District No. 3 School

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2023.

From the record

One of 22 National Register listings published here for Clay County · listed in 2023 · 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. 10389 280th St. South, Parke Township, 56549
When was it listed? January 2023
Category. building
Township. Parke township
National Register reference number. 100008545 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

10 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of District No. 3 School between 1994 and 2018, burning about 433 acres in total. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Arson/incendiarism	2
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Smoking	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
16 July 2014	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
4 May 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	18 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
24 May 2014	Arson/incendiarism	9.5 acres	Detroit Lakes Wetland Management District	LAGE
22 May 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Detroit Lakes Wetland Management District	ROLLOG SOUTH
16 May 2008	Smoking	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
4 April 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	12 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
30 April 1996	Debris and open burning	15 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
13 April 2015	Debris and open burning	315 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Clay County

Mines and quarries near this property

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of District No. 3 School: 7 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Bergan Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Clay County Pit No 1	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Hoyum S & G Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Most Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Nelson Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Nelson Pit No 2	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Thompson Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Clay 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

1 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.

Photograph	Property	Distance	Listed
	Grong Lutheran Church	1.0 miles	2026

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100008545 in Record Group 79.
Clay County	All 22 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.