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One of 22 National Register listings published here for Clay County · listed in 1989 · category: District.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Buffalo River State Park WPA/Rustic Style Historic Resources
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.
The listing
- Address. Off US 10, E of Glyndon, Glyndon, 56547
- When was it listed? October 1989
- Category. district
- Also known as. Minnesota State Park CCC/WPA/Rustic Style MPS
- Township. Riverton township
- Architectural style. National Park Service rustic
- National Register reference number. 89001671 - 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
6 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Buffalo River State Park WPA/Rustic Style Historic Resources between 1996 and 2016, burning about 2,512 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 |
|---|---|
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| 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 1996 | Arson/incendiarism | 1,155 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 18 May 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 170 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 30 April 2016 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 15 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 14 March 2015 | Arson/incendiarism | 50 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 7 October 2010 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 720 acres | Detroit Lakes Wetland Management District | BUFFALO RIVER |
| 7 October 2010 | Equipment and vehicle use | 402 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 17 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 17 workings within 5 miles of Buffalo River State Park WPA/Rustic Style Historic Resources: 16 producers, 1 unknown. 16 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Becket and Leach Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Bouton Pit No 1 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Bouton Pit No 2 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Clay County Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Clay County Pit No 2 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Ikel Pit and Mill | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Kost Bros Pit No 1 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Kost Pit No 5 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Kost Pit No. 2 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Layton Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this property
14 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Glyndon, the town this property stands in, in 14 storm reports between 2000 and 2022: 8 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 2 tornado, 1 flash flood. 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 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Glyndon | $1,000 | Four inch diameter tree branches were blown off trees at the Buffalo River State Park. |
| June 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Glyndon | - | Peak wind was measured at an NDAWN station at 3 meters. |
| July 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Glyndon | - | Roofing was torn off a trailer home. |
| June 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Glyndon | - | Trees were uprooted, causing sporadic power outages. |
| June 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Glyndon | - | A semi truck and trailer were blown off highway 10. |
| July 2018 | Hail | Glyndon | - | Dime to quarter sized hail fell. |
| May 2016 | Tornado (EF0) | Glyndon | - | A brief touchdown was noted in a photo and report in an open field near the Buffalo River. Peak winds were estimated at 70 mph. |
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Glyndon | - | Large branches were blown down. |
| June 2009 | Hail | Glyndon | - | The visibility also dropped to around 300 feet in heavy rain. |
| July 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Glyndon | - | Shingles were torn off a roof and numerous branches were blown down. |
| July 2004 | Tornado (F0) | Glyndon | - | A tornado briefly tracked through a wheat field. |
| June 2003 | Flash Flood | Glyndon | - | The MN Highway Patrol reported water over Highway 10. |
| August 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Glyndon | - | no account filed |
| September 2000 | Hail | Glyndon | - | 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.
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 89001671 in Record Group 79. |
| Clay County | All 22 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.