Chik Wauk Lodge

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.

From the record

One of 13 National Register listings published here for Cook County · listed in 2007 · category: Building.

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

The listing

Address. 28 Moose Pond Rd., Grand Marais, 55604
When was it listed? June 2007
Category. building
Unorganized territory. West Cook
National Register reference number. 07000599 - 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

36 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 36 fires within 5 miles of Chik Wauk Lodge between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,360 acres in total. 10 started naturally. None was 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
Natural	10
Power generation/transmission/distribution	7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Debris and open burning	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 2001	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Superior National Forest	SEAGULL CREEK FIRE
3 September 2006	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Superior National Forest	SAG CABIN
22 September 2016	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Superior National Forest	MUNKER ISLAND
15 September 1997	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Superior National Forest	EAGLE NEST ISLAND
12 September 2011	Power generation/transmission/distribution	5.0 acres	Superior National Forest	SEAGULL ROAD
11 September 2006	Natural	4.0 acres	Superior National Forest	PATRIOT
6 August 2005	Natural	1,335 acres	Superior National Forest	ALPINE LAKE
3 August 2015	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Superior National Forest	LARCH

Every fire recorded in Cook County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Chik Wauk Lodge: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold. 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
	Lake Saganaga-Gold Island Prospect	Gold	Unknown	Gold

Every working recorded in Cook County

Storms near this property

11 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Grand Marais, the town this property stands in, in 11 storm reports between 1996 and 2006: 6 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 2 lightning. The reports record 1 death and 1 injury. 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
August 1996	Lightning	Grand Marais	1 killed, 1 hurt	no account filed
May 2006	Hail	Grand Marais	-	The hail fell at Sea Gull Lake.
April 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Grand Marais	-	Numerous trees were blown down three miles north of the Gunflint Lodge.
June 2004	Lightning	Grand Marais	-	A lightning strike caused a cabin to catch fire.
July 2003	Hail	Grand Marais	-	The hail fell at Sea Gull Lake.
July 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Grand Marais	-	Numerous trees and power lines were blown down. The wind speed is estimated.
August 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Grand Marais	-	no account filed
May 1998	Hail	Grand Marais	-	no account filed
June 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Grand Marais	-	no account filed
June 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Grand Marais	-	no account filed
August 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Grand Marais	-	no account filed

Every storm 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 07000599 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
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.
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.