BlockFrom the record
One of 14 National Register listings published here for Lake County · listed in 2011 · category: District.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Halfway Ranger Station
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 11 buildingss, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
- Address. MN 1 (Fall Lake Township), Ely, 55731
- When was it listed? August 2011
- Category. district
- Township. Fall Lake township
- National Register reference number. 11000782 - 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
63 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 63 fires within 5 miles of Halfway Ranger Station between 1992 and 2020, burning about 45 acres in total. 16 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 16 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 14 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 8 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 6 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 6 |
| Debris and open burning | 6 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 6 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Superior National Forest | SOUTH FARM |
| 7 September 2011 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Superior National Forest | RIVARD ROAD |
| 5 September 2005 | Natural | under an acre | Superior National Forest | BOONEY |
| 4 September 2007 | Natural | under an acre | Superior National Forest | CROCKET LAKE |
| 24 September 1997 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Superior National Forest | BIRCH POINT |
| 24 September 1997 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Superior National Forest | BIG ROCK ISLAND |
| 9 August 2008 | Natural | under an acre | Superior National Forest | KEELEY |
| 6 August 1998 | Natural | 2.0 acres | Superior National Forest | DENLEY |
Mines and quarries near this property
4 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Halfway Ranger Station: 3 prospects, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Copper, Nickel, Palladium, Platinum, Cobalt, Titanium, Gold, Copper, Copper, Nickel, Platinum, Palladium. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Birch Lake Prospect | Copper | Unknown | ||
| Maturi Nokomis Deposit | Copper, Nickel, Palladium, Platinum, Cobalt, Titanium, Gold | Prospect | Bornite, Chalcocite, Chalcopyrite, Covellite, Cubanite, Cuprite, Digenite, Pentlandite, Pyrite, Pyrrhotite, Sphalerite, Tenorite | |
| South Filson Creek deposit | Nickel, Copper, Cobalt, Silver, Gold, Platinum, Palladium | Prospect | 1967 | |
| Spruce Road deposit | Copper, Nickel, Platinum, Palladium, Cobalt, Gold, Silver, PGE | Prospect | 1955 |
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 11000782 in Record Group 79. |
| Lake County | All 14 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.