Stillwater Overlook

Built in 1939 (National Park Service rustic). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.

From the record

“The Stillwater Overlook is a scenic overlook in Oak Park Heights, Minnesota, United States, just south of the city limits of Stillwater, near the junction of Minnesota State Highway 36 and Minnesota State Highway 95. The overlook was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007 for having state-level significance in politics/government and landscape architecture.”
Wikipedia article Stillwater Overlook, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 42 National Register listings published here for Washington County · listed in 2007 · category: Site · built in 1939, 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

Address. Lookout Trail near 63rd St. N., Oak Park Heights, 55082
When was it listed? December 2007
Category. site
City. Oak Park Heights city
When was it built? 1939
Architectural style. National Park Service rustic
Architect. Arthur R. Nichols
National Register reference number. 07001318 - 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

6 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Stillwater Overlook between 2000 and 2020, burning about 28 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Debris and open burning	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
Recreation and ceremony	1
Arson/incendiarism	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
18 September 2000	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Saint Croix National Scenic River	HECKOFADAY
8 May 2017	Recreation and ceremony	6.5 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
4 May 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	46
19 April 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	17 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
9 October 2020	Misuse of fire by a minor	1.0 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	20337
13 October 2000	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Washington County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 22 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 22 workings within 5 miles of Stillwater Overlook: 11 occurrences, 6 producers, 5 past producers. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Bryan Smith Quarry and Mill	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Moelter Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Moelter Quarry and Mill	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Houlton Gravel Deposit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence
Houlton Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
North Hudson Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
North Hudson Sand Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Pete Miller Pit No 2	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Pete Miller Pit and Mill No 1	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Pete Miller's Highway 94 Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Washington County

Storms near this property

5 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Oak Park Heights, the town this property stands in, in 5 storm reports between 2008 and 2022: 4 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
July 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Oak Park Heights	-	Trees and power lines downed in Oak Park Heights.
May 2022	Hail	Oak Park Heights	-	no account filed
May 2015	Hail	Oak Park Heights	-	no account filed
June 2012	Hail	Oak Park Heights	-	no account filed
June 2012	Hail	Oak Park Heights	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Washington 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

6 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
Moritz Bergstein Shoddy Mill and Warehouse	0.3 miles	2008
Log Cabin	0.5 miles	2007
Nelson School	0.6 miles	1979
Albert Lammers House	0.6 miles	1982
Washington County Courthouse	0.8 miles	1971
Mortimer Webster House	1.0 miles	1982

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 07001318 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Washington County	All 42 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.