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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
Canisteo District General Office Building
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 200 Cole Ave., Coleraine, 55722
- When was it listed? April 1982
- Category. building
- Also known as. Oliver Iron Mining Company Buildings TR
- City. Taconite city
- National Register reference number. 82002970 - 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
112 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 112 fires within 5 miles of Canisteo District General Office Building between 1992 and 2020, burning about 214 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 42 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 | 42 |
| Debris and open burning | 34 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 20 |
| Smoking | 8 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 September 2003 | Smoking | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 21 August 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 5 July 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | 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 |
| 9 May 2013 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.5 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 8 May 2006 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 7 May 2016 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 7 May 2008 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 72 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 72 workings within 5 miles of Canisteo District General Office Building: 38 past producers, 21 producers, 11 prospects, 2 occurrences. 21 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Water, Free, Aluminum, Manganese, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Silica, Water, Free, Limestone, General. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Buckeye Mine | Iron, Aluminum, Manganese, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Water, Free, Silica | Past Producer | 1943 | |
| Fargo Reserve H-5 | Iron, Water, Free, Aluminum, Manganese, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Silica | Prospect | ||
| Holman-Cliffs Mine | Iron, Manganese, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Silica, Water, Free, Aluminum | Past Producer | 1907 | |
| Bovey-Delaittre Reserve H-27 | Iron, Aluminum, Manganese, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Silica, Water, Free | Prospect | ||
| Hill Lake Pit & Mill | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Homestead 0-68 Reserve | Aluminum, Iron, Manganese, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Silica, Water, Free | Prospect | ||
| Itasca County Marl Beds No 1 | Limestone, General | Occurrence | ||
| Itasca County Marl Beds No 2 | Limestone, General | Occurrence | ||
| Lind-Greenway Mine | Iron, Water, Free | Past Producer | 1890, 1940 | |
| Plummer Group | Iron, Water, Free | Past Producer | 1954 |
Storms near this property
11 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Coleraine, the town this property stands in, in 11 storm reports between 1999 and 2024: 8 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind. 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 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Coleraine | - | Numerous small to medium sized trees were uprooted or snapped per photos received. |
| July 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Coleraine | - | A tree was knocked down onto County Road 440. |
| July 2006 | Hail | Coleraine | - | There were also numerous trees down. |
| July 2006 | Hail | Coleraine | - | Numerous trees and branches were also blown down. |
| June 2022 | Hail | Coleraine | - | no account filed |
| June 2022 | Hail | Coleraine | - | no account filed |
| July 2021 | Hail | Coleraine | - | no account filed |
| July 2021 | Hail | Coleraine | - | no account filed |
| September 2007 | Hail | Coleraine | - | no account filed |
| August 2001 | Hail | Coleraine | - | no account filed |
| July 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Coleraine | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| General Superintendent's House | under 500 feet | 1982 | |
 | Coleraine Carnegie Library | 0.1 miles | 1980 |
 | Coleraine City Hall | 0.2 miles | 1992 |
| Coleraine Methodist Episcopal Church | 0.2 miles | 1982 | |
| Church of the Good Shepherd | 0.3 miles | 1980 | |
| Bovey Village Hall | 0.7 miles | 1991 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 82002970 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.
- 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.