Elevated Metal Water Tank, Trommald

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

From the record

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. In Trommald, Trommald, 56441
When was it listed? October 1980
Category. structure
Also known as. Cuyuna Iron Range Municipally-Owned Elevated Metal Water Tanks TR
City. Trommald city
National Register reference number. 80002038 - 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

170 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 170 fires within 5 miles of Elevated Metal Water Tank, Trommald between 1992 and 2020, burning about 363 acres in total. None started naturally. 45 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	66
Arson/incendiarism	45
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	25
Recreation and ceremony	17
Equipment and vehicle use	14
Smoking	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
21 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
19 September 1998	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
9 August 2007	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
3 August 2006	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
19 August 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
1 August 2005	Debris and open burning	1.6 acres	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
24 July 2006	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

10 of 135 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 135 workings within 5 miles of Elevated Metal Water Tank, Trommald: 118 past producers, 10 prospects, 3 unknowns, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Manganese, Iron, Manganese, Limestone, General. 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	Recorded
Algoma-Zeno Mine	Iron, Manganese	Past Producer	1904, 1915
Crow Wing County Marl Beds No 15	Limestone, General	Occurrence
Algoma Mine	Iron, Manganese	Past Producer	Hematite, Magnetite
Algoma Mine	Manganese	Producer	1920
Alstead Mine	Iron, Manganese	Past Producer	Hematite, Magnetite
Alstead-North Hillcrest Mine	Manganese	Past Producer	1955
Arko Mine	Iron, Manganese	Past Producer	Hematite, Magnetite
Arko Mine	Manganese	Past Producer	1955
Armour No.2 Mine	Iron, Manganese	Past Producer	1912
Armour Number 1 Mine	Manganese	Past Producer	1955

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
Ironton Sintering Plant Complex	2.5 miles	1980
Ironton City Hall	2.9 miles	2002
Spina Hotel	2.9 miles	1980
Milford Mine Historic District	3.1 miles	2011
Elevated Metal Water Tank, Ironton	3.1 miles	1980
Elevated Metal Water Tank, Crosby	3.7 miles	1980

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 80002038 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.