Crane Island Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.

From the record

“The Crane Island Historic District is a historic district of vacation properties on Crane Island in Lake Minnetonka, part of the city of Minnetrista, Minnesota, United States. It consists of a number of private residential summer cottages and some communal amenities.”
Wikipedia article Crane Island Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 192 National Register listings published here for Hennepin County · listed in 1991 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. Crane Island in Lake Minnetonka, Minnetrista, 55331
When was it listed? August 1991
Category. district
City. Minnetrista city
National Register reference number. 91001005 - 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

1 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Crane Island Historic District in 2000, burning about 7 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
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
12 October 2000	Arson/incendiarism	7.0 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Hennepin County

Storms near this property

9 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Minnetrista, the town this property stands in, in 9 storm reports between 1996 and 2019: 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 2 tornado. 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
August 2009	Tornado (EF1)	Minnetrista	$1,000,000	A damage survey determined that an EF1 tornado touched down in the northeast side of Minnetrista, or on the west side of the intersection of County Road 110, and 151. The tornado tracked east-northeast for approximately nine miles to the east side of County Road 101, or at Garland and 25th which is in the southwest portion of Plymouth. Numerous trees were snapped and dozens of other trees fell on homes and vehicles. Boats were tossed and roofs were partially removed from two homes and a business.
September 2019	Tornado (EF1)	Minnetrista	$250,000	This is the continuation of the Carver County tornado that moved into Hennepin County northeast of Timber Creek Golf Course. The storm survey determined an EF1 tornado occurred in Hennepin County where trees, crops, and a few machine sheds or outbuildings were damaged or blown down. \|\|The path length in Hennepin County was 2.5 miles, making the tornado total path length of 3.87 miles. The maximum width in Hennepin County was 210 yards, with a maximum wind speed of 90 mph. \|\|This tornado was also confirmed by the MPX radar in real time given the Tornado Debris Signature sampled by the radar.
July 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Minnetrista	$88,000	27 homes damaged by winds or fallng trees. Neighboring city of Independence also experienced scattered home damage due to down trees and power lines. Estimated windspeed.
August 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Minnetrista	$50,000	Several large trees and power lines fell down from near Minnetrista, to two miles west of Mound, then north to near the intersection of County Road 26 and 110, northeast of Minnetrista, Minnesota.
June 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Minnetrista	-	A 20 inch diameter tree was blown down.
June 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Minnetrista	-	Four inch tree limbs were blown down.
May 2011	Hail	Minnetrista	-	no account filed
September 2000	Hail	Minnetrista	-	no account filed
August 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Minnetrista	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Hennepin 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

6 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
Schmid Farmhouse Ruin	0.5 miles	2015
Peter Gideon Farmhouse	3.4 miles	1974
Thompson Summer House	4.0 miles	1998
MINNEHAHA (steamboat)	4.3 miles	2021
Excelsior Commercial Historic District	4.7 miles	2021
Minnetonka Beach Water Tower	4.7 miles	2019

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 91001005 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Hennepin County	All 192 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.