Civilian Conservation Corps Camp S-52

Built in 1933. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.

From the record

“Civilian Conservation Corps Camp S-52 is a former forestry camp of the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) in the unincorporated community of Cusson, Minnesota, United States. Four workshops built around 1933 survive from the time of the camp, which was one of the 25 original CCC camps established in Minnesota in the first year of the program.”
Wikipedia article Civilian Conservation Corps Camp S-52, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 126 National Register listings published here for St. Louis County · listed in 1989 · category: Building · built in 1933.

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

The listing

Address. Off US 53, Orr, 55771
When was it listed? March 1989
Category. building
Township. Leiding township
When was it built? 1933
National Register reference number. 89000158 - 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

40 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 40 fires within 5 miles of Civilian Conservation Corps Camp S-52 between 1992 and 2020, burning about 46 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 3 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	13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10
Railroad operations and maintenance	6
Recreation and ceremony	4
Arson/incendiarism	3
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Other causes	1
Smoking	1
Natural	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
24 September 1992	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
10 September 2006	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
27 August 2014	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
12 August 2005	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
7 July 2006	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
5 July 2007	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
30 July 2018	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
30 July 1995	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in St. Louis County

Storms near this property

18 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Orr, the town this property stands in, in 18 storm reports between 2000 and 2023: 8 thunderstorm wind, 7 hail, 1 lightning, 1 heavy rain. 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 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Orr	$2,000	A tree about 12 to 14 inches in diameter was blown over during the storm onto power poles and broke them.
May 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Orr	-	A swath of trees about 30 yards across was reported down through the woods along Highway 23. The observer reports it looks like someone took a huge mower to the forest.
July 2019	Tornado (EF0)	Orr	-	The supercell which produced the Gheen Hill tornado continued to \|move toward the east-northeast and a second mesocyclone developed \|a short time after the Gheen Hill tornado dissipated. The Carlson \|Lake tornado developed approximately 500 yards west of the Elbow \|River and six-tenths of a mile north of the western end of Ban \|Lake. The tornado tracked toward the northeast producing sporadic \|EF-0 damage to trees. The tornado turned due east approximately \|one mile west of Carlson Lake and intensified. The tornado produced\|a swath of EF-1 damage, which was a maximum of 300 yards wide and\|passed over Carlson Lake. Tree damage corresponding to high-end \|EF-1 wind speeds was noted over much of this area. The tornado \|turned toward the northeast after crossing Carlson Lake and \|crossed over Elbow Lake Forest Road before gradually weakening. \|The tornado dissipated shortly after crossing Shuster Road. We are\|very grateful for the help identifying this tornado's path \|provided by a private meteorologist in Grand Rapids, MN. High-\|resolution satellite imagery was critical to assessing the \|location, path, width, and peak intensity of this tornado.
June 2011	Heavy Rain	Orr	-	One hour rainfall of 1.24 inches was reported.
May 2006	Hail	Orr	-	The hail fell at Deer Lodge on Pelican Lake.
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Orr	-	Many large trees were blown down.
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Orr	-	Strong thunderstorm winds took down trees and phone lines in the Camp 5 Township, including the Elephant Lake and Ash River areas.
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Orr	-	Trees were blown down and power was lost.
July 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Orr	-	Several trees were blown down.
July 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Orr	-	A microburst demolished an attached garage, broke windows in a home, lifted up the roof, and downed many trees. The wind speed is estimated.
May 2022	Hail	Orr	-	no account filed
May 2022	Hail	Orr	-	no account filed
August 2015	Hail	Orr	-	no account filed
September 2012	Hail	Orr	-	no account filed
June 2007	Hail	Orr	-	no account filed
September 2004	Lightning	Orr	-	no account filed
August 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Orr	-	no account filed
July 2000	Hail	Orr	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in St. Louis 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

1 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	Property	Distance	Listed
	Orr Roadside Parking Area	2.4 miles	2002

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 89000158 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
St. Louis County	All 126 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.