Coates House

Built in 1912. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

From the record

“The Coates House is a historic house in Virginia, Minnesota, United States. It was built around 1912 as one of the city's larger and finer residences.”
Wikipedia article Coates House (Virginia, Minnesota), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 126 National Register listings published here for St. Louis County · listed in 1980 · category: Building · built in 1912.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 817 S. 5th Ave., Virginia, 55792
When was it listed? August 1980
Category. building
City. Virginia city
When was it built? 1912
National Register reference number. 80004358 - 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

250 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 250 fires within 5 miles of Coates House between 1992 and 2020, burning about 532 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 77 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	77
Railroad operations and maintenance	49
Equipment and vehicle use	37
Debris and open burning	32
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	21
Recreation and ceremony	15
Natural	7
Misuse of fire by a minor	6
Smoking	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2

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
5 September 2006	Railroad operations and maintenance	71 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	JUNCTION 101 FIRE
14 September 1997	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Superior National Forest	PIKE MOUNTAIN
7 August 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
27 August 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
20 August 2007	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
16 August 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
16 August 2003	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 191 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 191 workings within 5 miles of Coates House: 156 past producers, 27 producers, 4 prospects, 2 plants. 29 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Water, Free, Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
Brunt Mine	Iron, Silica, Manganese, Aluminum, Water, Free, Phosphorus-Phosphates	Past Producer	1906
Cloquet Annex Reserve X-62	Iron, Aluminum, Manganese, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Silica, Water, Free	Past Producer	1943
Minorca Site Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Security Mine	Iron, Manganese, Silica, Aluminum, Water, Free, Phosphorus-Phosphates	Past Producer	1961
El Jay #2	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Sly Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Connie Mine	Iron, Water, Free	Past Producer	1978
Magnetic Taconite Mesabi Range 17w	Iron, Water, Free	Prospect	Surface
Magnetic Taconite Mesabi Range 18w	Iron, Water, Free	Prospect	Surface

Every working recorded in St. Louis County

Storms near this property

17 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Virginia, the town this property stands in, in 17 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 9 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 2 flash flood, 1 lightning. 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
September 2021	Lightning	Virginia	$50,000	A home on the 200 block of 5th Street South in Virginia was struck by lightning around 4:55AM CDT causing extensive damage. The home's electrical system was heavily damaged along with heavy damage to the exterior of the home. Firefighters were on scene for about 3 hours surveying the extent of the damage.
June 2025	Flash Flood	Virginia	-	Streets were flooded with water up to the rims of an SUV about 5 inches deep.
June 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Virginia	-	A large pine tree was down across 5th Avenue in Virginia.
July 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Virginia	-	A large tree was uprooted.
July 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Virginia	-	Numerous trees were blown down from Virginia, Mt. Iron, Ely, and Babbit. More trees and telephone poles were downed in the Vermilion Lake area at these specific locations: Birch Point, Mud Creek, Fraser Bay, and Pine Island.
August 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Virginia	-	Trees were blown down from Virginia to Hibbing.
July 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Virginia	-	Trees were blown down. Wind speed is estimated.
July 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Virginia	-	Several trees were blown down at Little Lake Fourteen. Wind speed is estimated.
July 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Virginia	-	Streets in a four-block area were blocked by fallen trees.
July 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Virginia	-	Thunderstorm winds toppled a 25-foot amateur radio antenna.
June 2024	Hail	Virginia	-	no account filed
August 2017	Hail	Virginia	-	no account filed
July 2012	Hail	Virginia	-	no account filed
July 2011	Hail	Virginia	-	no account filed
July 2003	Hail	Virginia	-	no account filed
June 2002	Flash Flood	Virginia	-	no account filed
July 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Virginia	-	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. T. Bailey House	under 500 feet	1980
B'nai Abraham Synagogue	0.3 miles	1980
Virginia-Rainy Lake Lumber Company Manager's Residence	0.3 miles	1980
St.Louis County District Courthouse	0.4 miles	1992
Church of St. John the Baptist (Catholic)	0.4 miles	1980
Virginia Brewery	0.5 miles	1980

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 80004358 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.
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.