Photograph of Minnesota Correctional Facility - Stillwater — Photograph by McGhiever, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

State Prison Historic District

Built in 1914. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.

From the record

“The Minnesota Correction Facility - Stillwater (MCF-STW) is a close custody state prison for men in Bayport, Minnesota, United States. Built 1910-1914, it houses 1,600 inmates in seven different living areas.”
Wikipedia article Minnesota Correctional Facility - Stillwater, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 42 National Register listings published here for Washington County · listed in 1986 · category: District · built in 1914.

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

The listing

Address. 5500 Pickett Ave., Bayport, 55003
When was it listed? July 1986
Category. district
City. Bayport city
When was it built? 1914
National Register reference number. 86001574 - 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

8 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of State Prison Historic District between 2000 and 2020, burning about 29 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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
Recreation and ceremony	2
Debris and open burning	2
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
Arson/incendiarism	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
18 September 2000	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Saint Croix National Scenic River	HECKOFADAY
8 May 2017	Recreation and ceremony	6.5 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
6 May 2020	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	2020157
4 May 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	46
20 April 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	1900126
19 April 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	17 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
9 October 2020	Misuse of fire by a minor	1.0 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	20337
13 October 2000	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Washington County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 23 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 23 workings within 5 miles of State Prison Historic District: 11 occurrences, 7 producers, 5 past producers. 7 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
Bryan Smith Quarry and Mill	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Moelter Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Moelter Quarry and Mill	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Barton Pit No 766 and Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Carmichael Road Sand Deposit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence
Houlton Gravel Deposit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence
Houlton Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Lakeland Pit and Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
North Hudson Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
North Hudson Sand Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Washington County

Storms near this property

9 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bayport, the town this property stands in, in 9 storm reports between 2006 and 2022: 6 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 funnel cloud. 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
August 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Bayport	-	A few trees were blown down.
August 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Bayport	-	An 8 inch diameter tree was blown down near Bayport, Minnesota.
September 2006	Funnel Cloud	Bayport	-	Reported by trained spotter and fire department.
May 2022	Hail	Bayport	-	no account filed
May 2022	Hail	Bayport	-	no account filed
May 2022	Hail	Bayport	-	no account filed
June 2017	Hail	Bayport	-	no account filed
May 2017	Hail	Bayport	-	no account filed
August 2006	Hail	Bayport	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Washington 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
Moritz Bergstein Shoddy Mill and Warehouse	0.8 miles	2008
Log Cabin	1.0 miles	2007
Stillwater Overlook	1.1 miles	2007
Albert Lammers House	1.6 miles	1982
Nelson School	1.7 miles	1979
Washington County Courthouse	2.0 miles	1971

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 86001574 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Washington County	All 42 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.