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One of 15 National Register listings published here for Kandiyohi County · listed in 1992 · category: District.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Sibley State Park CCC/Rustic Style Historic District
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.
The listing
- Address. Off US 71 W of New London, New London, 56273
- When was it listed? January 1992
- Category. district
- Also known as. Minnesota State Park CCC/WPA/Rustic Style MPS
- Township. Lake Andrew township
- Architectural style. National Park Service rustic
- National Register reference number. 89001673 - 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
18 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Sibley State Park CCC/Rustic Style Historic District between 1993 and 2013, burning about 662 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 4 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6 |
| Debris and open burning | 6 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 4 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 July 1993 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.4 acres | Litchfield Wetland Management District | CASEYLAKE |
| 10 June 1995 | Recreation and ceremony | 3.0 acres | Litchfield Wetland Management District | RAYMOND |
| 3 May 1994 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Litchfield Wetland Management District | COKATO |
| 24 May 1997 | Arson/incendiarism | 6.0 acres | Litchfield Wetland Management District | OAK |
| 15 May 1997 | Debris and open burning | 17 acres | Litchfield Wetland Management District | GILBERTS |
| 13 May 1994 | Debris and open burning | 43 acres | Litchfield Wetland Management District | SWANLAKE3 |
| 12 May 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 7.0 acres | Litchfield Wetland Management District | FLORIDA SLOUGH WF |
| 8 April 2000 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Litchfield Wetland Management District | MUD LAKE |
Mines and quarries near this property
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Sibley State Park CCC/Rustic Style Historic District: 2 producers. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Goodall Pit No 1 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Ringo Lake Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this property
51 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names New London, the town this property stands in, in 51 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 32 hail, 10 thunderstorm wind, 4 tornado, 3 funnel cloud. 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 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | New London | $200,000 | A large machine shed was destroyed. Several dozen large trees and power poles were uprooted or broken. A pontoon was flipped and there was some soffit and shingle damage to a couple houses. |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | New London | $50,000 | A spotter with New London Fire and EMS measured 68 mph winds just southeast of Lake Andrew. |
| July 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | New London | $10,000 | Several power poles were blown down near New London. |
| July 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | New London | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts downed a tree in New London. |
| August 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | New London | - | Trees and power lines were down north of Spicer. |
| July 2023 | Tornado (EF0) | New London | - | A brief tornado formed along a quasi-linear convective system (QLCS) and moved into New London. It took part of the roof off of three homes and a large shed. Other homes sustained shingle, soffit, and siding damage. At least 200 trees were broken or uprooted. Some of the adjacent damage appeared to be associated with inflow winds. The tornado was associated with a surge in the QLCS which then caused damaging downburst winds that started several miles west of New London and continued into Meeker County (see separate entries). |
| July 2018 | Funnel Cloud | New London | - | Funnel clouds were reported between Spicer, and Paynesville, on Highway 23. |
| August 2015 | Tornado (EF0) | New London | - | There was a brief touchdown just north of Norway Lake. It was mostly over an open field, but it did hit a couple trees. The tornado was filmed by multiple storm chasers and witnessed by fire department personnel. |
| August 2015 | Tornado (EF0) | New London | - | There was a brief touchdown just north of Games Lake. It was over an open field, and was filmed by multiple storm chasers. |
| August 2015 | Funnel Cloud | New London | - | Several funnel clouds were reported north of New London. |
| August 2013 | Tornado (EF0) | New London | - | Large branches were down, some corn was damaged, and a heavy cap was lifted off some farm equipment. Two storm chasers photographed/videod the storm while other chasers were caught in the rain or behind rain curtains and their view was shrouded. |
| June 2012 | Heavy Rain | New London | - | An observer measured 3.21 inches of rainfall in the last 24 hours. |
| May 2008 | Hail | New London | - | Hail reported at County Road 40. |
| May 2008 | Hail | New London | - | Hail occurred at County Road 36 Northwest of Norway Lake. |
| May 2008 | Hail | New London | - | Hail reported at Sibley State Park. |
| July 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | New London | - | A tree was downed onto North Shore Drive. |
| September 2005 | Hail | New London | - | Golf ball sized hail fell at Games Lake. A number of campers at the lake campground suffered dents and puncture holes in awnings. |
| June 2003 | Flash Flood | New London | - | Flooding occurred in northern portion of county. New London recieved three inches of rain in 30 minutes. Parking lots and interesctions were flooded in Spicer. |
| July 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | New London | - | Power lines down. Winds estimated. |
| May 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | New London | - | Roof torn off restaurant. |
| July 1995 | Hail | New London | - | Eight mile hail swath from just southeast of New London ,to the county line northeast of Hawick. Hail produced extensive crop damage. |
| September 2019 | Hail | New London | - | no account filed |
| June 2017 | Hail | New London | - | no account filed |
| July 2017 | Hail | New London | - | no account filed |
| July 2017 | Hail | New London | - | no account filed |
| July 2017 | Hail | New London | - | no account filed |
| July 2017 | Hail | New London | - | no account filed |
| July 2017 | Hail | New London | - | no account filed |
| August 2015 | Hail | New London | - | no account filed |
| August 2015 | Hail | New London | - | no account filed |
| August 2013 | Hail | New London | - | no account filed |
| August 2013 | Hail | New London | - | no account filed |
| August 2013 | Hail | New London | - | no account filed |
| July 2008 | Hail | New London | - | no account filed |
| July 2008 | Hail | New London | - | no account filed |
| May 2008 | Hail | New London | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | New London | - | no account filed |
| June 2007 | Hail | New London | - | no account filed |
| April 2005 | Hail | New London | - | no account filed |
| September 2005 | Hail | New London | - | no account filed |
| June 2003 | Hail | New London | - | no account filed |
| July 2002 | Hail | New London | - | no account filed |
| August 2001 | Hail | New London | - | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Hail | New London | - | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Hail | New London | - | no account filed |
| August 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | New London | - | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Hail | New London | - | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Hail | New London | - | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Hail | New London | - | no account filed |
| July 1996 | Funnel Cloud | New London | - | no account filed |
| August 1993 | Thunderstorm Wind | New London | - | 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.
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 89001673 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.