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One of 31 National Register listings published here for Crow Wing County · listed in 1980 · category: Structure.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Elevated Metal Water Tank, Deerwood
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 211 Maple St., Deerwood, 56444
- When was it listed? October 1980
- Category. structure
- Also known as. Cuyuna Iron Range Municipally-Owned Elevated Metal Water Tanks TR
- City. Deerwood city
- National Register reference number. 80002029 - 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
169 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 169 fires within 5 miles of Elevated Metal Water Tank, Deerwood between 1992 and 2020, burning about 473 acres in total. None started naturally. 36 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 | 70 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 36 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 24 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 18 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 10 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 6 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Fireworks | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19 September 1998 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 18 August 2003 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 14 August 2004 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 13 August 2007 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 9 July 2007 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 4 July 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 25 July 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.5 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 15 July 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 70 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 70 workings within 5 miles of Elevated Metal Water Tank, Deerwood: 62 past producers, 6 prospects, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Manganese, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron, Manganese. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Northland Mine | Iron, Manganese | Past Producer | ||
| Portage Lake Pit & Mill | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Range Redi Mix Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Adams Mine | Iron, Manganese | Past Producer | ||
| Armour No.2 Mine | Iron, Manganese | Past Producer | 1912 | |
| Armour Number 1 Mine | Manganese | Past Producer | 1955 | |
| Armour Number 2 Mine | Manganese | Past Producer | 1955 | |
| Bonnie Bell Mine | Iron, Manganese | Past Producer | ||
| Croft Mine | Manganese | Past Producer | 1934 | |
| Crow Wing Reserve | Iron, Manganese | Prospect |
Storms near this property
12 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Deerwood, the town this property stands in, in 12 storm reports between 1999 and 2024: 6 hail, 6 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Deerwood | - | A tree was downed onto a garage. |
| July 2016 | Hail | Deerwood | - | There was video of the falling hail up to the size of quarters. |
| September 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Deerwood | - | Trees were down and blocking Highway 6. |
| July 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Deerwood | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts knocked down small trees with the diameter of about a softball. |
| July 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Deerwood | - | Trees were blown down. |
| June 2022 | Hail | Deerwood | - | no account filed |
| August 2015 | Hail | Deerwood | - | no account filed |
| May 2014 | Hail | Deerwood | - | no account filed |
| May 2012 | Hail | Deerwood | - | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Hail | Deerwood | - | no account filed |
| July 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Deerwood | - | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Deerwood | - | no account filed |
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 milesOther 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Deerwood Auditorium | under 500 feet | 1995 |
 | Soo Line Depot | 2.5 miles | 1980 |
 | Elevated Metal Water Tank, Crosby | 2.5 miles | 1980 |
| Cuyuna Village Hall | 3.1 miles | 2024 | |
| Elevated Metal Water Tank, Cuyuna | 3.2 miles | 1980 | |
| Elevated Metal Water Tank, Ironton | 3.7 miles | 1980 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 80002029 in Record Group 79. |
| Crow Wing County | All 31 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.