Built in 1923 (American Craftsman). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.
From the record
“Canadian National Railways Depot or Baudette Depot in Baudette, Minnesota, is a preserved historic railway depot built by the Canadian National Railway in 1923 which reflects the region's transportation past and serves as a museum. The museum features displays on the history of train travel and of the depot.”
Wikipedia article Baudette Depot, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 3 National Register listings published here for Lake of the Woods County · listed in 2005 · category: Building · built in 1923, American Craftsman.
National Register reference number.05000809- 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
91 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 91 fires within 5 miles of Canadian National Railways Depot
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 567 acres in total. None started naturally. 33 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
41
Arson/incendiarism
33
Railroad operations and maintenance
6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
3
Equipment and vehicle use
2
Recreation and ceremony
2
Smoking
2
Power generation/transmission/distribution
2
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
1 working within 5 miles of Canadian National Railways Depot: 1 occurrence.
None of them still produces. What was taken out: Peat. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Baudette, the town this property stands in, in 37 storm reports between 1995 and 2006: 16 hail, 14 thunderstorm wind, 6 flash flood, 1 tornado.
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.
A tin roof was blown off a carport on the eastern side of Baudette. Minor shingle and tree damage also occurred along a two block path. Wind speeds were estimated to be around 60 mph.
The Baudette ASOS reported a 59 mph wind gust. Many trees were blown down. A storage center sustained major damage when all its sheet metal was torn off and blown across the nearby highway. The flying debris snapped power poles along the highway.
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.
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.
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