White Bear Lake Armory

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2019.

From the record

One of 134 National Register listings published here for Ramsey County · listed in 2019 · category: Building.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 2228 4th St., White Bear Lake, 55110
When was it listed? March 2019
Category. building
City. White Bear Lake city
National Register reference number. 100003532 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

14 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of White Bear Lake Armory between 2000 and 2019, burning about 122 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 2 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	3
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Arson/incendiarism	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Recreation and ceremony	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Natural	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
7 May 2009	Equipment and vehicle use	12 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	RED ARROW
3 May 2005	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
29 May 2009	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
28 May 2018	Natural	4.0 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
17 May 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	35 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
15 May 2019	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
6 April 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
6 April 2000	Arson/incendiarism	25 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Ramsey County

Storms near this property

28 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names White Bear Lake, the town this property stands in, in 28 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 14 hail, 11 thunderstorm wind, 2 lightning, 1 flash flood. The reports record 1 death. 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 1998	Lightning	White Bear Lake	1 killed	One man died because of lightning strike while under a tree.
July 2011	Flash Flood	White Bear Lake	$500,000	Several main highways, and secondary roads had significant flooding, with up to four feet of standing water in northern Ramsey County.
July 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	White Bear Lake	-	Two trees down on the north side of White Bear Lake.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	White Bear Lake	-	Multiple trees and branches down on the southern side of White Bear Lake. Time estimated from radar.
August 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	White Bear Lake	-	A boat was damaged on a boat lift. A few large trees were snapped off above the ground.
September 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	White Bear Lake	-	Several reports of multiple trees blown down in the White Bear Lake area.
July 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	White Bear Lake	-	Several large tree branches were blown down north of White Bear Lake.
May 2011	Hail	White Bear Lake	-	Hail fell just east of Goose Lake.
July 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	White Bear Lake	-	A trained spotter reported several large tree limbs blown down in White Bear Lake.
July 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	White Bear Lake	-	Several 6-12 inch diameter trees were blown down along Highway 61 in White Bear Lake, Minnesota.
May 2008	Hail	White Bear Lake	-	At Highway 61 and Otter Lake Rd.
August 2007	Hail	White Bear Lake	-	Near Highway 96.
June 2005	Hail	White Bear Lake	-	Quarter sized hail fell near Highway 96 and Otter Lake Road.
July 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	White Bear Lake	-	Several large trees over 1 foot in diameter were downed.
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	White Bear Lake	-	A tree was downed onto power and telephone lines near the intersection of Stewart Avenue and Fourth Street.
August 2005	Lightning	White Bear Lake	-	Lightning struck a home and a nearby tree on Whitaker Street. The bolt that struck the home damaged electrical equipment inside. The bolt that struck the tree caused the tree to split in two, and one of the pieces fell through a window.
September 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	White Bear Lake	-	Numerous large branches down.
June 2001	Hail	White Bear Lake	-	Hail occurred in the city of Shoreview.
July 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	White Bear Lake	-	Numerous large trees down. Major roof damage to residence due to falling tree. Windows broken in several homes. Large signs down at Belair and County Road E.
May 2022	Hail	White Bear Lake	-	no account filed
July 2019	Hail	White Bear Lake	-	no account filed
July 2019	Hail	White Bear Lake	-	no account filed
August 2007	Hail	White Bear Lake	-	no account filed
August 2007	Hail	White Bear Lake	-	no account filed
August 2007	Hail	White Bear Lake	-	no account filed
July 2000	Hail	White Bear Lake	-	no account filed
June 1999	Hail	White Bear Lake	-	no account filed
September 1999	Hail	White Bear Lake	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Ramsey 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
First National Bank of White Bear	0.1 miles	1983
Charles P. Noyes Cottage	0.2 miles	1976
Cyrus B. Cobb House	0.2 miles	1983
E. H. Hobe House-Solheim	2.5 miles	1983
Hill's James, J., North Oaks Farm, Dairy Building	5.0 miles	1997
Hill's, James J., North Oaks Farm, Dairy Building, Granary Root Cellar and Auxiliary Buildings, Boundary Increase	5.1 miles	1999

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100003532 in Record Group 79.
Ramsey County	All 134 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.
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.