I.W. Stevens Lakeside Cottage

Built in 1932. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011.

From the record

One of 126 National Register listings published here for St. Louis County · listed in 2011 · category: Building · built in 1932.

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

The listing

Listed as. Stevens, I.W., Lakeside Cottage - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. Williams Island, Namakan Lake, 55725
When was it listed? June 2011
Category. building
Also known as. Tourism and Recreational Properties in Voyageurs National Park 1880-1950 MPS
Unorganized territory. Northwest St. Louis
When was it built? 1932
National Register reference number. 11000363 - 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

33 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 33 fires within 5 miles of I.W. Stevens Lakeside Cottage between 1992 and 2020, burning about 16 acres in total. 7 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	20
Natural	7
Debris and open burning	2
Arson/incendiarism	2
Other causes	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
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
25 August 1998	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Voyageurs National Park	MOUSE TRAP
20 August 2008	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Voyageurs National Park	LEAN 2 WF

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
Monson's Hoist Bay Resort	1.7 miles	2011
Adolph Levin Cottage	5.1 miles	2011
Kettle Falls Historic District	6.3 miles	1978
Kettle Falls Hotel	6.4 miles	1976

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 11000363 in Record Group 79.
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.