Savanna Portage

Built in 1961. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.

From the record

“Savanna Portage State Park is a state park in the U.S. State of Minnesota established in 1961 to preserve the historic Savanna Portage, a difficult 6-mile (9.7 km) trail connecting the watersheds of the Mississippi River and Lake Superior.”
Wikipedia article Savanna Portage State Park, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 10 National Register listings published here for Aitkin County · listed in 1973 · category: Site · built in 1961.

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

The listing

Address. Off Co. Hwy. 5 in Savanna Portage State Park, McGregor, 55787
When was it listed? April 1973
Category. site
Township. Balsam township
When was it built? 1961
National Register reference number. 73000963 - 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

6 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Savanna Portage between 1993 and 2012, burning about 70 acres in total. 2 started naturally. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Natural	2
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Recreation and ceremony	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
20 May 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.5 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
13 May 1993	Natural	37 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
12 May 2012	Natural	29 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
29 April 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
27 April 2003	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
25 April 1995	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Mille Lacs Tribe	ML1

Every fire recorded in Aitkin County

Storms near this property

1 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names McGregor, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 1994: 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
June 1994	Tornado (F0)	McGregor	-	A small tornado touched down near McGregor downing trees.

Every storm recorded in Aitkin 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 73000963 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Aitkin County	All 10 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.