Photograph of Chippewa National Forest Supervisor's Office — Photograph by McGhiever, CC BY-SA 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Supervisor's Office Headquarters

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.

From the record

One of 13 National Register listings published here for Cass County · listed in 1976 · category: Building.

Sources: 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. Ash Ave., Cass Lake, 56633
When was it listed? January 1976
Category. building
Township. Pike Bay township
National Register reference number. 76001049 - 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

267 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 267 fires within 5 miles of Supervisor's Office Headquarters between 1992 and 2020, burning about 525 acres in total. None started naturally. 96 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	96
Debris and open burning	76
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	31
Recreation and ceremony	23
Misuse of fire by a minor	12
Smoking	12
Equipment and vehicle use	9
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Railroad operations and maintenance	3
Other causes	1
Fireworks	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
25 September 1998	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
24 September 1992	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Chippewa National Forest	not named
2 September 2003	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Chippewa National Forest	SWEDE HILL
15 September 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
12 September 1995	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Chippewa National Forest	SO # 2
1 September 1996	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
8 August 2006	Debris and open burning	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

Every fire recorded in Cass County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Supervisor's Office Headquarters: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General. 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
	Beltrami County Marl Beds No 3	Limestone, General	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Cass County

Storms near this property

22 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cass Lake, the town this property stands in, in 22 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 16 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail. 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
June 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Cass Lake	-	A tree was down on camper at a campground.
June 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Cass Lake	-	A gust of 59 mph was recorded by Mesonet station CASM5 Cass Lake RAWS.
June 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Cass Lake	-	A large tree was uprooted at the Cass Lake rest area on US2.
May 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Cass Lake	-	Photos were received from the Chippewa National Forest of numerous small to medium trees down over forest roads.
July 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Cass Lake	-	The siding on the Palace Casino in Cass Lake was torn off by thunderstorm winds.
July 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Cass Lake	-	Trees as large as eighteen inches in diameter were blown down. Some trees were also uprooted.
July 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Cass Lake	-	Trees were blown down on Tract 33.
July 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Cass Lake	-	The gust was recorded by the Cass Lake remote automatic weather station.
July 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Cass Lake	-	A 3 diameter branch was down and partially blocking a driveway.
July 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Cass Lake	-	Widespread severe tree damage was reported along US 2. Trees were either blown down or leaning toward toward the east and southeast. Minor structural damage was also noted.
July 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Cass Lake	-	Widespread severe tree damage was reported along US 2.
June 2011	Hail	Cass Lake	-	Hail, up to quarter size, covered the ground.
August 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Cass Lake	-	This was the eastward extension of a wind-damage path of downed trees from Beltrami County, along Roosevelt Road.
June 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Cass Lake	-	Trees were blown down.
June 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Cass Lake	-	Large trees were blown down in Cass Lake.
June 2019	Hail	Cass Lake	-	no account filed
July 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Cass Lake	-	no account filed
April 2002	Hail	Cass Lake	-	no account filed
July 2001	Hail	Cass Lake	-	no account filed
July 1999	Hail	Cass Lake	-	no account filed
June 1999	Hail	Cass Lake	-	no account filed
July 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Cass Lake	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Cass 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

1 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.

Photograph	Property	Distance	Listed
	Great Northern Railway Company Bridge	7.7 miles	1980

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 76001049 in Record Group 79.
Cass County	All 13 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.
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.