BlockFrom the record
One of 22 National Register listings published here for Pine County · listed in 1990 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Willow River Rutabaga Warehouse and Processing Plant
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Address. Off Co. Hwy. 61, Willow River, 55795
- When was it listed? June 1990
- Category. building
- City. Willow River city
- National Register reference number. 90000935 - 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
191 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 191 fires within 5 miles of Willow River Rutabaga Warehouse and Processing Plant between 1993 and 2020, burning about 311 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 24 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 | 86 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 36 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 29 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 24 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 7 |
| Smoking | 7 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 2006 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 22 September 1998 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 21 September 1998 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 13 September 2011 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 13 September 2011 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 1 September 1998 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 31 August 1998 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 30 August 1999 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Storms near this property
15 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Willow River, the town this property stands in, in 15 storm reports between 1995 and 2023: 7 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2018 | Flash Flood | Willow River | - | Water was reported over County Highway 41 near Willow River by local law enforcement. |
| June 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Willow River | - | A 3 to 4 diameter tree was snapped off. |
| June 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Willow River | - | Thirty to 40 trees were blown down around town. Most were uprooted, but some were broken about 15 to 20 feet above the ground. |
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Willow River | - | A few trees were blown down in the Willow River Campground area. |
| August 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Willow River | - | Large pine trees, about 12 inches in diameter, were blown down. |
| May 2012 | Flash Flood | Willow River | - | Scotch Pine Road was washed out for 1000 yards at Highway 41. |
| August 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Willow River | - | Trees were blown down from Willow River to Sturgeon Lake. Wind speed is estimated. |
| July 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Willow River | - | Strong thunderstorm winds blew down many large trees and power lines across Carlton and Pine Counties. Two trees fell on a mobile home in Moose Lake. |
| July 2023 | Hail | Willow River | - | no account filed |
| July 2023 | Hail | Willow River | - | no account filed |
| July 2023 | Hail | Willow River | - | no account filed |
| June 2018 | Hail | Willow River | - | no account filed |
| August 2014 | Hail | Willow River | - | no account filed |
| May 2010 | Hail | Willow River | - | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Willow River | - | 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
1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| John Doboszenski Farmstead | 3.4 miles | 1980 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 90000935 in Record Group 79. |
| Pine 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.
- 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.