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Photograph of Crow Wing State Park
Photograph by McGhiever, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Crow Wing State Park

Built in 1959. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970.

From the record

“Crow Wing State Park is a state park of Minnesota, United States, at the confluence of the Mississippi and Crow Wing Rivers. The park interprets the site of Old Crow Wing, one of the most populous towns in Minnesota in the 1850s and 1860s.”

Wikipedia article Crow Wing State Park, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 13 National Register listings published here for Cass County · listed in 1970 · category: Site · built in 1959.

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

The listing

  • Address. Off MN 371, Pillager, 56473
  • When was it listed? July 1970
  • Category. site
  • Township. Sylvan township
  • When was it built? 1959
  • National Register reference number. 70000288 - 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

176 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 176 fires within 5 miles of Crow Wing State Park between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,796 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 29 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 burning80
Arson/incendiarism29
Missing data/not specified/undetermined25
Equipment and vehicle use19
Recreation and ceremony9
Smoking5
Natural2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Fireworks1
Other causes1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
8 September 2003Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 September 2003Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 September 2003Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 September 2004Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 September 2004Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 September 2004Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 September 2004Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Every fire recorded in Cass County

Mines and quarries near this property

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Crow Wing State Park: 3 past producers, 3 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Manganese. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Willcuts Reserve H-47Iron, ManganeseProspect
Willcuts Reserve H-47Iron, ManganesePast ProducerHematite, Magnetite
Barrows Reserve H-1IronPast ProducerHematite, Magnetite
Hanna Iron Ore DivnIronProspect
N W I Reserve X-51IronProspect
N.W.I. Reserve X-51IronPast ProducerHematite, Magnetite

Every working recorded in Cass County

Storms near this property

42 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pillager, the town this property stands in, in 42 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 26 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2010Thunderstorm WindPillager$8,000Many trees were blown down, and power outages occurred. Some shingles were blown off a roof.
June 2025Tornado (EF1)Pillager-First of two tornadoes from a severe thunderstorm that crossed through Cass and Crow Wing Counties. The tornado began just north of Casino, Minnesota, and moved northeasterly for about 3.75 miles before taking an easterly turn near the end of Home Brook Lane on the south end of Hardy Lake. It then traveled east-southeast for about 7 miles and crossed into Crow Wing County while over Gull Lake. The tornado continued into Crow Wing County for about three-quarters of a mile moving back on shore then dissipating after crossing Sea Gull Road NW at 1643 CDT. Damage along the path was mainly limited to hardwood and softwood trees that were snapped about 10 to 20 feet up (DI 27/28, DOD 4). Near the beginning of the tornado, it moved across a homestead causing roof damage to the attached garage of a home and pushed the entire unanchored garage structure about one foot (DI 1, DOD 4).
July 2023HailPillager-Some damage to vehicles was observed.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindPillager-A few trees were down across Minnesota Highway 210.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindPillager-There were 3 to 4-inch diameter tree branches down from a living oak tree.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindPillager-Large trees fell and hit the powerlines. The trees had an estimated diameter of 18 inches.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindPillager-There were trees down, including one big oak, and a TV antenna and tower were blow down.
August 2015Thunderstorm WindPillager-The county sheriff reported a tree down.
September 2014Thunderstorm WindPillager-A 16 inch diameter tree snapped.
September 2014Thunderstorm WindPillager-A pole barn was destroyed.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindPillager-Power lines were blown down.
July 2009HailPillager-Some small branches were blown down by gusty winds, in addition to the hail that fell.
July 2008HailPillager-Hail fell for on-half hour.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindPillager-Two 18-inch diameter trees were blown down by the strong thunderstorm winds.
August 2007HailPillager-Wind gusts to 50 knots were also recorded.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindPillager-Mnay 30-foot tall trees were blown down by the strong thunderstorm winds.
August 2007HailPillager-There was also wind damage with at least ten 18-inch diameter trees blown down.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindPillager-Two large trees and several small trees were blown down.
June 2001Thunderstorm WindPillager-Twelve-inch diameter pine trees were blown down, and a couple of sheds were destroyed. The wind speed is estimated.
September 2025HailPillager-no account filed
July 2023HailPillager-no account filed
July 2023HailPillager-no account filed
July 2023HailPillager-no account filed
May 2022HailPillager-no account filed
May 2022HailPillager-no account filed
May 2022HailPillager-no account filed
May 2022HailPillager-no account filed
June 2022HailPillager-no account filed
July 2020HailPillager-no account filed
July 2020HailPillager-no account filed
July 2020HailPillager-no account filed
July 2020HailPillager-no account filed
May 2014HailPillager-no account filed
August 2012HailPillager-no account filed
July 2012HailPillager-no account filed
July 2009HailPillager-no account filed
June 2009HailPillager-no account filed
August 2007HailPillager-no account filed
July 2001Thunderstorm WindPillager-no account filed
July 1999Thunderstorm WindPillager-no account filed
September 1998HailPillager-no account filed
July 1996HailPillager-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Cass 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 recordThe nomination case file for reference 70000288 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Cass CountyAll 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.