Itasca State Park

Built in 1891 (rustic architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.

From the record

“Itasca State Park is a state park of Minnesota, United States, and contains the headwaters of the Mississippi River. The park spans 32,690 acres (132.3 km2) of northern Minnesota, and is located about 21 miles (34 km) north of Park Rapids, Minnesota and 25 miles (40 km) from Bagley, Minnesota.”
Wikipedia article Itasca State Park, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 2 National Register listings published here for Clearwater County · listed in 1973 · category: District · built in 1891, rustic architecture.

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

The listing

Address. 21 mi. N of Park Rapids off U.S. 71, Park Rapids, 56470
When was it listed? May 1973
Category. district
Also known as. Minnesota State Park CCC/WPA/Rustic Style MPS
Unorganized territory. South Clearwater
When was it built? 1891
Architectural style. rustic architecture
National Register reference number. 73000972 - 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

13 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Itasca State Park between 1992 and 2012, burning about 30 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 2 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
Natural	3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Debris and open burning	3
Arson/incendiarism	2
Smoking	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
10 September 2012	Smoking	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
30 July 2007	Natural	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
29 July 2006	Natural	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
9 May 1992	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
4 May 1996	Recreation and ceremony	3.5 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
28 May 2008	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
22 May 1996	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
20 May 1992	Natural	1.0 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Clearwater 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 73000972 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Clearwater County	All 2 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.