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One of 36 National Register listings published here for Fillmore County · listed in 1994 · category: District.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Wykoff Commercial Historic District
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.
The listing
- Address. 100 S. Gold--123 N. Gold St., Wykoff, 55990
- When was it listed? August 1994
- Category. district
- Township. Fillmore township
- National Register reference number. 94000831 - 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
10 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Wykoff Commercial Historic District between 1995 and 2020, burning about 19 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Fireworks | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 August 2012 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 4 July 2020 | Fireworks | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 22 April 1996 | Smoking | 3.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 15 April 2004 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 26 November 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 26 November 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 18 November 1999 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 14 November 1995 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Wykoff Commercial Historic District: 8 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grabau Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Brehmer Mine | Iron | Past Producer | ||
| Engel Mine | Iron | Past Producer | ||
| Evers No 2 Mine | Iron | Past Producer | ||
| Hewitt Mine | Iron | Past Producer | ||
| Holsapple Mine | Iron | Past Producer | ||
| Otto Meyer Jr | Iron | Past Producer | ||
| Sorum Portable Crusher No. 1 | Iron | Producer | ||
| Van Sande Mine | Iron | Past Producer | ||
| Winter Mine | Iron | Past Producer |
Storms near this property
11 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wykoff, the town this property stands in, in 11 storm reports between 2000 and 2025: 7 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 heavy rain, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2019 | Tornado (EF0) | Wykoff | $20,000 | A tornado briefly touched down east of Spring Valley. A cattle barn was heavily damaged just north of County Highway 16. |
| August 2000 | Hail | Wykoff | $18,000 | no account filed |
| July 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wykoff | $5,000 | The winds from a thunderstorm damaged the roof to the Kingsland Middle School. |
| August 2000 | Hail | Wykoff | $3,500 | no account filed |
| May 2025 | Hail | Wykoff | - | A trained spotter reported hail up to ping pong ball sized with the majority of stones being penny to quarter sized. |
| June 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wykoff | - | A report of a 64 mph wind gust from a trained spotter was relayed through dispatch. |
| June 2018 | Heavy Rain | Wykoff | - | The COOP observer east of Spring Valley measured 6.62 inches of rain. |
| May 2017 | Hail | Wykoff | - | no account filed |
| November 2015 | Hail | Wykoff | - | no account filed |
| July 2013 | Hail | Wykoff | - | no account filed |
| August 2004 | Hail | Wykoff | - | 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
6 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Francis H. Bartlett House | under 500 feet | 1984 |
 | Forestville Townsite-Meighan Store | 5.0 miles | 1973 |
 | Spring Valley Mausoleum | 5.8 miles | 1982 |
| Tunnel Mill | 5.9 miles | 1975 | |
 | Bridge No. 5722 | 6.2 miles | 2011 |
 | Spring Valley Carnegie Library | 6.3 miles | 1982 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 94000831 in Record Group 79. |
| Fillmore County | All 36 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.