Ramsey County Poor Farm Barn

Built in 1918. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.

From the record

“The Ramsey County Poor Farm Barn served as home and work for the indigent in Ramsey County, Minnesota, United States. The barn is now used by the Ramsey County Cooperative extension service.”
Wikipedia article Ramsey County Poor Farm Barn, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 134 National Register listings published here for Ramsey County · listed in 1977 · category: Building · built in 1918.

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 2 structuress, 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 2020 White Bear Ave., St. Paul, 55109
When was it listed? September 1977
Category. building
City. Maplewood city
When was it built? 1918
National Register reference number. 77000766 - 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

8 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Ramsey County Poor Farm Barn between 1994 and 2020, burning about 62 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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	3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
13 September 1996	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
8 July 2015	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Sherburne National Wildlife Refuge	FORKS FIRE
7 May 2009	Equipment and vehicle use	12 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	RED ARROW
2 May 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
23 April 2008	Debris and open burning	26 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	OAK CREST
23 April 1994	Arson/incendiarism	20 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
1 April 2020	Arson/incendiarism	1.2 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	SAND DUNES
21 October 2000	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Ramsey 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

6 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
Charles W. Schneider House	2.0 miles	1984
Church of St. Casimir-Catholic	2.5 miles	1983
Ann Charlotte and Jacob Hinkel House	3.0 miles	1978
3M Administration Building	3.1 miles	2015
Payne Avenue State Bank	3.1 miles	2007
Arlington Hills Library	3.4 miles	1984

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 77000766 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Ramsey County	All 134 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.