Edward and Lisa Mattson House and Fish House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.

From the record

One of 14 National Register listings published here for Lake County · listed in 1990 · category: Building.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Mattson, Edward and Lisa, House and Fish House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. Off US 61, at Beaver Bay shore near Wieland Island, East Beaver Bay, 55601
When was it listed? August 1990
Category. building
Township. Beaver Bay township
National Register reference number. 90001152 - 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

21 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Edward and Lisa Mattson House and Fish House between 1992 and 2018, burning about 51 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 1 was 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	8
Railroad operations and maintenance	4
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Natural	2
Recreation and ceremony	2
Arson/incendiarism	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
2 August 2012	Natural	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
13 August 2007	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
12 August 2007	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
6 May 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
6 May 1992	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
28 May 2013	Railroad operations and maintenance	9.6 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
28 May 2013	Railroad operations and maintenance	3.3 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
21 May 2016	Natural	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Lake County

Mines and quarries near this property

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Edward and Lisa Mattson House and Fish House: 3 producers, 2 plants. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Iron, 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
Thompson Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
E.W. Davis Works	Iron	Producer
Northshore I Pellet Plant	Iron	Plant
Northshore Mining Ii Pellet Plant	Iron	Plant
Silver Bay Plant	Iron	Producer

Every working recorded in Lake County

Storms near this property

2 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names East Beaver Bay, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 2016 and 2025: 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
May 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	East Beaver Bay	-	Trees were reported down along and across Highway 61 between Ionas Beach and East Beaver Bay along with trees down in Silver Bay.
August 2016	Flash Flood	East Beaver Bay	-	Thunderstorms brought heavy rain to parts of the North Shore. There was flooding over Highway 61 between mile markers 53 and 54.

Every storm recorded in Lake 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

2 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
	Tettegouche Camp Historic District	5.6 miles	1989
	Split Rock Lighthouse	6.1 miles	1969

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 90001152 in Record Group 79.
Lake County	All 14 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.