Kettle Falls Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.

From the record

“The Kettle Falls Historic District encompasses a remote pocket of early-20th-century industrial and commercial activity deep in the Boundary Waters, in what is now Voyageurs National Park in the U.S. state of Minnesota. Kettle Falls is the outlet from Namakan Lake into Rainy Lake on the Canada-United States border.”
Wikipedia article Kettle Falls Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 126 National Register listings published here for St. Louis County · listed in 1978 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. Kettle Channel in Voyageurs National Park, Island View, 56649
When was it listed? July 1978
Category. district
Unorganized territory. Northwest St. Louis
National Register reference number. 78000376 - 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

15 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Kettle Falls Historic District between 1992 and 2020, burning about 69 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	7
Natural	5
Other causes	1
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 Hotel	0.1 miles	1976
I.W. Stevens Lakeside Cottage	6.3 miles	2011
Monson's Hoist Bay Resort	7.5 miles	2011

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 78000376 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.