Park Place Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.

From the record

One of 15 National Register listings published here for Carlton County · listed in 1985 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. 1, 512, 520, and 528 Park Pl., Cloquet, 55720
When was it listed? August 1985
Category. district
City. Cloquet city
National Register reference number. 85001924 - 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

306 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 306 fires within 5 miles of Park Place Historic District between 1992 and 2020, burning about 178 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 58 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	99
Arson/incendiarism	58
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	41
Equipment and vehicle use	24
Recreation and ceremony	21
Misuse of fire by a minor	20
Smoking	13
Railroad operations and maintenance	13
Power generation/transmission/distribution	6
Natural	4
Fireworks	4
Other causes	3

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
7 September 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
3 September 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
2 September 1998	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
16 September 2007	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
15 September 2006	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
10 September 2005	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
9 August 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
8 August 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Carlton County

Mines and quarries near this property

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Park Place Historic District: 7 producers, 1 occurrence. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Silica. 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
Carlton County Sand Bed	Silica	Occurrence
Bush Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Carter Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
G N Lindsay Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Koski Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Scanlon Pit and Shop	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Tompson Township Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Williams Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Carlton County

Storms near this property

49 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cloquet, the town this property stands in, in 49 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 29 hail, 15 thunderstorm wind, 2 lightning, 2 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 2002	Lightning	Cloquet	$500,000	no account filed
August 2007	Lightning	Cloquet	$120,000	A lightning bolt caused considerable roof and structural damage to the Queen of Peace Catholic Church. Damage to the electrical, phone, and public address system was also noted.
July 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Cloquet	$4,000	Power lines and trees were blown down in and around Cloquet. Many small tree limbs were also blown down.
July 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Cloquet	$2,000	Trees were blown down in and around Cloquet, including a 40-foot pine tree.
July 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Cloquet	$2,000	Large trees were blown down near Big Lake.
July 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Cloquet	$2,000	The top of a spruce tree was snapped off, four large basswood trees were blown down, and a couple of tent poles were broken. The damage occurred near Big Lake.
July 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Cloquet	$500	A 12-inch diameter tree was blown down across a road.
June 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Cloquet	-	A large, healthy tee was down on the north side of Cloquet onto a fence causing damage to the fence.
June 2019	Flash Flood	Cloquet	-	The southbound lanes of Minnesota Highway 33 1.5 miles north of Cloquet were beginning to flood and traffic was having to slow to navigate the water on the road.
September 2018	Flash Flood	Cloquet	-	Storm sewer manhole covers were flipped over. Standing water was also reported in town.
September 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Cloquet	-	A 12 to 18 inch diameter tree branch was knocked down partially blocking Grant Avenue.
July 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Cloquet	-	There were numerous trees blown down across Cloquet, which was reported from a retired NWS employee.
July 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Cloquet	-	Trees were blown down and power outages were reported near the Black Bear Casino.
July 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Cloquet	-	The severe thunderstorm winds occurred at the intersection of Interstate 35 and Highway 210.
August 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Cloquet	-	Numerous trees were blown down.
July 2003	Hail	Cloquet	-	The hail was one inch in diameter 3 miles west of Cloquet.
May 2022	Hail	Cloquet	-	no account filed
May 2022	Hail	Cloquet	-	no account filed
May 2022	Hail	Cloquet	-	no account filed
May 2022	Hail	Cloquet	-	no account filed
May 2022	Hail	Cloquet	-	no account filed
May 2022	Hail	Cloquet	-	no account filed
April 2021	Hail	Cloquet	-	no account filed
April 2021	Hail	Cloquet	-	no account filed
September 2021	Hail	Cloquet	-	no account filed
August 2018	Hail	Cloquet	-	no account filed
June 2018	Hail	Cloquet	-	no account filed
May 2017	Hail	Cloquet	-	no account filed
May 2017	Hail	Cloquet	-	no account filed
May 2012	Flood	Cloquet	-	no account filed
May 2012	Hail	Cloquet	-	no account filed
July 2010	Hail	Cloquet	-	no account filed
May 2009	Hail	Cloquet	-	no account filed
August 2008	Hail	Cloquet	-	no account filed
June 2007	Hail	Cloquet	-	no account filed
July 2006	Hail	Cloquet	-	no account filed
June 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Cloquet	-	no account filed
July 2003	Hail	Cloquet	-	no account filed
September 2002	Hail	Cloquet	-	no account filed
May 2001	Hail	Cloquet	-	no account filed
August 2001	Hail	Cloquet	-	no account filed
August 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Cloquet	-	no account filed
August 2000	Hail	Cloquet	-	no account filed
August 2000	Hail	Cloquet	-	no account filed
August 2000	Hail	Cloquet	-	no account filed
July 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Cloquet	-	no account filed
August 1997	Hail	Cloquet	-	no account filed
July 1997	Hail	Cloquet	-	no account filed
August 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Cloquet	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Carlton 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
Cloquet-Northern Office Building	0.2 miles	1985
Cloquet City Hall	0.2 miles	1985
Lindholm Oil Company Service Station	0.4 miles	1985
Northeastern Hotel	0.4 miles	1984
Shaw Memorial Library	0.5 miles	1985
Cloquet High School	0.5 miles	2021

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 85001924 in Record Group 79.
Carlton County	All 15 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.