BlockFrom the record
One of 10 National Register listings published here for Koochiching County · listed in 1983 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Francis White Homestead
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Listed as. White, Francis, Homestead - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
- Address. N of Littlefork off US 71, Littlefork, 56653
- When was it listed? January 1983
- Category. building
- Unorganized territory. Rainy Lake
- National Register reference number. 83000909 - 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
73 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 73 fires within 5 miles of Francis White Homestead between 1992 and 2020, burning about 174 acres in total. None started naturally. 12 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 | 37 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 12 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 10 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Other causes | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 September 2005 | Equipment and vehicle use | 3.2 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 26 September 1997 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 11 September 1997 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 26 August 1994 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 12 August 1998 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 10 August 1998 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 24 July 1998 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 20 July 2001 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Mines and quarries near this property
5 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Francis White Homestead: 5 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| County Pit No 2 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Happyland Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Happyland Pit No 2 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Happyland Pit and Mill | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Little Fork Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this property
3 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Littlefork, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 1996 and 1998: 3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1998 | Hail | Littlefork | - | no account filed |
| August 1998 | Hail | Littlefork | - | no account filed |
| October 1996 | Hail | Littlefork | - | 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 83000909 in Record Group 79. |
| 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.