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Photograph of Hill Annex Mine State Park
Photograph by McGhiever, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Hill Annex Mine

Built in 1988 (bungalow). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.

From the record

“Hill-Annex Mine State Park is a former state park of Minnesota, United States, interpreting the open-pit mining heritage of the Mesabi Range. The park was located north of the city of Calumet, in Itasca County, Minnesota.”

Wikipedia article Hill-Annex Mine State Park, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 19 National Register listings published here for Itasca County · listed in 1986 · category: District · built in 1988, bungalow.

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

The listing

  • Address. Off US 169, Calumet, 55764
  • When was it listed? August 1986
  • Category. district
  • Township. Greenway township
  • When was it built? 1988
  • Architectural style. bungalow
  • National Register reference number. 86002126 - 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

138 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 138 fires within 5 miles of Hill Annex Mine between 1992 and 2020, burning about 931 acres in total. None started naturally. 100 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
Arson/incendiarism100
Debris and open burning24
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Equipment and vehicle use4
Recreation and ceremony1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
30 September 2012Arson/incendiarism3.8 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 July 2001Arson/incendiarism6.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 June 2002Arson/incendiarism11 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 June 2003Debris and open burning8.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 June 1992Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 May 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 May 2013Arson/incendiarism1.5 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 May 2008Arson/incendiarism2.8 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Every fire recorded in Itasca County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 87 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 87 workings within 5 miles of Hill Annex Mine: 60 past producers, 18 producers, 9 prospects. 18 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Water, Free, Aluminum, Manganese, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Silica, 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
ArcturusIron, SilicaProducer1917
Delaware #1 & #2Iron, Water, FreePast Producer1913
Harrison MineIron, Aluminum, Manganese, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Silica, Water, FreePast Producer1914
Hill Lake Pit & MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Magnetic Taconite Mesabi Range 23wIron, Water, FreeProspectSurface
Patrick-Ann MineIron, Aluminum, Manganese, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Silica, Water, FreePast Producer1917
Troumbly PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Allen Rossum Reserve H-8IronPast ProducerHematite, Magnetite
Allen Rossum Reserve H-8IronProspect
Arcturus MillIronProducer

Every working recorded in Itasca County

Storms near this property

9 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Calumet, the town this property stands in, in 9 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 4 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2025Thunderstorm WindCalumet$20,000Multiple trees were uprooted and snapped at the location with at least one on a home and another on a vehicle per photos.
June 2025Flash FloodCalumet-Report of water over the roadway at the intersection of US-169 and Gary Street with the flooding receding as of midnight.
June 2024HailCalumet-A windshield was broken by the hail.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindCalumet-A 2 foot diameter oak tree was blown down onto a trailer.
June 2010HailCalumet-The hail was covering the ground.
August 2003Thunderstorm WindCalumet-A few trees were blown down.
June 2003Thunderstorm WindCalumet-Eight inch diameter trees were blown down.
June 2024HailCalumet-no account filed
June 1998HailCalumet-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Itasca 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

2 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 PropertyDistance Listed
Oliver Boarding House1.9 miles1982
Bovey Village Hall7.5 miles1991

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 86002126 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Itasca CountyAll 19 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.