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One of 10 National Register listings published here for Koochiching County · listed in 2000 · category: District.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Ernest C. Oberholtzer Rainy Lake Islands Historic District
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.
The listing
- Listed as. Oberholtzer, Ernest C., Rainy Lake Islands Historic District - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
- Address. Mallard, Hawk and Crow Islands in Rainy Lake, Ranier, 56649
- When was it listed? June 2000
- Category. district
- Unorganized territory. Rainy Lake
- National Register reference number. 00000570 - 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
37 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 37 fires within 5 miles of Ernest C. Oberholtzer Rainy Lake Islands Historic District between 1992 and 2018, burning about 35 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 3 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 |
|---|---|
| Recreation and ceremony | 15 |
| Debris and open burning | 12 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 September 2017 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 20 September 1998 | Natural | under an acre | Voyageurs National Park | LONE PINE |
| 18 September 2012 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 1 September 2006 | Recreation and ceremony | 2.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 9 August 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 9 August 1992 | Natural | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 8 August 1997 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 6 August 2002 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Mines and quarries near this property
4 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Ernest C. Oberholtzer Rainy Lake Islands Historic District: 2 unknowns, 1 past producer, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Sulfur-Pyrite. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Little America Mine | Gold, Sulfur-Pyrite | Past Producer | 1893, 1894 | |
| Bushyhead Island Prospect | Gold | Unknown | Gold | |
| Grassy Island Prospect | Gold | Unknown | Gold | |
| Lyle Mine | Gold | Occurrence | Gold |
Storms near this property
9 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ranier, the town this property stands in, in 9 storm reports between 1995 and 2022: 8 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2007 | Hail | Ranier | - | Quarter-sized hail. |
| April 2005 | Hail | Ranier | - | The hail fell for 10 minutes. |
| August 1995 | Hail | Ranier | - | Numerous reports of broken windshields and glass. Sheetmetal and fiberglass damage to light buildings. |
| May 2022 | Hail | Ranier | - | no account filed |
| May 2006 | Hail | Ranier | - | no account filed |
| April 2005 | Hail | Ranier | - | no account filed |
| May 2005 | Hail | Ranier | - | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ranier | - | no account filed |
| August 1996 | Hail | Ranier | - | 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
4 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Little American Mine | 2.1 miles | 1975 |
 | Gold Mine Sites | 3.6 miles | 1977 |
 | Finstad's Auto Marine Shop | 6.5 miles | 1983 |
| Ranier Community Building | 6.5 miles | 2018 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 00000570 in Record Group 79. |
| Koochiching County | All 10 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.