Grand Portage National Monument

Built in 1960. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1966.

From the record

One of 13 National Register listings published here for Cook County · listed in 1966 · category: District · built in 1960.

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

The listing

Address. Off US 61, within Grand Portage Indian Reservation, Grand Portage, 55605
When was it listed? October 1966
Category. district
Unorganized territory. Grand Portage
When was it built? 1960
National Register reference number. 66000111 - 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

47 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 47 fires within 5 miles of Grand Portage National Monument between 1992 and 2020, burning about 30 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 5 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	11
Recreation and ceremony	8
Smoking	7
Arson/incendiarism	5
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Other causes	2
Fireworks	2
Natural	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
3 September 1997	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Grand Portage Tribe	ICEHOUSE
23 September 2003	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Grand Portage Tribe	BREAKFAST
5 August 2010	Misuse of fire by a minor	1.0 acres	Grand Portage Tribe	RED PINE
4 August 2020	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Grand Portage National Monument	PORTAGE
23 August 2000	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Grand Portage Tribe	THORSON 01
2 August 2017	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Grand Portage Tribe	BOGS
10 August 2020	Other causes	1.0 acres	Grand Portage Tribe	68 TOWNSITE
5 July 2009	Fireworks	1.0 acres	Grand Portage Tribe	MINNOW

Every fire recorded in Cook County

Mines and quarries near this property

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Grand Portage National Monument: 3 occurrences, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Graphite, Copper, Copper, Nickel, Platinum. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Green Prospect Pit	Copper	Occurrence	Pentlandite, Pyrrhotite, Chalcopyrite
Pigeon River	Copper, Nickel, Platinum	Occurrence
Graphite Pit No 2	Graphite	Occurrence
Graphite Pit No. 2	Graphite	Unknown	Graphite

Every working recorded in Cook County

Storms near this property

1 since 2020

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Grand Portage, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 2020: 1 hail. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
July 2020	Hail	Grand Portage	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Cook 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 66000111 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Cook County	All 13 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.
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.