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Photograph of Northland
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Northland

Built in 1916. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.

From the record

“Northland is a historic railroad passenger car built in 1916 for the Duluth, Missabe and Northern Railway to transport managers and important guests. The car was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978 for its state-level significance in the theme of transportation.”

Wikipedia article Northland (railcar), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 126 National Register listings published here for St. Louis County · listed in 1978 · category: Structure · built in 1916.

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 structure as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. Off U.S. 2, Proctor, 55810
  • When was it listed? July 1978
  • Category. structure
  • City. Proctor city
  • When was it built? 1916
  • National Register reference number. 78003129 - 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

268 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 268 fires within 5 miles of Northland between 1992 and 2020, burning about 253 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 17 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
Railroad operations and maintenance110
Debris and open burning64
Equipment and vehicle use32
Missing data/not specified/undetermined21
Arson/incendiarism17
Recreation and ceremony10
Smoking6
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Fireworks1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Natural1
Other causes1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
24 September 1998Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 August 2010Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 August 2007Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 August 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 August 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 August 2013Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 August 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Every fire recorded in St. Louis County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Northland: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Maple Grove PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Zenith Dredge Co QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in St. Louis County

Storms near this property

10 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Proctor, the town this property stands in, in 10 storm reports between 2002 and 2018: 6 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
September 2018Thunderstorm WindProctor-A tree snapped by the wind landed on a garage while another tree was uprooted in the adjacent yard.
September 2018Thunderstorm WindProctor-A 40 foot tall tree was snapped in half. Many smaller trees were also damaged or blown down by the thunderstorm winds.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindProctor-An aluminum flag pole was snapped in half by the wind.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindProctor-Trees were blown down along the Willard Munger State Trail.
June 2014HailProctor-no account filed
May 2012HailProctor-no account filed
August 2011HailProctor-no account filed
July 2010HailProctor-no account filed
May 2009HailProctor-no account filed
June 2002HailProctor-no account filed

Every storm 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

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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Irving School2.8 miles1992
Bridge No. L60072.9 miles1989
United Protestant Church3.6 miles2024
Lincoln Branch Library4.8 miles2013
St. George Serbian Orthodox Church5.3 miles2024
Munger Terrace6.2 miles1976

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 78003129 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
St. Louis CountyAll 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.
  • 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.