Photograph of Finlayson station — Photograph by Elkman, CC BY-SA 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Northern Pacific Depot

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

From the record

“The Northern Pacific Depot in Finlayson, Minnesota, United States, is a one-story wood frame passenger depot built on the Northern Pacific Railway line in 1909 to replace an earlier smaller depot. The rail line was originally built by the Lake Superior and Mississippi Railroad in 1870.”
Wikipedia article Finlayson station, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 22 National Register listings published here for Pine 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. Front St. at Finland Ave., Finlayson, 55735
When was it listed? August 1980
Category. building
Also known as. Pine County MRA
City. Finlayson city
National Register reference number. 80002107 - 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

194 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 194 fires within 5 miles of Northern Pacific Depot between 1992 and 2020, burning about 412 acres in total. None started naturally. 49 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	73
Arson/incendiarism	49
Equipment and vehicle use	35
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	23
Smoking	5
Recreation and ceremony	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Other causes	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	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 2003	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
8 September 2003	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
20 September 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
15 September 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
9 August 2001	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
5 August 2013	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
4 August 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
2 August 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Pine County

Storms near this property

17 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Finlayson, the town this property stands in, in 17 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 11 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 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 2025	Hail	Finlayson	-	Hail was mainly dime to quarter size with the largest hail stones being 1.5 inches in diameter.
July 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Finlayson	-	A cluster of trees were snapped at the base along with a spruce tree being uprooted.
July 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Finlayson	-	A couple of large spruce trees were downed.
August 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Finlayson	-	Multiple trees were downed in Finlayson by the storm. The trees were mostly dead birch and tamarack, but a few live popple trees were uprooted as well.
July 2016	Flash Flood	Finlayson	-	The Pine County Sheriff's Office reported water over the road near the intersection of Highway 61 and Eds Road.
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Finlayson	-	Several trees were blown down.
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Finlayson	-	About 50 homes lost power as trees fell on power lines.
July 2025	Hail	Finlayson	-	no account filed
July 2025	Hail	Finlayson	-	no account filed
June 2024	Hail	Finlayson	-	no account filed
June 2024	Hail	Finlayson	-	no account filed
June 2024	Hail	Finlayson	-	no account filed
July 2020	Hail	Finlayson	-	no account filed
July 2017	Hail	Finlayson	-	no account filed
April 2004	Hail	Finlayson	-	no account filed
April 2004	Hail	Finlayson	-	no account filed
June 1996	Hail	Finlayson	-	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

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
John A. Oldenburg House	under 500 feet	1978
Minneapolis Trust Company Commercial Building	5.3 miles	1980
Sandstone School	5.3 miles	1979
Hinckley Fire Relief House	5.3 miles	1980
Kettle River Sandstone Company Quarry	5.3 miles	1991
Kettle River Bridge	5.7 miles	1998

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 80002107 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
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.