BlockFrom the record
One of 19 National Register listings published here for Itasca County · listed in 1982 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Frank Gran Farmstead
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 8 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
- Listed as. Gran, Frank, Farmstead - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
- Address. Co. Hwy. 10, La Prairie, 55709
- When was it listed? April 1982
- Category. building
- Also known as. Itasca County MRA
- Unorganized territory. Little Sand Lake
- National Register reference number. 82002969 - 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
92 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 92 fires within 5 miles of Frank Gran Farmstead between 1992 and 2020, burning about 206 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 19 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 | 38 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 19 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 12 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 7 |
| Smoking | 4 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 4 |
| Natural | 3 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 2 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17 July 2001 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 6 June 2011 | Natural | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 5 June 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 8 May 2020 | Other causes | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 8 May 2006 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 6 May 1997 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 5 May 2015 | Arson/incendiarism | 10 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 5 May 2013 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Storms near this property
7 since 2016Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names La Prairie, the town this property stands in, in 7 storm reports between 2016 and 2022: 5 hail, 1 flood, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2020 | Flash Flood | La Prairie | - | Two feet of water was covering US Highway 169 in the vicinity of Glenwood Drive causing the road to be closed. |
| July 2017 | Flood | La Prairie | - | Highway 169 was flooded with four to five inches of standing water covering the road. |
| May 2022 | Hail | La Prairie | - | no account filed |
| August 2022 | Hail | La Prairie | - | no account filed |
| July 2021 | Hail | La Prairie | - | no account filed |
| July 2021 | Hail | La Prairie | - | no account filed |
| March 2016 | Hail | La Prairie | - | no account filed |
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 milesOther 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hartley Sugar Camp | 5.8 miles | 1982 | |
| General Superintendent's House | 7.8 miles | 1982 | |
| Canisteo District General Office Building | 7.8 miles | 1982 | |
 | Coleraine Carnegie Library | 7.9 miles | 1980 |
 | Coleraine City Hall | 8.0 miles | 1992 |
| Coleraine Methodist Episcopal Church | 8.0 miles | 1982 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 82002969 in Record Group 79. |
| Itasca County | All 19 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.