Gold Mine Sites

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.

From the record

One of 10 National Register listings published here for Koochiching County · listed in 1977 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. Off MN 11 in Voyageurs National Park, Island View, 56649
When was it listed? May 1977
Category. district
Unorganized territory. Rainy Lake
National Register reference number. 77000155 - 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

33 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 33 fires within 5 miles of Gold Mine Sites between 1992 and 2018, burning about 10 acres in total. 5 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
Recreation and ceremony	17
Natural	5
Debris and open burning	5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Arson/incendiarism	2
Equipment and vehicle use	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
9 September 2006	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Voyageurs National Park	OLD MISNER CABIN
6 September 2017	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
3 September 2001	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Voyageurs National Park	HOLIDAYFIR
20 September 1998	Natural	under an acre	Voyageurs National Park	LONE PINE
17 September 2002	Natural	under an acre	Voyageurs National Park	CRANBERRY
9 August 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
8 August 1997	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
5 August 1997	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Koochiching County

Mines and quarries near this property

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Gold Mine Sites: 4 unknowns, 1 past producer, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Sulfur-Pyrite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Little America Mine	Gold, Sulfur-Pyrite	Past Producer	1893, 1894
Bushyhead Island Prospect	Gold	Unknown	Gold
Cranberry Islet Prospect	Gold	Unknown	Gold
Grassy Island Prospect	Gold	Unknown	Gold
Lyle Mine	Gold	Occurrence	Gold
Steamboat Islet Prospect	Gold	Unknown	Gold

Every working recorded in Koochiching County

Storms near this property

1 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Island View, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 2016: 1 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 2016	Hail	Island View	-	The report was from a Voyageurs National Park Ranger.

Every storm recorded in Koochiching 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

2 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
	Little American Mine	1.9 miles	1975
	Ernest C. Oberholtzer Rainy Lake Islands Historic District	3.6 miles	2000

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 77000155 in Record Group 79.
Koochiching County	All 10 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.