Bigfork Village Hall

Built in 1936. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012.

From the record

“Bigfork Village Hall is a historic fieldstone municipal hall built in 1936 with Works Progress Administration funds to provide a government and community center in Bigfork, Minnesota, United States. It remains at its original location on Minnesota State Highway 38 and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.”
Wikipedia article Bigfork Village Hall, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 19 National Register listings published here for Itasca County · listed in 2012 · category: Building · built in 1936.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · 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. 200 Main Ave., Bigfork, 56628
When was it listed? October 2012
Category. building
Also known as. Federal Relief Construction in Minnesota, 1933-1943 MPS; Federal Relief Construction in Minnesota, 1933-1943 MPS
City. Bigfork city
When was it built? 1936
National Register reference number. 12000871 - 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

31 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 31 fires within 5 miles of Bigfork Village Hall between 1993 and 2020, burning about 38 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 was 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	13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Power generation/transmission/distribution	5
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Recreation and ceremony	1
Arson/incendiarism	1
Natural	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 1998	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.5 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
31 August 1997	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
18 August 2007	Natural	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
31 July 2004	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
1 July 2010	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
7 May 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
5 May 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
4 May 1999	Power generation/transmission/distribution	1.0 acres	Chippewa National Forest	BIG FORK POWERLINE

Every fire recorded in Itasca County

Storms near this property

16 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bigfork, the town this property stands in, in 16 storm reports between 1997 and 2022: 8 hail, 7 thunderstorm wind, 1 heavy rain. The reports record 1 injury. 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
July 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Bigfork	1 hurt	no account filed
July 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Bigfork	-	A home was damaged when a large uprooted spruce tree fell on it.
August 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Bigfork	-	A large tree was blown onto a house. The house received minor damages.
June 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Bigfork	-	Numerous foot-diameter trees were blown down.
June 2011	Hail	Bigfork	-	A wind gust of 30 knots was also measured.
June 2011	Heavy Rain	Bigfork	-	Five and a quarter inches of rain fell since the previous night.
July 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Bigfork	-	Several trees were blown down. Wind speed is estimated.
August 2022	Hail	Bigfork	-	no account filed
June 2018	Hail	Bigfork	-	no account filed
July 2003	Hail	Bigfork	-	no account filed
July 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Bigfork	-	no account filed
July 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Bigfork	-	no account filed
July 1999	Hail	Bigfork	-	no account filed
June 1999	Hail	Bigfork	-	no account filed
May 1998	Hail	Bigfork	-	no account filed
June 1997	Hail	Bigfork	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Itasca 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

2 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
	Scenic State Park CCC/WPA/Rustic Style Historic Resources	4.3 miles	1992
	Scenic State Park CCC/Rustic Style Service Yard	5.2 miles	1992

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 12000871 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Itasca County	All 19 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.