BlockFrom the record
One of 3 National Register listings published here for Lake of the Woods County · listed in 1973 · category: Site.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Northwest Point
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.
The listing
- Address. Between Bear and Harrison Creeks, Angle Inlet, 56711
- When was it listed? February 1973
- Category. site
- Township. Angle township
- National Register reference number. 73000982 - 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
1 since 2012Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Northwest Point in 2012, burning under an acre in total. None 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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 September 2012 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Storms near this property
11 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Angle Inlet, the town this property stands in, in 11 storm reports between 1999 and 2006: 7 hail, 3 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Angle Inlet | $2,000 | Trees were downed along county road 49. |
| July 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Angle Inlet | $500 | Several trees were downed. |
| June 2006 | Hail | Angle Inlet | - | The hail covered the ground. |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Angle Inlet | - | Around 68 trees were uprooted at Angle Outpost Resort. Three 700-pound piers were pulled out of the dock area and three boats were tossed on shore. The strong winds blew for about 15 minutes. Over one thousand trees were blown down from French Narrows and Fort Charles down into the Northwest Angle. Windows were blown out of several cabins in the area. |
| June 2005 | Hail | Angle Inlet | - | Nickle to quarter-sized hail was reported. |
| June 2005 | Tornado (F1) | Angle Inlet | - | The tornado tracked from the east end of the Northwest Angle, out onto the Lake of the Woods to about 3 miles south of Oak Island. The tornado-waterspout was seen from the shore of Little Oak Island. Numerous trees were uprooted or snapped off on the Northwest Angle. Estimated peak winds were 100 mph. |
| June 2006 | Hail | Angle Inlet | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Angle Inlet | - | no account filed |
| July 2005 | Hail | Angle Inlet | - | no account filed |
| September 2003 | Hail | Angle Inlet | - | no account filed |
| August 1999 | Hail | Angle Inlet | - | no account filed |
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 73000982 in Record Group 79. |
| Lake of the Woods County | All 3 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.