Craigie Flour Mill Historical Marker

Built in 1940 (National Park Service rustic). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.

From the record

“The Craigie Flour Mill Historical Marker is a wayside rest on Minnesota State Highway 78 in Otter Tail County, Minnesota. The site was designed by landscape architect Arthur R.”
Wikipedia article Craigie Flour Mill Historical Marker, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 27 National Register listings published here for Otter Tail County · listed in 2003 · category: Site · built in 1940, National Park Service rustic, by Arthur R. Nichols.

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 site, 1 object as contributing to the listing.
Address. MN 78 at Balmoral Cr., Otter Tail Township, 56515
When was it listed? January 2003
Category. site
Also known as. Federal Relief Construction in Minnesota MPS AD; Federal Relief Construction in Minnesota, 1933-1943 MPS; Federal Relief Construction in Minnesota MPS AD; Federal Relief Construction in Minnesota, 1933-1943 MPS
Township. Otter Tail township
When was it built? 1940
Architectural style. National Park Service rustic
Architect. Arthur R. Nichols
National Register reference number. 02001704 - 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

7 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Craigie Flour Mill Historical Marker between 1992 and 2015, burning about 528 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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
Debris and open burning	5
Arson/incendiarism	2

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
5 May 1997	Debris and open burning	35 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
4 April 1992	Debris and open burning	78 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
28 April 2003	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
2 April 1992	Debris and open burning	360 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
12 April 2015	Debris and open burning	3.8 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
11 April 1994	Arson/incendiarism	50 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
30 March 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Otter Tail 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

2 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.

Photograph	Property	Distance	Listed
	Prospect House	6.7 miles	2013
	First Baptist Church	7.1 miles	2025

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 02001704 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Otter Tail County	All 27 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.