Kettle Falls Hotel

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.

From the record

“The Kettle Falls Hotel is a historic hotel in what is now Voyageurs National Park in the U.S. state of Minnesota. It opened in 1913 deep in the wilderness of the Boundary Waters, at the juncture of Namakan and Rainy Lakes.”
Wikipedia article Kettle Falls Hotel, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 126 National Register listings published here for St. Louis County · listed in 1976 · category: Building.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. Kettle Channel in Voyageurs National Park, Island View, 56649
When was it listed? January 1976
Category. building
Unorganized territory. Northwest St. Louis
National Register reference number. 76000210 - 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 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Kettle Falls Hotel between 1995 and 2020, burning about 68 acres in total. 5 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	6
Natural	5
Smoking	1
Debris and open burning	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
4 September 2001	Recreation and ceremony	2.0 acres	Voyageurs National Park	GOLDRUSH
5 August 2020	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Voyageurs National Park	FOX ISLAND
27 August 2003	Natural	2.0 acres	Voyageurs National Park	LOG CAMP
25 August 1998	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Voyageurs National Park	MOUSE TRAP
20 August 2008	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Voyageurs National Park	LEAN 2 WF
2 August 2007	Debris and open burning	56 acres	Voyageurs National Park	MICA BAY
12 August 2020	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Voyageurs National Park	FISH CAMP BAY
9 July 2001	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Voyageurs National Park	FORTUNATE

Every fire recorded in St. Louis 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.

Listed places nearby

3 within 8 miles

Other 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Kettle Falls Historic District	0.1 miles	1978
I.W. Stevens Lakeside Cottage	6.4 miles	2011
Monson's Hoist Bay Resort	7.6 miles	2011

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 76000210 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
St. Louis County	All 126 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.