Jay Cooke State Park CCC/WPA/Rustic Style Picnic Grounds

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.

From the record

One of 15 National Register listings published here for Carlton County · listed in 1992 · category: District.

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 2 buildingss, 1 object as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Cooke, Jay, State Park CCC/WPA/Rustic Style Picnic Grounds - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. Off MN 210 SE of Forbay Lake, Thomson Township, Carlton, 55718
When was it listed? June 1992
Category. district
Also known as. Minnesota State Park CCC/WPA/Rustic Style MPS
Township. Thomson township
Architectural style. National Park Service rustic
National Register reference number. 92000640 - 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

269 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 269 fires within 5 miles of Jay Cooke State Park CCC/WPA/Rustic Style Picnic Grounds between 1992 and 2020, burning about 215 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 26 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	77
Railroad operations and maintenance	74
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	32
Equipment and vehicle use	27
Arson/incendiarism	26
Smoking	13
Recreation and ceremony	9
Power generation/transmission/distribution	5
Fireworks	2
Natural	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Other causes	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
3 September 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
23 September 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
16 September 2007	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
15 September 2006	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
13 September 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
1 September 2005	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
8 August 2005	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
7 August 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Carlton County

Mines and quarries near this property

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Jay Cooke State Park CCC/WPA/Rustic Style Picnic Grounds: 7 producers, 1 occurrence. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Carlton County Clay Deposit	Clay	Occurrence
Zenith Dredge Co Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Cherrie Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Koski Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Scanlon Pit and Shop	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Thompson Twp Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Tompson Township Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Williams Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Carlton County

Storms near this property

13 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Carlton, the town this property stands in, in 13 storm reports between 1995 and 2022: 6 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 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 2012	Flood	Carlton	$3,000,000	Flooding of the St Louis River began at the Scanlon gage at 1:30 AM CST on June 20th when it reached a level of 10.50 feet. The St Louis River reached a record-breaking crest of 16.66 feet at 3 am CST on June 21. The St Louis River returned below its flood stage of 10.50 feet on June 28th at 10:00 AM CST. Businesses and a campground near the river were flooded.
June 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Carlton	-	Winds lofted a trampoline across the yard and over a pool.
June 2016	Hail	Carlton	-	There was half dollar sized hail covering the ground with many golf ball sized hail stones.
June 2012	Flash Flood	Carlton	-	The center of town was under 1.5 to 2 feet of water due to the flooding of the St. Louis River.
May 2012	Hail	Carlton	-	The hail covered the ground.
August 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Carlton	-	Numerous trees and power lines were blown down from southern Carlton County to Cloquet.
July 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Carlton	-	Many trees were blown down, including a large tree that blocked a highway.
May 2012	Hail	Carlton	-	no account filed
May 2012	Hail	Carlton	-	no account filed
May 2011	Hail	Carlton	-	no account filed
July 2006	Hail	Carlton	-	no account filed
May 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Carlton	-	no account filed
May 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Carlton	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Carlton 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
Jay Cooke State Park CCC/WPA/Rustic Style Service Yard	0.5 miles	1992
Jay Cooke State Park CCC/Rustic Style Historic District	0.9 miles	1992
Grand Portage of the St. Louis River	1.9 miles	1973
Henry C. Oldenburg House	3.1 miles	2006
Carlton County Courthouse	3.5 miles	1985
Cloquet High School	6.6 miles	2021

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 92000640 in Record Group 79.
Carlton County	All 15 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.