Photograph of Debs Consolidated School — Photograph by Tlkremer, CC BY-SA 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

District No. 132 School

Built in 1914 (Neoclassical architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.

From the record

“Debs Consolidated School, also called District School No. 132, is a historic rural schoolhouse in Debs, Beltrami County, Minnesota United States. The school held classes for both upper and lower grades until the 1940s.”
Wikipedia article Debs Consolidated School, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 11 National Register listings published here for Beltrami County · listed in 1988 · category: Building · built in 1914, Neoclassical architecture.

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. CR 500, Pinewood, 56676
When was it listed? October 1988
Category. building
Township. Roosevelt township
When was it built? 1914
Architectural style. Neoclassical architecture
National Register reference number. 88002083 - 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

36 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 36 fires within 5 miles of District No. 132 School between 1992 and 2016, burning about 170 acres in total. None started naturally. 6 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	23
Arson/incendiarism	6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Recreation and ceremony	1
Fireworks	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
23 July 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
16 July 2012	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
19 June 2006	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
17 June 2006	Debris and open burning	6.0 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
9 May 1992	Debris and open burning	1.5 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
4 May 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.5 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	TEDDY ROAD
4 May 1997	Debris and open burning	17 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
3 May 2003	Debris and open burning	1.5 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Beltrami County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of District No. 132 School: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Beltrami County Clay Deposit	Clay	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Beltrami County

Storms near this property

7 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pinewood, the town this property stands in, in 7 storm reports between 1998 and 2020: 5 hail, 1 tornado, 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
August 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Pinewood	-	A large tree was blown down.
August 2011	Hail	Pinewood	-	Lots of dime to nickel sized hail fell along with very heavy rain.
May 2001	Tornado (F0)	Pinewood	-	A brief touchdown was reported near the Beltrami and Clearwater county line.
June 2016	Hail	Pinewood	-	no account filed
August 2011	Hail	Pinewood	-	no account filed
June 2010	Hail	Pinewood	-	no account filed
May 1998	Hail	Pinewood	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Beltrami 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 88002083 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Beltrami County	All 11 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.