Photograph of Lake Hubert Depot — Photograph by Elkman, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Minnesota and International Railroad Freight House and Shelter Shed

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

From the record

“Lake Hubert Depot in Lake Hubert, Minnesota, United States, is a one-story wood frame passenger depot built on the Minnesota and International Railway line around 1918. The rail line later became part of the Northern Pacific Railway and is now part of the Paul Bunyan State Trail.”
Wikipedia article Lake Hubert station, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 31 National Register listings published here for Crow Wing County · listed in 1980 · category: Building.

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 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. Co. Hwy. 30, Nissawa, 56468
When was it listed? May 1980
Category. building
Township. Lake Edward township
National Register reference number. 80002033 - 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

191 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 191 fires within 5 miles of Minnesota and International Railroad Freight House and Shelter Shed between 1992 and 2020, burning about 463 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 13 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	106
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	39
Equipment and vehicle use	16
Arson/incendiarism	13
Recreation and ceremony	8
Smoking	6
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Natural	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
5 September 2003	Smoking	2.0 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
28 September 1994	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
14 September 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
7 July 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
6 July 2005	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
4 July 1996	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
31 July 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
3 July 2002	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Crow Wing County

Mines and quarries near this property

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Minnesota and International Railroad Freight House and Shelter Shed: 6 occurrences, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General, 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Whitney Pit & Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Crow Wing County Marl Beds No 11	Limestone, General	Occurrence
Crow Wing County Marl Beds No 16	Limestone, General	Occurrence
Crow Wing County Marl Beds No 17	Limestone, General	Occurrence
Crow Wing County Marl Beds No 18	Limestone, General	Occurrence
Crow Wing County Marl Beds No 19	Limestone, General	Occurrence
Nisswa Lake Deposit	Limestone, General	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Crow Wing 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
Minnewawa Lodge	0.7 miles	1980
Grand View Lodge	2.8 miles	1980
Wilford H. Fawcett House	6.6 miles	1980
Pequot Fire Lookout Tower	7.3 miles	2017
H. H. Broach House	7.4 miles	1980
A.L. Cole Memorial Building	7.5 miles	2004

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 80002033 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
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.