Oliver Boarding House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

From 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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. Jessie St., Marble, 55764
When was it listed? April 1982
Category. building
Also known as. Oliver Iron Mining Company Buildings TR
Township. Greenway township
National Register reference number. 82002977 - 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

142 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 142 fires within 5 miles of Oliver Boarding House between 1992 and 2020, burning about 954 acres in total. None started naturally. 96 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	96
Debris and open burning	29
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	9
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Recreation and ceremony	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 2012	Arson/incendiarism	3.8 acres	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
18 July 2001	Arson/incendiarism	6.0 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
5 June 2002	Arson/incendiarism	11 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
16 June 2003	Debris and open burning	8.0 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
14 June 1992	Arson/incendiarism	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
9 May 2008	Arson/incendiarism	2.8 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Itasca County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 84 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 84 workings within 5 miles of Oliver Boarding House: 51 past producers, 19 producers, 14 prospects. 19 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
Arcturus	Iron, Silica	Producer	1917
Holman-Cliffs Mine	Iron, Manganese, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Silica, Water, Free, Aluminum	Past Producer	1907
Homestead 0-68 Reserve	Aluminum, Iron, Manganese, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Silica, Water, Free	Prospect
Patrick-Ann Mine	Iron, Aluminum, Manganese, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Silica, Water, Free	Past Producer	1917
U.S. Steel Reserve O-69	Iron, Aluminum, Manganese, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Silica, Water, Free	Prospect
West Diamond Reserve	Aluminum, Iron, Manganese, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Silica, Water, Free	Prospect
Delaware #1 & #2	Iron, Water, Free	Past Producer	1913
Hill Lake Pit & Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Magnetic Taconite Mesabi Range 23w	Iron, Water, Free	Prospect	Surface
Plummer Group	Iron, Water, Free	Past Producer	1954

Every working recorded in Itasca County

Storms near this property

5 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Marble, the town this property stands in, in 5 storm reports between 1999 and 2022: 2 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 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
June 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Marble	-	Ten mid-sized pine and spruce were downed partially across a county road.
August 2020	Flash Flood	Marble	-	A culvert was washed out on County Road 69 near Birch Drive south of Marble leading to the closure of CR 69.
July 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Marble	-	Spruce trees were blown down onto power lines.
August 2003	Hail	Marble	-	no account filed
July 1999	Hail	Marble	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Itasca 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
Hill Annex Mine	1.9 miles	1986
Bovey Village Hall	5.6 miles	1991
General Superintendent's House	6.2 miles	1982
Hartley Sugar Camp	6.2 miles	1982
Coleraine City Hall	6.2 miles	1992
Canisteo District General Office Building	6.2 miles	1982

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 82002977 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.