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One of 13 National Register listings published here for Cook County · listed in 1985 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Clearwater Lodge
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Address. Off CR 66, Grand Marais, 55604
- When was it listed? December 1985
- Category. building
- Unorganized territory. East Cook
- National Register reference number. 85003032 - 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
31 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 31 fires within 5 miles of Clearwater Lodge between 1992 and 2020, burning about 4 acres in total. 18 started naturally. None was 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 18 |
| Debris and open burning | 5 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 5 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Superior National Forest | PARTRIDGE 2 |
| 7 September 1994 | Natural | under an acre | Superior National Forest | not named |
| 2 September 2007 | Natural | under an acre | Superior National Forest | E.B. |
| 2 September 2007 | Natural | under an acre | Superior National Forest | CLEARWATER LAKE |
| 16 September 2020 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Superior National Forest | HUNGRY JACK |
| 12 September 2006 | Natural | under an acre | Superior National Forest | BEARSKIN |
| 11 September 1998 | Natural | under an acre | Superior National Forest | ROSE LAKE |
| 10 September 1995 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Superior National Forest | ERICKSON'S |
Storms near this property
11 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Grand Marais, the town this property stands in, in 11 storm reports between 1996 and 2006: 6 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 2 lightning. The reports record 1 death and 1 injury. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 1996 | Lightning | Grand Marais | 1 killed, 1 hurt | no account filed |
| May 2006 | Hail | Grand Marais | - | The hail fell at Sea Gull Lake. |
| April 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Grand Marais | - | Numerous trees were blown down three miles north of the Gunflint Lodge. |
| June 2004 | Lightning | Grand Marais | - | A lightning strike caused a cabin to catch fire. |
| July 2003 | Hail | Grand Marais | - | The hail fell at Sea Gull Lake. |
| July 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Grand Marais | - | Numerous trees and power lines were blown down. The wind speed is estimated. |
| August 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Grand Marais | - | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Hail | Grand Marais | - | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Grand Marais | - | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Grand Marais | - | no account filed |
| August 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Grand Marais | - | 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 85003032 in Record Group 79. |
| Cook County | All 13 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.