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Photograph of District No. 74 School
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District No. 74 School

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.

From the record

One of 22 National Register listings published here for Pine County · listed in 1992 · 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, 1 object as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. Co. Hwy. 22 N of Co. Hwy. 30, Danforth Township, Sandstone, 55072
  • When was it listed? June 1992
  • Category. building
  • Township. Danforth township
  • National Register reference number. 92000820 - 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

93 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 93 fires within 5 miles of District No. 74 School between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,171 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 29 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 burning42
Arson/incendiarism29
Equipment and vehicle use11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Natural1
Other causes1
Recreation and ceremony1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
5 September 2007Debris and open burning1.5 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 August 2005Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 August 2003Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 August 2005Debris and open burning4.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 August 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 July 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 June 1996Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 June 1997Arson/incendiarism1.5 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Every fire recorded in Pine County

Storms near this property

23 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sandstone, the town this property stands in, in 23 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 12 hail, 10 thunderstorm wind, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2022Thunderstorm WindSandstone-A photo was received showing numerous uprooted trees and several downed power lines.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindSandstone-Several 3 to 5 inch diameter trees were broken by the storm.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindSandstone-A ten inch diameter tree was broken by the storm.
August 2018Thunderstorm WindSandstone-A tree was knocked down by the wind.
July 2016Flash FloodSandstone-The Pine County Sheriff's Office reported Ash Avenue in Sandstone, MN, near the park, was under 4 to 5 feet of water.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindSandstone-Downed trees also brought down power lines.
July 2002Thunderstorm WindSandstone-A large tree was uprooted.
July 2002Thunderstorm WindSandstone-Trees were blown down.
September 2002HailSandstone-The hail lasted 30 minutes.
June 1997Thunderstorm WindSandstone-Strong thunderstorm winds blew down many trees and power lines from the Sandstone area south to near Pine City. Wind speed is estimated.
June 2024HailSandstone-no account filed
August 2023HailSandstone-no account filed
May 2022HailSandstone-no account filed
September 2010HailSandstone-no account filed
July 2007HailSandstone-no account filed
April 2004HailSandstone-no account filed
September 2000HailSandstone-no account filed
August 2000Thunderstorm WindSandstone-no account filed
August 2000HailSandstone-no account filed
August 1999HailSandstone-no account filed
May 1998Thunderstorm WindSandstone-no account filed
September 1997HailSandstone-no account filed
May 1996HailSandstone-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Pine 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

3 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Bethlehem Lutheran Church7.4 miles1980
Partridge Township Hall7.5 miles1980
Peter P. Kilstofte Farmstead7.9 miles1980

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 92000820 in Record Group 79.
Pine CountyAll 22 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.