BlockFrom the record
One of 2 National Register listings published here for Renville County · listed in 1978 · category: Site.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article
Mckinney Cemetery
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 site as contributing to the listing.
- Address. N of Tolley, Tolley, 58787
- When was it listed? December 1978
- Category. site
- Township. McKinney township
- National Register reference number. 78001994 - 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
2 since 2007Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Mckinney Cemetery between 2007 and 2020, burning about 12 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 |
|---|---|
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 August 2007 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Upper Souris National Wildlife Refuge | STARK |
| 7 December 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 12 acres | Upper Souris National Wildlife Refuge | MOUSE PARK |
Mines and quarries near this property
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Mckinney Cemetery: 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Siebert Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this property
33 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tolley, the town this property stands in, in 33 storm reports between 1997 and 2024: 18 hail, 8 thunderstorm wind, 4 flood, 1 flash flood. 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 2011 | Flood | Tolley | $5,000,000 | See the event episode narrative for details. |
| July 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tolley | $700,000 | Strong winds toppled 85 thousand bushel grain bin. The bin had 4 thousand bushel in it at the time. Another grain bin with more grain in it was severely dented toward the top of the bin. |
| August 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tolley | $200,000 | Seven hopper style bins were blown over. |
| August 2024 | Hail | Tolley | $100,000 | The hail combined with thunderstorm wind gusts to destroy a wheat field. |
| June 2014 | Flood | Tolley | $96,000 | Flooding occurred over Renville County. Damage occurred to roads and culverts with many wash outs along township roads. There was crop damage as well. Rain amounts ranged from 2.50 inches in Bottineau County to as much as 7.00 inches in Renville County. |
| May 2010 | Flash Flood | Tolley | $75,000 | Numerous roadways in northeastern Renville County near Sherwood were submerged due to heavy thunderstorm rains. Tree and other debris were also reported on roads. Several roads were reported washed out or closed. |
| June 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tolley | $40,000 | Power lines were down along with tree limbs. One-third of the city of Tolley was without power following the storm. |
| July 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tolley | $25,000 | The strong winds uprooted numerous large trees. |
| July 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tolley | $1,000 | A 12-inch diameter ash tree trunk split. |
| September 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tolley | - | Pea size hail accompanied the strong winds. |
| July 2011 | Flood | Tolley | - | See the event episode narrative for details. |
| June 2011 | Flood | Tolley | - | See the event episode narrative for details. |
| May 2011 | Tornado (EF0) | Tolley | - | A tornado briefly touched down near Tolley in Renville County. The tornado touched down in open country and impacted no structures. No damage occurred with this brief EF0 tornado witnessed by a deputy sheriff. |
| July 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tolley | - | Quanset shop and grain bins demolished. |
| June 2024 | Hail | Tolley | - | no account filed |
| July 2022 | Hail | Tolley | - | no account filed |
| July 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tolley | - | no account filed |
| July 2019 | Hail | Tolley | - | no account filed |
| July 2019 | Hail | Tolley | - | no account filed |
| September 2018 | Hail | Tolley | - | no account filed |
| June 2018 | Hail | Tolley | - | no account filed |
| June 2018 | Funnel Cloud | Tolley | - | no account filed |
| June 2018 | Hail | Tolley | - | no account filed |
| July 2015 | Hail | Tolley | - | no account filed |
| July 2015 | Hail | Tolley | - | no account filed |
| July 2015 | Hail | Tolley | - | no account filed |
| May 2010 | Hail | Tolley | - | no account filed |
| August 2010 | Hail | Tolley | - | no account filed |
| June 2009 | Hail | Tolley | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Tolley | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Hail | Tolley | - | no account filed |
| August 2002 | Hail | Tolley | - | no account filed |
| July 1998 | Hail | Tolley | - | 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 78001994 in Record Group 79. |
| Wikipedia article | Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA. |
| Renville County | All 2 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.