Lake Bronson State Park WPA/Rustic Style Historic Resources

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.

From the record

One of 4 National Register listings published here for Kittson County · listed in 1989 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. Off Co. Hwy. 28 E of Lake Bronson, Lake Bronson, 56734
When was it listed? October 1989
Category. district
Also known as. Minnesota State Park CCC/WPA/Rustic Style MPS
Township. Percy township
Architectural style. National Park Service rustic
National Register reference number. 89001659 - 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

83 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 83 fires within 5 miles of Lake Bronson State Park WPA/Rustic Style Historic Resources between 1993 and 2020, burning about 8,278 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 53 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/incendiarism	53
Debris and open burning	19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Natural	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
6 September 2006	Natural	10 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
22 September 1998	Debris and open burning	20 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
15 September 2012	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
12 September 2012	Debris and open burning	31 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
26 August 2020	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
22 August 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	23 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
2 August 2012	Arson/incendiarism	15 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
8 July 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Kittson County

Mines and quarries near this property

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Lake Bronson State Park WPA/Rustic Style Historic Resources: 4 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Benson Pit and Mill No. 2	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Eddy Jerome Pit & Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Lake Bronson Pit and Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Loeffler Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Kittson County

Storms near this property

9 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lake Bronson, the town this property stands in, in 9 storm reports between 1996 and 2020: 5 hail, 1 tornado, 1 flash flood, 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
June 2020	Funnel Cloud	Lake Bronson	-	The funnel cloud lasted for less than a minute.
June 2005	Flash Flood	Lake Bronson	-	Fields and farm access roads were flooded along lateral ditch number two near the Kittson/Roseau county line.
July 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Lake Bronson	-	Tree limbs were blown down.
August 2004	Tornado (F0)	Lake Bronson	-	Several brief touchdowns occurred over the east end of Lake Bronson.
May 2000	Hail	Lake Bronson	-	no account filed
May 2000	Hail	Lake Bronson	-	no account filed
August 2000	Hail	Lake Bronson	-	no account filed
June 1999	Hail	Lake Bronson	-	no account filed
July 1996	Hail	Lake Bronson	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Kittson 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 89001659 in Record Group 79.
Kittson County	All 4 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.