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One of 19 National Register listings published here for Itasca County · listed in 1982 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Itasca Lumber Company Superintendent's House
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.
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. 506 5th St., SE, Deer River, 56636
- When was it listed? April 1982
- Category. building
- Also known as. Itasca County MRA
- City. Deer River city
- National Register reference number. 82002976 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
124 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 124 fires within 5 miles of Itasca Lumber Company Superintendent's House between 1992 and 2020, burning about 363 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 24 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 | 58 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 24 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 19 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 11 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 4 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 3 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Fireworks | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 September 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 12 September 2018 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 10 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 9 August 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 15 August 2003 | Debris and open burning | 4.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 13 August 1996 | Natural | 2.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 9 July 2008 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 4 July 2007 | Debris and open burning | 1.5 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Storms near this property
26 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Deer River, the town this property stands in, in 26 storm reports between 1995 and 2022: 17 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 1 lightning, 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 | Deer River | $20,000 | Thunderstorm winds took off roofs, blew out windows, and pushed a truck down the street. |
| July 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Deer River | $15,000 | Signs and trees were blown down, windows were blown out, and a car overturned by very strong thunderstorm winds. |
| May 2022 | Tornado (EF1) | Deer River | - | A tornado produced a path of damage through the city of Deer River, with damage to numerous homes and businesses. The tornado likely began somewhere just south of Highway 2, though a precise location was difficult to determine due to a lack of |damage. The first damage observed was a camper/RV that was in a parking lot south of Highway 2 which was tossed across the highway into the parking lot of a furniture store building just north of the highway. The furniture store building had all of its south |facing windows blown out with damage to the front facade and some evidence of roof lift on the flat portion of the roof. The building also lost part of a gabled metal roof. A metal shed/outbuilding in the parking lot was completely destroyed. To the north, a two story building that includes a funeral home and post office had evidence of roof lift. Continuing north through the residential streets numerous trees were downed and several outbuildings - sheds and garage buildings - sustained significant damage, with some collapsing and others sliding off their foundations. This damage continued north- northwest, crossing state highway 6 around 7th Ave. Damage to the ball fields north of|town are believed to be part of the tornados path, with a small outbuilding and dugouts being destroyed and damage sustained to the metal chain link fence. Tree damage continued onto private property to the northwest, with the end of the tornado path estimated to be near or just south of County Road 142. Peak winds were estimated to be 107 mph. |
| July 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Deer River | - | A few trees were downed in Deer River. |
| July 2018 | Flash Flood | Deer River | - | Water covered the road at the intersection of US Highway 2 and Minnesota Highway 6 in Deer River. |
| July 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Deer River | - | Widespread wind damage occurred. |
| June 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Deer River | - | A large basswood tree with a trunk diamter of twenty inches was blown down. |
| July 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Deer River | - | Trees and power lines were blown down. |
| April 2004 | Lightning | Deer River | - | A tree exploded after being struck by lightning in rural Deer River. Debris from the tree broke windows and damaged siding to a home. |
| September 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Deer River | - | Power lines were blown down. |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Deer River | - | Tops of trees were snapped off. |
| August 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Deer River | - | Large tree branches were blown down 2 miles north of Day Lake. |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Deer River | - | Trees were blown down. |
| August 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Deer River | - | Trees up to 10 inches in diameter were blown down on State Highway 46. |
| June 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Deer River | - | no account filed |
| July 2002 | Hail | Deer River | - | no account filed |
| July 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Deer River | - | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Deer River | - | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Hail | Deer River | - | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Deer River | - | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Deer River | - | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Hail | Deer River | - | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Hail | Deer River | - | no account filed |
| August 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Deer River | - | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Hail | Deer River | - | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Hail | Deer River | - | 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.
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 82002976 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.