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One of 10 National Register listings published here for Koochiching County · listed in 2018 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Ranier Community Building
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2018.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Still standing. The Park Service records this property as extant.
- Address. 2099 Spruce St., Ranier, 56668
- When was it listed? May 2018
- Category. building
- Also known as. Federal Relief Construction in Minnesota, 1933-1943 MPS (AD); Federal Relief Construction in Minnesota, 1933-1943 MPS
- Unorganized territory. Rainy Lake
- National Register reference number. 100002502 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
48 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 48 fires within 5 miles of Ranier Community Building between 1992 and 2019, burning about 96 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 5 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 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 5 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 5 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 4 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Natural | 2 |
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 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 18 September 2012 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 1 September 2006 | Recreation and ceremony | 2.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 9 August 1992 | Natural | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 6 August 2002 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 5 August 1997 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.1 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 24 August 2008 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 20 August 2008 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Mines and quarries near this property
9 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Ranier Community Building: 9 producers. All of them 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.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ranier Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Boise Cascade Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| County Pit No 1 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| International Falls Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Kolinski Pit and Mill | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Oveson Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Peterson Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Ranier Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Ranier Pit and Mill | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this property
9 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ranier, the town this property stands in, in 9 storm reports between 1995 and 2022: 8 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2007 | Hail | Ranier | - | Quarter-sized hail. |
| April 2005 | Hail | Ranier | - | The hail fell for 10 minutes. |
| August 1995 | Hail | Ranier | - | Numerous reports of broken windshields and glass. Sheetmetal and fiberglass damage to light buildings. |
| May 2022 | Hail | Ranier | - | no account filed |
| May 2006 | Hail | Ranier | - | no account filed |
| April 2005 | Hail | Ranier | - | no account filed |
| May 2005 | Hail | Ranier | - | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ranier | - | no account filed |
| August 1996 | Hail | Ranier | - | 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
4 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Finstad's Auto Marine Shop | 0.2 miles | 1983 |
 | Koochiching County Courthouse | 2.9 miles | 1977 |
 | Alexander Baker School and E.W. Backus Junior High School | 3.1 miles | 2004 |
| Ernest C. Oberholtzer Rainy Lake Islands Historic District | 6.5 miles | 2000 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100002502 in Record Group 79. |
| Koochiching County | All 10 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.