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One of 13 National Register listings published here for Douglas County · listed in 1992 · category: District.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Lake Carlos State Park WPA/Rustic Style Historic District
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.
The listing
- Address. Off MN 29 at NW end of Lake Carlos, Carlos, 56308
- When was it listed? July 1992
- Category. district
- Also known as. Minnesota State Park CCC/WPA/Rustic Style MPS
- Township. Carlos township
- Architectural style. National Park Service rustic
- National Register reference number. 89001654 - 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
17 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Lake Carlos State Park WPA/Rustic Style Historic District between 1992 and 2010, burning about 106 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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 | 12 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 May 1997 | Debris and open burning | 7.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 3 May 1997 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 2 May 2003 | Recreation and ceremony | 2.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 2 May 1992 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 18 May 2009 | Equipment and vehicle use | 3.1 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 11 May 1996 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 9 April 1999 | Debris and open burning | 12 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 29 April 1996 | Debris and open burning | 25 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Mines and quarries near this property
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Lake Carlos State Park WPA/Rustic Style Historic District: 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.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| R & R Mill | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Wonderlake Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this property
19 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Carlos, the town this property stands in, in 19 storm reports between 1996 and 2022: 11 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 1 funnel cloud, 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Carlos | $5,000 | Several trees were blown down in Carlos, with damage to a garage door. |
| July 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Carlos | - | A few large tree branches were blown down near Carlos. |
| June 2018 | Hail | Carlos | - | The local park ranger reported nickel size hail for approximately 3 minutes northwest of Carlos. |
| July 2017 | Tornado (EF0) | Carlos | - | Hundreds of trees were uprooted or broken near Lake Carlos. Some trees fell on power lines. No structural damage was noted or reported. |
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Carlos | - | Several large tree branches were blown down in Carlos. |
| August 2010 | Hail | Carlos | - | Winds were estimated around 45 mph, along with dime size hail and 1.18 inches of rainfall. |
| August 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Carlos | - | Trees down. |
| August 2007 | Hail | Carlos | - | Hail was reported at Lake Carlos State Park. |
| June 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Carlos | - | Few trees downed at Lake Carlos State Park. This was the first report from a complex of storms that would enter Todd and Morrison Counties, and which produced the tornado 4 ESE Long Prairie at 1355. The last report from this batch of storms was in Morrison County at 1430. |
| July 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Carlos | - | Tree down, slight damage to home. |
| June 2012 | Hail | Carlos | - | no account filed |
| July 2008 | Hail | Carlos | - | no account filed |
| August 2007 | Hail | Carlos | - | no account filed |
| August 2005 | Hail | Carlos | - | no account filed |
| June 2003 | Hail | Carlos | - | no account filed |
| August 2002 | Hail | Carlos | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Carlos | - | no account filed |
| October 1996 | Hail | Carlos | - | no account filed |
| July 1996 | Funnel Cloud | Carlos | - | no account filed |
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
6 within 8 milesOther 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lake Carlos State Park WPA/Rustic Style Group Camp | 0.2 miles | 1992 | |
| August Tonn Farmstead | 2.8 miles | 1985 | |
 | Great Northern Passenger Depot | 7.3 miles | 1985 |
 | Thomas F. Cowing House | 7.4 miles | 1985 |
 | U.S. Post Office-Alexandria | 7.7 miles | 1979 |
 | Alexandria Public Library | 7.7 miles | 1985 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 89001654 in Record Group 79. |
| Douglas 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.
- 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.