Stuntz Bay Boathouse Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.

From the record

“The Stuntz Bay Boathouse Historic District comprises a row of 143 boathouses on Lake Vermilion in Breitung Township, Minnesota, United States. They were mostly built in the first half of the 20th century by employees of the adjacent Soudan Iron Mine.”
Wikipedia article Stuntz Bay Boathouse Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 126 National Register listings published here for St. Louis County · listed in 2007 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. At the northern of Stuntz Bay Rd., Breitung Township, 55782
When was it listed? May 2007
Category. district
Township. Breitung township
National Register reference number. 07000460 - 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

73 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 73 fires within 5 miles of Stuntz Bay Boathouse Historic District between 1992 and 2020, burning about 24 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 11 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	22
Recreation and ceremony	20
Arson/incendiarism	11
Natural	7
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Power generation/transmission/distribution	4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Smoking	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 2006	Natural	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
6 September 1998	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
5 September 2007	Natural	under an acre	Superior National Forest	RICE BAY
19 September 2016	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
15 September 2006	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
9 August 2007	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
30 August 2003	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
3 August 2004	Smoking	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in St. Louis County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Stuntz Bay Boathouse Historic District: 2 past producers, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Gold. 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	Recorded
North American Mine	Gold	Unknown	Gold
Armstrong Bay Mine	Iron	Past Producer	1923
Soudan Iron Mine	Iron	Past Producer	Hematite, Magnetite

Every working recorded in St. Louis 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

3 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
Soudan Iron Mine	0.3 miles	1966
Tower Fire Hall	2.4 miles	1980
Duluth and Iron Range Railroad Company Passenger Station	2.5 miles	2013

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 07000460 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
St. Louis County	All 126 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.