Photograph of Wild River State Park — Photograph by McGhiever, CC BY-SA 2.5. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Point Douglas to Superior Military Road: Deer Creek Section

Built in 1973. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.

From the record

“Wild River State Park is a state park of Minnesota, United States, curving along 18 miles (29 km) of the St. This long, narrow park is shaped somewhat like a sideways 'S', with development largely concentrated in the lower third.”
Wikipedia article Wild River State Park, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 17 National Register listings published here for Chisago County · listed in 1991 · category: Structure · built in 1973.

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

The listing

Address. Off Co. Hwy. 16, St. Croix Wild River State Park, Amador Twp., Taylors Falls, 55084
When was it listed? February 1991
Category. structure
Also known as. Minnesota Military Roads MPS
Township. Amador township
When was it built? 1973
National Register reference number. 90002200 - 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

31 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 31 fires within 5 miles of Point Douglas to Superior Military Road: Deer Creek Section between 1992 and 2020, burning about 143 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 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	10
Arson/incendiarism	5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Recreation and ceremony	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Smoking	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
9 July 2006	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
9 July 1992	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Saint Croix National Scenic River	WILD MT
21 June 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
1 June 1992	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
7 May 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	12 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
31 May 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
3 May 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
20 May 2020	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	2066

Every fire recorded in Chisago County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Point Douglas to Superior Military Road: Deer Creek Section: 5 past producers, 4 occurrences, 1 prospect, 1 producer. 1 still produces. 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
Beede Lake Trail Sand Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Dwight Parmeter Sand Deposit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence
Edward G McKenzie Sand Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Emery Chouinard Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Eureka Center Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Legoo Lake Sand Deposit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence
Manitou Lake Gravel Deposit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence
Nevers Dam Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Nevers Dam Road Sand & Gravel Pits	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
St Croix River Gravel Deposit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Prospect

Every working recorded in Chisago County

Storms near this property

5 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Taylors Falls, the town this property stands in, in 5 storm reports between 2001 and 2023: 3 hail, 2 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 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Taylors Falls	-	Several dozen trees were uprooted or broken, with some landing on houses, sheds, and vehicles.
July 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Taylors Falls	-	Trees down
July 2023	Hail	Taylors Falls	-	no account filed
July 2023	Hail	Taylors Falls	-	no account filed
May 2001	Hail	Taylors Falls	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Chisago 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

4 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
John Daubney House	7.4 miles	1980
Angel's Hill Historic District	7.6 miles	1972
Munch-Roos House	7.8 miles	1970
Taylors Falls Public Library	7.8 miles	1970

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 90002200 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Chisago County	All 17 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.