BlockFrom the record
One of 15 National Register listings published here for Carlton County · listed in 1973 · category: Site.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Grand Portage of the St. Louis River
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.
The listing
- Address. W of Duluth in Jay Cooke State Park off MN 210, Duluth, 55733
- When was it listed? May 1973
- Category. site
- Township. Thomson township
- National Register reference number. 73000966 - 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
284 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 284 fires within 5 miles of Grand Portage of the St. Louis River between 1992 and 2020, burning about 269 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 24 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 |
|---|---|
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 89 |
| Debris and open burning | 80 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 31 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 27 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 24 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 12 |
| Smoking | 10 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 5 |
| Fireworks | 2 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Other causes | 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 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 24 September 1998 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 15 September 2006 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 1 September 2005 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 8 August 2005 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 7 August 2016 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 6 August 2004 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 6 August 2004 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Mines and quarries near this property
6 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Grand Portage of the St. Louis River: 5 producers, 1 occurrence. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Carlton County Clay Deposit | Clay | Occurrence | ||
| Zenith Dredge Co Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Koski Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Scanlon Pit and Shop | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Thompson Twp Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Tompson Township Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
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 milesOther 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.
| Photograph | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jay Cooke State Park CCC/WPA/Rustic Style Service Yard | 1.5 miles | 1992 | |
 | Jay Cooke State Park CCC/WPA/Rustic Style Picnic Grounds | 1.9 miles | 1992 |
 | Jay Cooke State Park CCC/Rustic Style Historic District | 2.7 miles | 1992 |
 | Henry C. Oldenburg House | 4.6 miles | 2006 |
 | Carlton County Courthouse | 4.9 miles | 1985 |
| Cloquet High School | 7.2 miles | 2021 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 73000966 in Record Group 79. |
| Carlton County | All 15 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.