Fire Hall
Fire Hall is a museum in Minnesota, at a modelled elevation of 376 m. The nearest named place is General Store & Post Office, a museum less than a tenth of a mile away. Great River Road passes 43 miles off.
Built on site in 2000, it houses the three earliest motorized fire engines in the county, plus hand hose carts and vintage fire extinguishers from earliest bucket brigades to vintage back packs, and provides views of the still used 1906 Owatonna Fire Hall
What to expect
- Operated by
- Steele County HIstoric Society
How to reach it
- 42.8 mi off the Great River Road, National
Named places within 25 miles
- Trophy Case: 0.1 mi
- Fairgrounds Park: 0.1 mi
- Steele County Community Center: 0.3 mi
- Owatonna Soccer Complex: 0.5 mi
- Sid Kinyon Park: 0.6 mi
- MN Pheasants, Inc.: 1.6 mi
- Somerset Wildlife Management Area: 2.9 mi
- Prairie Rose Wildlife Management Area: 5.7 mi
- Swan Wildlife Management Area: 6.9 mi
- Little Fawn Wildlife Management Area: 7.0 mi
- General Store & Post Office: 0.0 mi
- Duluth Missabe & Iron Range Caboose: 0.0 mi
- Farm Machinery Building: 0.0 mi
- Bixby Depot: 0.0 mi
- Museum of Professionals: 0.0 mi
- Steele County Veterans Memorial: 0.2 mi
- Veterans Memorial: 14.4 mi
- Alexander Faribault House: 15.6 mi
- Rice County Veterans Memorial: 15.8 mi
- Wasioja Seminary Ruins: 20.0 mi
- Rice County Fairgrounds: 17.0 mi
- Dodge County Fairgrounds: 23.6 mi
- Voyager Valley Teepee: 24.4 mi
- Lansing Corners: 24.9 mi
- Lighter Than Some: 3.3 mi
- Regeneration: 3.5 mi
- Between Earth and Sky: 25.0 mi
- Molly Falls: 19.6 mi
- Caron Park Falls: 19.6 mi
- Hidden Falls: 20.1 mi
- Lake Kohlmeier Beach: 1.4 mi
- Mount Krystosek: 20.6 mi
- Janesville Community Gardens: 24.6 mi
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:17 | 18:47 | 19:25 |
| June solstice | 05:31 | 20:16 | 21:00 |
| September equinox | 07:01 | 18:34 | 19:12 |
| December solstice | 07:45 | 15:50 | 16:38 |
Local time (America/Chicago).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Sep.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 14 | 18 | 31 | 45 | 57 | 68 | 72 | 70 | 62 | 48 | 33 | 20 |
| Precip in | 0.9 | 0.9 | 2.0 | 3.2 | 4.6 | 5.3 | 4.8 | 4.8 | 3.8 | 2.5 | 1.7 | 1.1 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Owatonna, 2 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
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