Saum Schools

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

From the record

One of 11 National Register listings published here for Beltrami County · listed in 1980 · 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 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. Co. Hwy. 23, Kelliher, 56650
When was it listed? March 1980
Category. building
Township. Woodrow township
National Register reference number. 80001937 - 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

293 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 293 fires within 5 miles of Saum Schools between 1992 and 2020, burning about 6,528 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 75 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
Debris and open burning	102
Arson/incendiarism	75
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	69
Misuse of fire by a minor	40
Recreation and ceremony	3
Natural	2
Fireworks	1
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
8 September 2006	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
7 September 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Red Lake Agency	RED LAKE 221
3 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Red Lake Agency	RED LAKE 468
19 September 2009	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Red Lake Agency	RED LAKE AGENCY
14 September 2007	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Red Lake Agency	RL336
11 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	160 acres	Red Lake Agency	RED LAKE 476
10 September 2012	Natural	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
26 August 2011	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Red Lake Agency	RED LAKE 284

Every fire recorded in Beltrami County

Storms near this property

17 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kelliher, the town this property stands in, in 17 storm reports between 1999 and 2023: 8 thunderstorm wind, 8 hail, 1 flash flood. 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
July 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Kelliher	$5,000	Roofing material was blown off the Kelliher Cafe. Several large trees were also blown down.
July 2023	Hail	Kelliher	-	Emergency Manager of Beltrami county reports quarter sized hail 4 miles west of Kelliher.
July 2023	Hail	Kelliher	-	Beltrami county emergency manager reports golf ball sized hail that caused a lot of damage to his vehicle. Cost of damage unknown.
May 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Kelliher	-	Several large pine and poplar trees were snapped or uprooted along Highway 72, between Shooks and Kelliher. Time estimated based on radar and nearby wind sensor reports.
August 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Kelliher	-	Received a public report of a few large 3 to 5 inch branches broken down.
August 2022	Hail	Kelliher	-	Report of very heavy rains and lots of pea size hail, with a few up to nickel size. Report posted via social media. Time estimated based on radar.
August 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Kelliher	-	Scattered power outages were reported.
June 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Kelliher	-	Aircraft were overturned at the Kelliher airport. Some of the aircraft were pushed onto highway 72.
June 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Kelliher	-	Extensive tree damage was reported.
August 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Kelliher	-	A tree, about 10 inches in diameter, was blown down across a road.
June 2005	Flash Flood	Kelliher	-	Water flowed over highway 72 from Cormorant Creek and Battle River.
July 2008	Hail	Kelliher	-	no account filed
June 2003	Hail	Kelliher	-	no account filed
June 2002	Hail	Kelliher	-	no account filed
July 2001	Hail	Kelliher	-	no account filed
August 2000	Hail	Kelliher	-	no account filed
July 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Kelliher	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Beltrami 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 80001937 in Record Group 79.
Beltrami County	All 11 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.
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.