Alango School

Built in 1927. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

From the record

“Alango School is a former school building in Alango Township, Minnesota, United States. It was built in 1927 in a sparsely populated area of northern Minnesota that was still in the early stages of being homesteaded and settled by Euro-Americans.”
Wikipedia article Alango School, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 126 National Register listings published here for St. Louis County · listed in 1980 · category: Building · built in 1927.

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. Hwys. 25 and 22, Cook, 55703
When was it listed? July 1980
Category. building
Township. Alango township
When was it built? 1927
National Register reference number. 80004338 - 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

64 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 64 fires within 5 miles of Alango School between 1992 and 2016, burning about 141 acres in total. 5 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	23
Arson/incendiarism	13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	12
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Natural	5
Recreation and ceremony	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Other causes	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 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
6 September 2007	Natural	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
3 September 2005	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
2 September 2014	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
12 September 2005	Natural	1.0 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
6 August 2007	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
27 August 2013	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
26 August 2007	Natural	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in St. Louis County

Storms near this property

26 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cook, the town this property stands in, in 26 storm reports between 1999 and 2024: 11 thunderstorm wind, 7 flash flood, 6 hail, 1 funnel cloud. 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
June 2024	Flood	Cook	$1,000,000	Streets and yards in the city of Cook were under water. Low spots of Highway 24 were under water with up to 6 to 12 inches of water across roads. This was following the heavy rainfall on the 18th where 3 to 7 inches of rainfall fell across the region. This led to major flooding occurring along the Littlefork River in the city of Cook, where floodwaters inundated downtown, surrounding residences and businesses with several feet of water, closing dozens of roads, and prompting sandbagging efforts and evacuation of parts of the city. Federal and state disasters were declared once the water receded nearly a week later.
June 2024	Flash Flood	Cook	$100,000	Streets and yards in the city of Cook were under water. Low spots of Highway 24 were under water with up to 6 to 12 inches of water across roads.
June 2024	Flash Flood	Cook	-	Roads in the area were entirely covered with at least 6 inches of water.
June 2024	Flash Flood	Cook	-	The intersection of Vermilion Drive and County Road 115 was covered in water and washing out at the time of the report.
June 2024	Flash Flood	Cook	-	Portions of Minnesota Highway 1 were closed between Minnesota Highway 65 and Us Highway 53 due to flooding.
May 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Cook	-	Three power poles were snapped near Cook along with several trees down on power lines.
July 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Cook	-	The St. Louis County Sheriffs Department received reports of downed trees on the east side of Cook.
June 2018	Flash Flood	Cook	-	Luthey Road and Beaty Road were closed due to washouts and water over the roads.
June 2018	Flash Flood	Cook	-	There was curb to curb flooding on 1st Avenue Northwest and water over U. S. Highway 53 in the town of Cook.
July 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Cook	-	Multiple trees were blown down.
July 2018	Flash Flood	Cook	-	Beatty Road was washed out near Flint Creek.
July 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Cook	-	Trees were blown down in the Cook area.
September 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Cook	-	Power was out to 2500 customers from Cook to Ely as thunderstorms with high winds toppled trees and branches onto power lines.
April 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Cook	-	Trees and power lines were blown down in the Cook area.
July 2006	Hail	Cook	-	Hail fell at the intersecion of Highways 53 and 73.
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Cook	-	Numerous trees were blown down.
July 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Cook	-	Numerous trees were blown down.
July 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Cook	-	Trees were blown down. The wind speed is estimated.
July 2022	Hail	Cook	-	no account filed
September 2012	Hail	Cook	-	no account filed
June 2010	Funnel Cloud	Cook	-	no account filed
May 2005	Hail	Cook	-	no account filed
July 2003	Hail	Cook	-	no account filed
August 1999	Hail	Cook	-	no account filed
July 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Cook	-	no account filed
June 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Cook	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in St. Louis 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

1 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
	Flint Creek Farm Historic District	6.2 miles	1989

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 80004338 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
St. Louis County	All 126 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.