Bovey Village Hall

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.

From the record

One of 19 National Register listings published here for Itasca County · listed in 1991 · 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 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 402 2nd St., Bovey, 55709
When was it listed? August 1991
Category. building
City. Bovey city
National Register reference number. 91001059 - 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

129 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 129 fires within 5 miles of Bovey Village Hall between 1992 and 2020, burning about 379 acres in total. None started naturally. 49 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
Arson/incendiarism	49
Debris and open burning	42
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	22
Smoking	8
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Recreation and ceremony	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
4 September 2003	Smoking	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
21 August 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
5 July 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
5 June 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
9 May 2013	Arson/incendiarism	1.5 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
8 May 2006	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
7 May 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
6 May 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Itasca County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 75 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 75 workings within 5 miles of Bovey Village Hall: 40 past producers, 22 producers, 11 prospects, 2 occurrences. 22 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Water, Free, Aluminum, Manganese, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Silica, Water, Free, Limestone, General. 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	Recorded
Arcturus	Iron, Silica	Producer	1917
Buckeye Mine	Iron, Aluminum, Manganese, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Water, Free, Silica	Past Producer	1943
Fargo Reserve H-5	Iron, Water, Free, Aluminum, Manganese, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Silica	Prospect
Holman-Cliffs Mine	Iron, Manganese, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Silica, Water, Free, Aluminum	Past Producer	1907
Bovey-Delaittre Reserve H-27	Iron, Aluminum, Manganese, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Silica, Water, Free	Prospect
Hill Lake Pit & Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Homestead 0-68 Reserve	Aluminum, Iron, Manganese, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Silica, Water, Free	Prospect
Itasca County Marl Beds No 1	Limestone, General	Occurrence
Itasca County Marl Beds No 2	Limestone, General	Occurrence
Plummer Pit and Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Itasca County

Storms near this property

19 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bovey, the town this property stands in, in 19 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 10 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 2 heavy rain, 1 flash flood. 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
June 2024	Flash Flood	Bovey	-	Flooding was reported on the north side of Coleraine.
June 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Bovey	-	An eight inch diameter pine tree was snapped about five feet above the ground level.
July 2021	Hail	Bovey	-	A few small branches were downed as well.
June 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Bovey	-	A tree fell onto a home and took down a power line.
July 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Bovey	-	Many trees and power lines were blown down.
July 2011	Heavy Rain	Bovey	-	Rainfall was measured at 2.15 inches.
July 2011	Heavy Rain	Bovey	-	Rainfall was measured at 2.15 inches.
July 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Bovey	-	Trees were blown down.
May 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Bovey	-	Large trees were broken and limbs were blown down.
June 2024	Hail	Bovey	-	no account filed
May 2022	Hail	Bovey	-	no account filed
June 2018	Hail	Bovey	-	no account filed
June 2016	Hail	Bovey	-	no account filed
July 2008	Hail	Bovey	-	no account filed
July 2003	Hail	Bovey	-	no account filed
June 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Bovey	-	no account filed
July 1999	Hail	Bovey	-	no account filed
June 1999	Hail	Bovey	-	no account filed
July 1995	Hail	Bovey	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Itasca 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
Coleraine City Hall	0.6 miles	1992
General Superintendent's House	0.7 miles	1982
Coleraine Carnegie Library	0.7 miles	1980
Canisteo District General Office Building	0.7 miles	1982
Coleraine Methodist Episcopal Church	0.8 miles	1982
Church of the Good Shepherd	0.9 miles	1980

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 91001059 in Record Group 79.
Itasca County	All 19 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.