Winnibigoshish Lake Dam

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

From the record

“The Winnibigoshish Lake Dam is a dam at the outlet of Lake Winnibigoshish into the Mississippi River in Minnesota, United States. The dam crosses the county line between Cass County and Itasca County, and lies within the Leech Lake Indian Reservation.”
Wikipedia article Winnibigoshish Lake Dam, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 19 National Register listings published here for Itasca County · listed in 1982 · category: Structure.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · 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 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. Co. Hwy. 9 at Mississippi River, Inger, 56636
When was it listed? May 1982
Category. structure
National Register reference number. 82004629 - 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

43 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 43 fires within 5 miles of Winnibigoshish Lake Dam between 1992 and 2020, burning about 179 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 14 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	14
Debris and open burning	10
Recreation and ceremony	6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Natural	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
16 September 2006	Natural	under an acre	Chippewa National Forest	HOPKINS
2 August 2002	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Chippewa National Forest	STOCKING FIRE
14 August 1995	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Chippewa National Forest	WINNIE DAM
4 July 2004	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Chippewa National Forest	THE DAY AFTER FIRE
23 July 2004	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Chippewa National Forest	WEST WINNIE DAM
30 June 2000	Recreation and ceremony	60 acres	Chippewa National Forest	WINNIE DAM FIRE
7 May 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Chippewa National Forest	BOAT AXLE FIRE
6 May 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Chippewa National Forest	LAKE

Every fire recorded in Itasca County

Storms near this property

16 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Inger, the town this property stands in, in 16 storm reports between 2008 and 2024: 10 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail. 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 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Inger	$6,000	Winds were estimated at 60 mph, which blew down trees. The hail and winds occurred at the Lake Winnibigoshish Resort and Campground.
June 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Inger	$1,500	Some small trees were blown down across a road near the east end of Lake Winnibigoshish.
August 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Inger	-	Six trees were down around Portage Lake with the largest being about 16 inches in diameter.
May 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Inger	-	Several pine trees approximately 12 to 14 inches in diameter were snapped near the trunk.
July 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Inger	-	Photos were received showing several large aspen trees that were downed by the storm.
June 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Inger	-	Multiple 15 inch diameter aspen trees were blown down along County Road 35 south of Oslund.
August 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Inger	-	A few 6 to 8 diameter trees were blown down.
August 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Inger	-	A tree fell down onto Minnesota State Highway 46, blocking the northbound lane.
July 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Inger	-	Trees were blown down near Ball Club Lake. Tree limbs came down around Inger.
July 2009	Hail	Inger	-	The hail fell on the northeastern side of Lake Winnibigoshish.
June 2024	Hail	Inger	-	no account filed
May 2023	Hail	Inger	-	no account filed
July 2021	Hail	Inger	-	no account filed
July 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Inger	-	no account filed
June 2010	Hail	Inger	-	no account filed
June 2008	Hail	Inger	-	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

1 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.

Photograph	Property	Distance	Listed
	Old Cut Foot Sioux Ranger Station	6.1 miles	1974

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 82004629 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
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.