Cascade River Wayside

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.

From the record

One of 13 National Register listings published here for Cook County · listed in 2003 · category: Site.

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

The listing

Address. 3481 MN 61, Cascade River State Park, 55604
When was it listed? August 2003
Category. site
Unorganized territory. West Cook
Architectural style. National Park Service rustic
Architect. Arthur R. Nichols
National Register reference number. 03000733 - 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

15 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Cascade River Wayside between 1994 and 2018, burning about 12 acres in total. 3 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
Natural	3
Recreation and ceremony	3
Debris and open burning	3
Arson/incendiarism	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Fireworks	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
22 September 2017	Natural	under an acre	Superior National Forest	CASCADE BLUFF
30 August 2018	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Superior National Forest	BENEDICK
3 August 2002	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Superior National Forest	PILE #1
22 August 1994	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Superior National Forest	not named
13 August 1994	Natural	under an acre	Superior National Forest	not named
10 August 2001	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Superior National Forest	PIKE LAKE PIT
6 July 1998	Fireworks	under an acre	Superior National Forest	BEAVERHOUSE
19 July 2001	Natural	under an acre	Superior National Forest	DEER YARD LAKE

Every fire recorded in Cook 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 03000733 in Record Group 79.
Cook County	All 13 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.