Monson's Hoist Bay Resort

Built in 1939. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011.

From the record

“Monson's Hoist Bay Resort is a former summer resort on Namakan Lake in the U.S. state of Minnesota, in what is now Voyageurs National Park. Ted and Fern Monson established the resort in 1939 and operated it every summer until 1973, except for a three-year hiatus during World War II.”
Wikipedia article Monson's Hoist Bay Resort, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 126 National Register listings published here for St. Louis County · listed in 2011 · category: District · built in 1939.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

Address. Hoist Bay, Namakan Lake, 55725
When was it listed? June 2011
Category. district
Also known as. Tourism and Recreational Properties in Voyageurs National Park 1880-1950 MPS
Unorganized territory. Northwest St. Louis
When was it built? 1939
National Register reference number. 11000362 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Fires near this property

36 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 36 fires within 5 miles of Monson's Hoist Bay Resort between 1992 and 2020, burning about 26 acres in total. 9 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
Recreation and ceremony	21
Natural	9
Debris and open burning	2
Arson/incendiarism	2
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Other causes	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
9 September 2011	Natural	4.0 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
4 September 2002	Natural	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
4 September 2001	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Voyageurs National Park	NUN 18
5 August 2020	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Voyageurs National Park	FOX ISLAND
5 August 1998	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Voyageurs National Park	SEXTON IS
5 August 1997	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Voyageurs National Park	POINT
3 August 1997	Natural	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
27 August 1999	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Voyageurs National Park	LAMPLESS

Every fire recorded in St. Louis 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

4 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
I.W. Stevens Lakeside Cottage	1.7 miles	2011
Adolph Levin Cottage	5.1 miles	2011
Kettle Falls Historic District	7.5 miles	1978
Kettle Falls Hotel	7.6 miles	1976

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 11000362 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
St. Louis County	All 126 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.