John Doboszenski Farmstead

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

From the record

One of 22 National Register listings published here for Pine 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 4 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Doboszenski, John, Farmstead - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. Off Co. Hwy. 43, Willow River, 55795
When was it listed? August 1980
Category. building
Also known as. Pine County MRA
Township. Norman township
National Register reference number. 80002105 - 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

162 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 162 fires within 5 miles of John Doboszenski Farmstead between 1993 and 2020, burning about 361 acres in total. None started naturally. 24 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	68
Equipment and vehicle use	32
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	27
Arson/incendiarism	24
Recreation and ceremony	7
Smoking	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
16 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
15 September 1998	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
13 September 2011	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
13 September 2011	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
30 August 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
22 August 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
21 August 1996	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
14 August 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Pine County

Storms near this property

15 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Willow River, the town this property stands in, in 15 storm reports between 1995 and 2023: 7 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 2 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
May 2018	Flash Flood	Willow River	-	Water was reported over County Highway 41 near Willow River by local law enforcement.
June 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Willow River	-	A 3 to 4 diameter tree was snapped off.
June 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Willow River	-	Thirty to 40 trees were blown down around town. Most were uprooted, but some were broken about 15 to 20 feet above the ground.
July 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Willow River	-	A few trees were blown down in the Willow River Campground area.
August 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Willow River	-	Large pine trees, about 12 inches in diameter, were blown down.
May 2012	Flash Flood	Willow River	-	Scotch Pine Road was washed out for 1000 yards at Highway 41.
August 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Willow River	-	Trees were blown down from Willow River to Sturgeon Lake. Wind speed is estimated.
July 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Willow River	-	Strong thunderstorm winds blew down many large trees and power lines across Carlton and Pine Counties. Two trees fell on a mobile home in Moose Lake.
July 2023	Hail	Willow River	-	no account filed
July 2023	Hail	Willow River	-	no account filed
July 2023	Hail	Willow River	-	no account filed
June 2018	Hail	Willow River	-	no account filed
August 2014	Hail	Willow River	-	no account filed
May 2010	Hail	Willow River	-	no account filed
May 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Willow River	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Pine 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

2 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	Property	Distance	Listed
	Willow River Rutabaga Warehouse and Processing Plant	3.4 miles	1990
	Peter P. Kilstofte Farmstead	7.8 miles	1980

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 80002105 in Record Group 79.
Pine County	All 22 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.