Francis Arnold House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.

From the record

“The Francis Arnold House is a historic house in LeSauk Township, Minnesota, United States. It was built in 1884 for the owner and operator of a gristmill that stood just west of the house, on the bank of the Sauk River just above its confluence with the Mississippi.”
Wikipedia article Francis Arnold House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 36 National Register listings published here for Stearns County · listed in 1994 · category: Building.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Arnold, Francis, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 32268 Co. Rd. 1, LeSauk Township, St. Cloud, 56303
When was it listed? December 1994
Category. building
Architectural style. Italianate architecture
National Register reference number. 94001409 - 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

57 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 57 fires within 5 miles of Francis Arnold House between 1992 and 2018, burning about 173 acres in total. None started naturally. 19 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	19
Debris and open burning	17
Equipment and vehicle use	8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Railroad operations and maintenance	4
Smoking	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Recreation and ceremony	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
12 September 1998	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
27 August 2003	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
12 August 2003	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
11 August 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.1 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
10 August 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
31 July 2007	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
7 June 1997	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
21 June 2008	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Stearns County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Francis Arnold House: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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
	J L Shiely Co Quarry & Mill	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
	Killinger Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Stearns 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
Carter Block	2.1 miles	1986
St. Cloud Veterans Administration Hospital Historic District	2.1 miles	2012
Stearns County Courthouse and Jail	2.1 miles	1982
First National Bank	2.2 miles	1982
Pan Motor Company Office and Sheet Metal Works	2.2 miles	1984
Fifth Avenue Commercial Buildings	2.2 miles	1982

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 94001409 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Stearns 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.