Kabetogama Ranger Station District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.

From the record

“The Kabetogama Ranger Station District is a historic ranger station complex in Kabetogama, Minnesota, United States. It was built from 1933 to 1941 by the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) as an administrative center for Kabetogama State Forest, managed by the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources.”
Wikipedia article Kabetogama Ranger Station District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 126 National Register listings published here for St. Louis County · listed in 1993 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. SW shore of Kabetogama Lake, Voyageurs NP (VOYA), Ray, 56669
When was it listed? June 1993
Category. district
Township. Kabetogama township
Architectural style. National Park Service rustic
Architect. Civilian Conservation Corps
National Register reference number. 93000479 - 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

35 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 35 fires within 5 miles of Kabetogama Ranger Station District between 1992 and 2020, burning about 14 acres in total. 3 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
Recreation and ceremony	16
Debris and open burning	8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Natural	3
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Smoking	1
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
9 September 2003	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Voyageurs National Park	BONUS
5 September 2020	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Voyageurs National Park	BITTERSWEET
3 September 2007	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Voyageurs National Park	BITTERSWEET
16 September 2005	Natural	under an acre	Voyageurs National Park	EAGLEPERCH
9 August 1998	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Voyageurs National Park	NASHATA PT
4 August 1992	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Voyageurs National Park	BUDAH IS
3 August 2020	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Voyageurs National Park	HEADLIGHT ISLAND
4 July 2003	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Voyageurs National Park	NW CAMEL

Every fire recorded in St. Louis 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

1 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	Property	Distance	Listed
	Adolph Levin Cottage	8.0 miles	2011

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 93000479 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
St. Louis County	All 126 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.