BlockFrom the record
One of 4 National Register listings published here for Pennington County · listed in 1991 · category: Site.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Red River Trail: Goose Lake Swamp Section
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.
The listing
- Address. Off Co. Hwy. 10, S of Goose Lake Swamp, Polk Centre Twp., St. Hilaire, 56750
- When was it listed? February 1991
- Category. site
- Also known as. Minnesota Red River Trails MPS
- Township. Polk Centre township
- National Register reference number. 90002202 - 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 2002Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Red River Trail: Goose Lake Swamp Section between 2002 and 2019, burning about 1,613 acres in total. None 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 |
|---|---|
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2014 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 23 August 2019 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 317 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 14 August 2014 | Equipment and vehicle use | 5.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 24 July 2012 | Arson/incendiarism | 300 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 8 April 2002 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 250 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 11 April 2010 | Debris and open burning | 740 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
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 90002202 in Record Group 79. |
| Pennington 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.