Gull Point State Park, Area A

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.

From the record

One of 12 National Register listings published here for Dickinson County · listed in 1990 · category: District.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. Off IA 86 on W Shore of W Okoboji Lake, Milford, 51351
When was it listed? November 1990
Category. district
Also known as. CCC Properties in Iowa State Parks MPS
Township. Lakeville township
National Register reference number. 90001661 - 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

26 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 26 fires within 5 miles of Gull Point State Park, Area A between 2006 and 2017, burning about 430 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	21
Debris and open burning	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
31 July 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
10 July 2012	Debris and open burning	8.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
9 April 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	60 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	A34, 2235 193RD AVE., OKOBOJI TWP, BY LITTLE SIOUX
9 April 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
7 April 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	25271 182ND ST., CENTER GROVE TWP, SPIRIT LAKE, IA
6 April 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	2305 225TH ST., MILFORD TWP, MILFORD, IA, IA
3 April 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
28 April 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	80 acres	Iowa Wetland Management District	MOLLENDORP

Every fire recorded in Dickinson County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 31 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 31 workings within 5 miles of Gull Point State Park, Area A: 24 past producers, 6 producers, 1 unknown. 6 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Bradbury	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Dickinson County Pits	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Frey Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Leith Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Milford Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Milford Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Milford Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Neppel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Rohlin Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Roth Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Dickinson County

Storms near this property

34 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Milford, the town this property stands in, in 34 storm reports between 1994 and 2016: 15 flood, 9 hail, 8 thunderstorm wind, 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
June 2001	Hail	Milford	$100,000	Large hail caused damage to vehicles, and to the siding and windows of some buildings.
June 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Milford	$50,000	Thunderstorm winds blew down trees and power lines.
July 2010	Lightning	Milford	$5,000	Lightning struck a house and caused a small fire.
June 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Milford	$5,000	Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including large branches blown down.
June 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Milford	$5,000	no account filed
June 1994	Hail	Milford	$5,000	no account filed
April 2016	Flood	Milford	-	Runoff from repeated rains caused minor flooding of agricultural land along the Little Sioux River. The river reached a peak stage 0.8 feet above flood stage at Milford at the end of the month.
June 2014	Flood	Milford	-	Persistent heavy rains caused major flooding of the Little Sioux River. Farmland, other lowlands including parks, and several roads near the river were flooded. Some homes were flooded, mainly in basements. The river crested at 5.37 feet above flood stage at Milford on June 19th.
May 2012	Flood	Milford	-	Runoff from heavy rain caused minor flooding of the Little Sioux River, with lowlands including some farmland and a few roads affected. The river crested at 1.7 feet above flood stage near Milford on May 31st.
June 2011	Flood	Milford	-	Moderate flooding of the Little Sioux River resulted from runoff caused by heavy rain. Lowlands including some farmland along the river were flooded. The river crested at 3.0 feet above flood stage near Milford on June 21st.
February 2011	Flood	Milford	-	Melting snow and resulting runoff caused minor flooding along the Little Sioux River, with unused lowlands mainly affected. The river crested at less than a foot above flood stage at Milford late on February 18th.
July 2011	Flood	Milford	-	Major flooding of the Little Sioux River resulted from runoff caused by heavy rain. Considerable farmland, other lowlands, and several roads were flooded. The river crested at a record 5.5 feet above flood stage near Milford on July 15th.
September 2010	Flood	Milford	-	Heavy rain caused minor to moderate flooding along the Little Sioux River, with farmland and other lowlands affected. A few roads were also flooded. The river crested at 4 feet above flood stage near Milford on September 27th.
October 2010	Flood	Milford	-	Minor to moderate flooding of the Little Sioux River abated and ended during the first few days of the month. A few lowlands along the river and a few roads were flooded at the start of the month.
July 2010	Flood	Milford	-	Heavy rain caused minor to moderate flooding along the Little Sioux River, with lowlands including some agricultural land flooded. The river crested at 2.21 feet above flood stage at Milford on July 26th.
March 2010	Flood	Milford	-	Rapid melting of a heavy winter snowpack resulted in moderate to major flooding of the Little Sioux River. Fields and other lowlands as well as roads near the river were flooded. The Little Sioux River crested at 4.65 feet above flood stage near Milford on March 17th.
February 2009	Flood	Milford	-	Minor flooding along the Little Sioux River resulted from the melting of snow.
June 2008	Flood	Milford	-	Heavy rain caused minor flooding of farmland along the Little Sioux River from June 12th to June 14th, except over the far southern part of Dickinson County, where minor flooding continued from the beginning of June to June 14th.
July 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Milford	-	Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including several branches blown down.
March 2007	Flood	Milford	-	Warm temperatures caused a rapid snowmelt which caused the Little Sioux River to rise above flood stage for several days. The flooding vwas light to moderate, and no significant damage was reported. The river crested at 3.8 feet above flood stage at Milford on March 15th.\|
August 2007	Flood	Milford	-	Very heavy rainfall over several days caused major to record flooding in the headwater area of the Little Sioux River, with lowlands including several roads flooded, and at least one road washed out. The river crested at 4.8 feet above flood stage near Milford on August 23rd.
August 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Milford	-	Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including several trees blown down. The winds also severely damaged crops, mainly corn, along a 3 mile long stretch. The amount of crop damage was not known.
August 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Milford	-	Thunderstorm winds caused crop damage. The amount of crop damage was not known.
June 1999	Flash Flood	Milford	-	Heavy rain caused lowland flooding, including part of highway 71.
April 2006	Flood	Milford	-	no account filed
September 2005	Hail	Milford	-	no account filed
April 2004	Hail	Milford	-	no account filed
May 2004	Hail	Milford	-	no account filed
May 2004	Hail	Milford	-	no account filed
April 2001	Hail	Milford	-	no account filed
June 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Milford	-	no account filed
June 2001	Hail	Milford	-	no account filed
July 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Milford	-	no account filed
May 1999	Hail	Milford	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Dickinson 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
Gull Point State Park, Area B	0.3 miles	1990
Iowa Lakeside Laboratory Historic District	1.0 miles	1991
Pillsbury Point State Park	1.4 miles	1993
Spirit Lake Massacre Log Cabin	2.0 miles	1973
Pikes Point State Park Shelter and Steps	3.1 miles	1990
Spirit Lake Public Library	4.9 miles	1980

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 90001661 in Record Group 79.
Dickinson County	All 12 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.