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One of 9 National Register listings published here for Lac qui Parle County · listed in 1991 · category: District.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Lac qui Parle State Park WPA/Rustic Style Historic District
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 3 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
- Address. Off Co. Hwy. 33 at SE end of Lac qui Parle, Lac qui Parle Township, Montevideo, 56265
- When was it listed? August 1991
- Category. district
- Also known as. Minnesota State Park CCC/WPA/Rustic Style MPS
- Township. Lac qui Parle township
- Architectural style. National Park Service rustic
- National Register reference number. 91001055 - 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
4 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Lac qui Parle State Park WPA/Rustic Style Historic District in 2000, burning about 18 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 July 2000 | Arson/incendiarism | 5.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 5 April 2000 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.5 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 2 March 2000 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 10 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 7 February 2000 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | 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 91001055 in Record Group 79. |
| Lac qui Parle County | All 9 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.