Finstad's Auto Marine Shop

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

From the record

“Finstad's Auto Marine Shop is a former boat repair shop in Ranier, Minnesota, United States. It was built in 1911 on the south shore of Rainy Lake, and preserves its original belt-driven machinery.”
Wikipedia article Finstad's Auto Marine Shop, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 10 National Register listings published here for Koochiching County · listed in 1983 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. 3475 Finstad Ln., Ranier, 56668
When was it listed? January 1983
Category. building
Unorganized territory. Rainy Lake
National Register reference number. 83000906 - 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

47 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 47 fires within 5 miles of Finstad's Auto Marine Shop between 1992 and 2019, burning about 96 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 5 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	21
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Railroad operations and maintenance	5
Arson/incendiarism	5
Recreation and ceremony	4
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Smoking	2
Natural	2

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
8 September 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
18 September 2012	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
1 September 2006	Recreation and ceremony	2.0 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
9 August 1992	Natural	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
6 August 2002	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
5 August 1997	Recreation and ceremony	1.1 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
24 August 2008	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
20 August 2008	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Koochiching County

Mines and quarries near this property

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Finstad's Auto Marine Shop: 9 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Ranier Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Boise Cascade Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
County Pit No 1	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
International Falls Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Kolinski Pit and Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Oveson Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Peterson Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Ranier Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Ranier Pit and Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Koochiching County

Storms near this property

9 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ranier, the town this property stands in, in 9 storm reports between 1995 and 2022: 8 hail, 1 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
September 2007	Hail	Ranier	-	Quarter-sized hail.
April 2005	Hail	Ranier	-	The hail fell for 10 minutes.
August 1995	Hail	Ranier	-	Numerous reports of broken windshields and glass. Sheetmetal and fiberglass damage to light buildings.
May 2022	Hail	Ranier	-	no account filed
May 2006	Hail	Ranier	-	no account filed
April 2005	Hail	Ranier	-	no account filed
May 2005	Hail	Ranier	-	no account filed
June 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Ranier	-	no account filed
August 1996	Hail	Ranier	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Koochiching 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

4 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
Ranier Community Building	0.2 miles	2018
Koochiching County Courthouse	3.0 miles	1977
Alexander Baker School and E.W. Backus Junior High School	3.2 miles	2004
Ernest C. Oberholtzer Rainy Lake Islands Historic District	6.5 miles	2000

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 83000906 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Koochiching County	All 10 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.