Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.
From the record
“Gran Evangelical Lutheran Church is a historic church in Popple Township, Clearwater County, Minnesota. Gran Church in Clearwater County is situated near the junction of Clearwater County Road 45 and 20 outside Bagley, Minnesota.”
Wikipedia article Gran Evangelical Lutheran Church, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 2 National Register listings published here for Clearwater County · listed in 1988 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.88000593- 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
110 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 110 fires within 5 miles of Gran Evangelical Lutheran Church
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 545 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 22 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
62
Arson/incendiarism
22
Equipment and vehicle use
11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
7
Railroad operations and maintenance
3
Power generation/transmission/distribution
1
Misuse of fire by a minor
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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
2 workings within 5 miles of Gran Evangelical Lutheran Church: 2 producers.
All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Bagley, the town this property stands in, in 41 storm reports between 1996 and 2023: 20 hail, 18 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 tornado.
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.
Highway 92 south of Highway 2 was closed off due to debris jams and flooding near the Clearwater River Bridge, and for a short distance upriver along the Clearwater River and the confluence of the Walker Brook.
Numerous large pine, oak, and poplar trees and branches and power lines were blown down in the Bagley area. The worst damage was in southern Copley Township.
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.
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.
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