Broman, Andreas, Johanna, Anna and Frank E., Farmstead

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.

From the record

One of 15 National Register listings published here for Kandiyohi County · listed in 1991 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. Off Co. Rd. 8 between Swan Lake and Kasota Lake, Kandiyohi Township, Kandiyohi, 56251
When was it listed? February 1991
Category. district
Township. Kandiyohi township
National Register reference number. 91000098 - 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 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Broman, Andreas, Johanna, Anna and Frank E., Farmstead between 2000 and 2015, burning about 23 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
Recreation and ceremony	1
Other causes	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
20 October 2000	Equipment and vehicle use	15 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Kandiyohi County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Broman, Andreas, Johanna, Anna and Frank E., 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
	Olson Pit No 2	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Kandiyohi County

Storms near this property

16 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kandiyohi, the town this property stands in, in 16 storm reports between 1993 and 2022: 7 hail, 6 tornado, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning. 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 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Kandiyohi	$250,000	A line of severe straight-line winds, estimated over 75 mph, occurred north of Kandiyohi, then southeast to the city of Atwater. Numerous trees were uprooted, several barns were damaged or destroyed, windows were blown out in several communities, and power was out for several hours.
June 2017	Tornado (EF1)	Kandiyohi	$200,000	A tornado was associated with a quasi-linear storm complex. It mostly hit trees and crops, but during the latter half of its path, the tornado did move across or just south of a couple metal farm buildings, causing heavy damage.
May 2022	Hail	Kandiyohi	-	There was a social media picture of 3 inch hail.
May 2022	Hail	Kandiyohi	-	There was a social media picture of 3 inch hail.
June 2003	Tornado (F0)	Kandiyohi	-	This was the first of five tornadoes from one supercell in Kandiyohi County, all of which were videotaped by a storm chaser. This first tornado touched down briefly in an open field.
June 2003	Tornado (F0)	Kandiyohi	-	The second of five tornadoes touched down in an open field.
June 2003	Tornado (F0)	Kandiyohi	-	The third tornado in a series also touched down in an open field. A few trees downed.
June 2003	Tornado (F0)	Kandiyohi	-	The fourth tornado was another brief touchdown in an open field.
June 2003	Tornado (F1)	Kandiyohi	-	The fifth and final tornado from the same supercell moved straight north for two miles, then turned and moved from east to west for one mile as it roped out. During its northward trek, it damaged three farmsteads, knocking down sheds, outbuildings and trees. While traveling west, it moved across corn and bean fields.
June 2001	Hail	Kandiyohi	-	This was the last severe report from the mesocyclone that began in Swift County and produced nine tornadoes from the Danvers area to 1 NW Willmar.
May 1993	Thunderstorm Wind	Kandiyohi	-	Several buildings were destroyed by strong downburst winds.
May 2022	Hail	Kandiyohi	-	no account filed
June 2017	Hail	Kandiyohi	-	no account filed
July 2003	Hail	Kandiyohi	-	no account filed
May 1996	Lightning	Kandiyohi	-	no account filed
June 1994	Hail	Kandiyohi	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Kandiyohi 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

6 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
John Bosch Farmstead	4.2 miles	1987
Willmar Hospital Farm for Inebriates Historic District	6.8 miles	1986
Albert H. and Jennie C. Sperry House	7.0 miles	2020
Willmar Tribune Building	7.3 miles	2007
Willmar Auditorium	7.4 miles	1991
Lakeland Hotel	7.4 miles	2012

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 91000098 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.