Photograph of Camp Esquagama — Photograph by McGhiever, CC BY-SA 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

St. Louis County 4-H Club Camp

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.

From the record

“Louis County 4-H Club Camp, is a summer camp in Biwabik Township, Minnesota, United States. It was established on the east shore of Esquagama Lake in 1934 with the first place prize money from a contest to name the best county 4-H program in the nation.”
Wikipedia article Camp Esquagama, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 126 National Register listings published here for St. Louis County · listed in 1985 · category: Building.

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

The listing

Address. 100 Pine Lane, Gilbert, 55741
When was it listed? March 1985
Category. building
Township. Biwabik township
Architectural style. rustic architecture
National Register reference number. 85000456 - 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 St. Louis County 4-H Club Camp between 1992 and 2020, burning about 569 acres in total. None started naturally. 28 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	46
Arson/incendiarism	28
Equipment and vehicle use	24
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20
Railroad operations and maintenance	11
Recreation and ceremony	9
Other causes	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
6 September 1996	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
30 September 2012	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
25 September 1997	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.5 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
9 August 2008	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
12 August 2006	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
9 July 2001	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
9 July 1997	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
8 July 2008	Arson/incendiarism	5.0 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in St. Louis County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 64 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 64 workings within 5 miles of St. Louis County 4-H Club Camp: 53 past producers, 9 prospects, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Aluminum, Silica, Manganese, Water, Free, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Silica, Manganese, Aluminum, Silica, Phosphorus-Phosphates, 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
Bangor Mine	Iron, Silica, Manganese, Aluminum, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Water, Free	Producer	1910
Corsica Mine	Iron, Aluminum, Silica, Manganese, Water, Free, Phosphorus-Phosphates	Past Producer	1901
Jl-47 Reserve Jl-47	Iron, Manganese, Aluminum, Silica, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Water, Free	Prospect
Magnetic Taconite Mesabi Range 16w	Iron, Water, Free	Prospect	Surface
McKinley Mine	Iron, Silica	Producer	1907
Welton Mine	Iron, Silica, Manganese, Aluminum, Water, Free, Phosphorus-Phosphates	Prospect
Ajax Mine	Iron	Past Producer	1899
Ajax Mine	Iron	Past Producer
Bangor Mine	Iron	Past Producer	Hematite, Magnetite
Belgrade Mine	Iron	Past Producer	1908

Every working recorded in St. Louis County

Storms near this property

5 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Gilbert, the town this property stands in, in 5 storm reports between 1996 and 2017: 4 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
May 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Gilbert	-	A tree was blown down in Gilbert.
August 2017	Hail	Gilbert	-	no account filed
July 2005	Hail	Gilbert	-	no account filed
April 2004	Hail	Gilbert	-	no account filed
August 1996	Hail	Gilbert	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in St. Louis 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
	First National Bank of Gilbert	5.7 miles	2012

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 85000456 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
St. Louis County	All 126 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.