Fort Snelling

A National Historic Landmark. Built in 1819. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1966.

From the record

“Fort Snelling is a former military fortification and National Historic Landmark in the U.S. state of Minnesota on the bluffs overlooking the confluence of the Minnesota and Mississippi Rivers. The site was initially named Fort Saint Anthony but was renamed Fort Snelling when its construction ended in 1825.”
Wikipedia article Fort Snelling, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 40 National Register listings published here for Dakota County · listed in 1966 · category: District · built in 1819 · a National Historic Landmark.

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

The listing

Address. Bounded by Minnehaha Park, the Mississippi River, the airport and Bloomington Rd., St. Paul, 55111
When was it listed? October 1966
Category. district
When was it built? 1819
National Register reference number. 66000401 - 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

42 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 42 fires within 5 miles of Fort Snelling between 1998 and 2019, burning about 1,244 acres in total. None started naturally. 7 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
Railroad operations and maintenance	8
Arson/incendiarism	7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Debris and open burning	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
24 September 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge	BOARDWALK
26 August 2011	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge	BASS PONDS 3
20 August 2008	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge	IKES
17 August 2005	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge	CLEVELAND
13 August 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge	BLUE WATER
7 July 2013	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge	CEDAR AVE 3
5 July 2011	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge	BASS PONDS 1
3 July 2006	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge	BASS 2

Every fire recorded in Dakota County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Fort Snelling: 1 occurrence, 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Kaolin. 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
Twin City Brick Co. Clay Pit	Kaolin	Producer	Kaolinite
Dakota County Clay Deposit	Clay	Occurrence
Twin City Brick Co Pit	Clay	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Dakota 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

6 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
Fort Snelling-Mendota Bridge	0.5 miles	1978
Mendota Historic District	0.9 miles	1970
Henry H. Sibley House	1.0 miles	1972
Oheyawahe-Pilot Knob	1.3 miles	2017
George W. Wentworth House	5.6 miles	1979
Caponi Art Park	6.2 miles	2025

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 66000401 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Dakota County	All 40 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.