Eveleth Manual Training Center

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

From the record

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

Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Listing status. The Park Service records this property as Removed.
What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. Roosevelt Ave., Eveleth, 55734
When was it listed? August 1980
Category. building
City. Eveleth city
National Register reference number. 80004343 - 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

300 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 300 fires within 5 miles of Eveleth Manual Training Center between 1992 and 2020, burning about 570 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 93 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
Arson/incendiarism	93
Debris and open burning	60
Railroad operations and maintenance	50
Equipment and vehicle use	36
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	27
Recreation and ceremony	15
Natural	7
Misuse of fire by a minor	5
Smoking	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
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
9 September 2005	Natural	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
5 September 2006	Railroad operations and maintenance	71 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	JUNCTION 101 FIRE
26 September 1995	Railroad operations and maintenance	1.0 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
7 August 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
5 August 2001	Railroad operations and maintenance	1.1 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
31 August 2012	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
31 August 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
29 August 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in St. Louis County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 120 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 120 workings within 5 miles of Eveleth Manual Training Center: 97 past producers, 18 producers, 3 prospects, 1 occurrence. 18 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Water, Free, Aluminum, Manganese, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Silica, Water, Free. 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
Auburn & Great Western Mines	Iron, Silica, Water, Free, Aluminum, Manganese, Phosphorus-Phosphates	Producer	1894
Cloquet Annex Reserve X-62	Iron, Aluminum, Manganese, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Silica, Water, Free	Past Producer	1943
Security Mine	Iron, Manganese, Silica, Aluminum, Water, Free, Phosphorus-Phosphates	Past Producer	1961
Magnetic Taconite Mesabi Range 17w	Iron, Water, Free	Prospect	Surface
Rouchleau Group	Iron, Water, Free	Past Producer	1943
Gulbranson Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Gulbranson Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Sly Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Aad Mine	Iron	Past Producer	1904
Alberta Mine	Iron	Past Producer	1907

Every working recorded in St. Louis County

Storms near this property

12 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Eveleth, the town this property stands in, in 12 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 7 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 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 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Eveleth	$6,000	Thunderstorm winds from 61 to 70 kts (70-80 mph) tipped over boats and caused power outages.
June 2025	Flash Flood	Eveleth	-	Water was over Old Highway 53 along with a minor washout of road surface. Highway 53 was being routed down Old Highway 53. Highway 53 was not only flooded over but the current was so strong coming down that hill that car tires were slipping.
July 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Eveleth	-	A large willow tree was down over a road.
June 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Eveleth	-	Numerous trees and power lines were blown down.
July 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Eveleth	-	Power lines were down along Routes 53 and 37.
August 2011	Hail	Eveleth	-	Hail covered the ground.
May 2011	Hail	Eveleth	-	Hail was measured to be 13-20mm in diameter, or 0.51 to 0.79 inches in diameter. The hail lasted about 3 minutes.
June 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Eveleth	-	Shingles were blown off a roof.
August 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Eveleth	-	Trees were blown down on County Highway 25
June 2002	Hail	Eveleth	-	no account filed
May 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Eveleth	-	no account filed
June 1996	Hail	Eveleth	-	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

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
W. Bailey House	under 500 feet	1980
Hotel Glode	0.2 miles	1980
Church of the Holy Family (Catholic)	0.2 miles	1980
Eveleth Recreation Building	0.4 miles	1980
W. T. Bailey House	3.5 miles	1980
Coates House	3.5 miles	1980

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 80004343 in Record Group 79.
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.
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.
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.