BlockFrom the record
One of 19 National Register listings published here for Itasca County · listed in 1974 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Old Cut Foot Sioux Ranger Station
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Address. MN 46 in Chippewa National Forest, Squaw Lake, 56636
- When was it listed? August 1974
- Category. building
- Unorganized territory. Bowstring Lake
- National Register reference number. 74001026 - 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
54 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 54 fires within 5 miles of Old Cut Foot Sioux Ranger Station between 1992 and 2020, burning about 42 acres in total. None started naturally. 20 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 |
|---|---|
| Arson/incendiarism | 20 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 11 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 7 |
| Debris and open burning | 6 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 5 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 August 2018 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Chippewa National Forest | WEST BOW |
| 20 August 2007 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Chippewa National Forest | MORNING FIRE |
| 2 August 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Chippewa National Forest | INGER |
| 4 July 2004 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Chippewa National Forest | THE DAY AFTER FIRE |
| 13 June 2004 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Chippewa National Forest | TWO MILE LAKE |
| 8 May 1994 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | Chippewa National Forest | not named |
| 6 May 1993 | Arson/incendiarism | 2.0 acres | Chippewa National Forest | not named |
| 5 May 2003 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | Chippewa National Forest | CINCO |
Storms near this property
20 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Squaw Lake, the town this property stands in, in 20 storm reports between 1995 and 2020: 10 thunderstorm wind, 9 hail, 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 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Squaw Lake | - | Large trees were blown across a road. |
| July 2008 | Hail | Squaw Lake | - | Some accumulation of hail occurred with this storm. |
| May 2007 | Tornado (EF0) | Squaw Lake | - | A waterspout touched down on the northwest part of Lake Winnibigoshish on the afternoon of May 26th. The waterspout traveled northeast for 10 minutes and was associated with a thundershower in the area. No damage was reported.| |
| July 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Squaw Lake | - | Large tree branches were blown down. |
| August 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Squaw Lake | - | Trees and power lines were blown down across western Itasca County. |
| July 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Squaw Lake | - | Many power lines were blown down. |
| July 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Squaw Lake | - | Several trees were blown down. |
| June 2020 | Hail | Squaw Lake | - | no account filed |
| June 2014 | Hail | Squaw Lake | - | no account filed |
| July 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Squaw Lake | - | no account filed |
| July 1999 | Hail | Squaw Lake | - | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Squaw Lake | - | no account filed |
| July 1999 | Hail | Squaw Lake | - | no account filed |
| July 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Squaw Lake | - | no account filed |
| July 1998 | Hail | Squaw Lake | - | no account filed |
| August 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Squaw Lake | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Squaw Lake | - | no account filed |
| October 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Squaw Lake | - | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Hail | Squaw Lake | - | no account filed |
| July 1996 | Hail | Squaw Lake | - | 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.
Listed places nearby
1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Winnibigoshish Lake Dam | 6.1 miles | 1982 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 74001026 in Record Group 79. |
| Itasca County | All 19 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.