Minnesota and International Railway Trestle at Blackduck
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014.
From the record
“The Minnesota and International Railway Trestle at Blackduck in Beltrami County, Minnesota was the longest timber trestle in the state. It was built in 1901 and 1902 by the Minnesota and International Railway, a subsidiary of the Northern Pacific Railroad, on a line between Koochiching and Bemidji, Minnesota, where it met a branch line of the parent railroad running north from Brainerd.”
Wikipedia article Minnesota and International Railway Trestle at Blackduck, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 11 National Register listings published here for Beltrami County · listed in 2014 · category: Structure.
National Register reference number. 13001144 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
49 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 49 fires within 5 miles of Minnesota and International Railway Trestle at Blackduck
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 64 acres in total. 2 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
Debris and open burning
25
Equipment and vehicle use
7
Arson/incendiarism
6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
4
Power generation/transmission/distribution
2
Natural
2
Recreation and ceremony
1
Fireworks
1
Smoking
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
1 working within 5 miles of Minnesota and International Railway Trestle at Blackduck: 1 producer.
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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Blackduck, the town this property stands in, in 38 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 22 hail, 15 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado.
No death or injury is recorded in these reports. 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.
A boat with four occupants aboard overturned on Blackduck Lake, due to a combination of factors. The lake was rough at the time, but weather was not the main issue. However, thunderstorm winds did hamper rescue efforts following the accident. Two of the occupants were rescued but two others drowned.
Golf ball sized hail reported at the Blackduck golf course. Damaging winds and large hail occurred across most of the Blackduck Lake area and Hines Township from 530 PM CDT to 540 PM CDT.
The tornado tracked through trees and crossed scenic highway 39 south of Blackduck. Many large trees were knocked down along the damage path. Peak wind speeds were estimated at 100 mph.
Strong thunderstorm winds blew over two small campers and lifted the roof from a building. Shingles were also blown from the roofs of a number of area homes.
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.
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.
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.
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