filed
May 2012	Hail	Sherburn	-	no account filed
May 2012	Hail	Sherburn	-	no account filed
May 2011	Hail	Sherburn	-	no account filed
April 2010	Hail	Sherburn	-	no account filed
June 2005	Hail	Sherburn	-	no account filed
June 2005	Hail	Sherburn	-	no account filed
June 2005	Hail	Sherburn	-	no account filed
May 2004	Hail	Sherburn	-	no account filed
June 1999	Hail	Sherburn	-	no account filed
June 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Sherburn	-	no account filed
June 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Sherburn	-	no account filed
May 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Sherburn	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Martin 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	Property	Distance	Listed
	Sherburn Community Building	under 500 feet	2021

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 87001303 in Record Group 79.
Martin County	All 8 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.