Schroeder Lumber Company Bunkhouse

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.

From the record

“The Schroeder Lumber Company Bunkhouse is the last remaining structure of a logging camp in Schroeder, Minnesota, United States, on the North Shore of Lake Superior. The Schroeder Lumber Company from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, established a camp there in 1895, on the Cross River.”
Wikipedia article Schroeder Lumber Company Bunkhouse, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 13 National Register listings published here for Cook County · listed in 1986 · category: Building.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. US 61, Schroeder, 55613
When was it listed? July 1986
Category. building
Township. Schroeder township
National Register reference number. 86002120 - 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

12 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Schroeder Lumber Company Bunkhouse between 1995 and 2018, burning about 7 acres in total. 1 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
Debris and open burning	3
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Arson/incendiarism	1
Recreation and ceremony	1
Natural	1
Smoking	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
6 July 2009	Smoking	under an acre	Superior National Forest	BLUEFIN PILE
15 June 1995	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
12 June 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Superior National Forest	7810
1 June 2002	Natural	5.0 acres	Superior National Forest	CROSS RIVER FIRE
9 May 1998	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
28 May 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Superior National Forest	TEMPERENCE RIVER
26 May 2003	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
23 May 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Superior National Forest	SPRINGDALE

Every fire recorded in Cook County

Storms near this property

2 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Schroeder, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 2014 and 2018: 1 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
June 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Schroeder	-	A large tree was blown down near the intersection of Highway 61 and Temperance Road.
July 2014	Hail	Schroeder	-	There was also ponding of water on Highway 61 in Tofte, MN.

Every storm recorded in Cook 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 86002120 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
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.