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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
Williams Township School
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.
- Address. 740 Cty Rd 89, Clementson, 56623
- When was it listed? May 2018
- Category. building
- Unorganized territory. Northwest Koochiching
- National Register reference number. 100002503 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
41 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 41 fires within 5 miles of Williams Township School between 1995 and 2020, burning about 313 acres in total. None started naturally. 6 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 | 28 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 6 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 September 2006 | Debris and open burning | 152 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | CLEMENTSON FIRE |
| 20 September 1998 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 12 September 1995 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 3 August 2011 | Debris and open burning | 1.3 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 29 August 2010 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 24 August 2011 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 24 August 2011 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 17 August 2006 | Debris and open burning | 1.5 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
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 100002503 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.