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One of 31 National Register listings published here for Crow Wing County · listed in 2017 · category: Structure · built in 1934.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Pequot Fire Lookout Tower
Built in 1934. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2017.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 site, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
- Still standing. The Park Service records this property as extant.
- Address. Cty. Rd. 11 about 0.5 mi. E. of Cty. Rd. 112, Pequot Lakes, 56472
- When was it listed? July 2017
- Category. structure
- Also known as. Federal Relief Construction in Minnesota, 1933-1943 MPS; Federal Relief Construction in Minnesota, 1933-1943 MPS
- City. Pequot Lakes city
- When was it built? 1934
- National Register reference number. 100001297 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
211 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 211 fires within 5 miles of Pequot Fire Lookout Tower between 1992 and 2020, burning about 336 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 18 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 | 105 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 46 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 23 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 18 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 9 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 5 |
| Smoking | 4 |
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 6 September 2001 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 5 September 2003 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 25 September 1998 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 14 September 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 1 September 1996 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 7 August 2008 | Recreation and ceremony | 7.5 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 4 August 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Mines and quarries near this property
5 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Pequot Fire Lookout Tower: 5 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Crow Wing County Marl Beds No 10 | Limestone, General | Occurrence | ||
| Crow Wing County Marl Beds No 11 | Limestone, General | Occurrence | ||
| Crow Wing County Marl Beds No 12 | Limestone, General | Occurrence | ||
| Crow Wing County Marl Beds No 2 | Limestone, General | Occurrence | ||
| Crow Wing County Marl Beds No 4 | Limestone, General | Occurrence |
Storms near this property
18 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pequot Lakes, the town this property stands in, in 18 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 9 thunderstorm wind, 8 hail, 1 flash flood. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2025 | Hail | Pequot Lakes | - | Numerous hailstones between three quarters of an inch to 1.1 inches were observed. |
| May 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pequot Lakes | - | Trees were blown down. |
| July 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pequot Lakes | - | Twelve inch diameter trees were blown down. |
| July 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pequot Lakes | - | Numerous trees were blown down. |
| July 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pequot Lakes | - | Several trees were blown down in Brainerd and Pequot Lakes. |
| April 2025 | Hail | Pequot Lakes | - | no account filed |
| April 2025 | Hail | Pequot Lakes | - | no account filed |
| April 2025 | Hail | Pequot Lakes | - | no account filed |
| April 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pequot Lakes | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Hail | Pequot Lakes | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Hail | Pequot Lakes | - | no account filed |
| July 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pequot Lakes | - | no account filed |
| July 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pequot Lakes | - | no account filed |
| October 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pequot Lakes | - | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pequot Lakes | - | no account filed |
| July 1996 | Flash Flood | Pequot Lakes | - | no account filed |
| July 1996 | Hail | Pequot Lakes | - | no account filed |
| August 1995 | Hail | Pequot Lakes | - | no account filed |
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 milesOther 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.
| Photograph | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
 | A.L. Cole Memorial Building | 0.8 miles | 2004 |
 | H. H. Broach House | 1.4 miles | 1980 |
 | Wilford H. Fawcett House | 4.4 miles | 1980 |
| Minnewawa Lodge | 6.7 miles | 1980 | |
 | Minnesota and International Railroad Freight House and Shelter Shed | 7.3 miles | 1980 |
 | Grand View Lodge | 7.7 miles | 1980 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100001297 in Record Group 79. |
| Crow Wing County | All 31 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.