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Photograph of Lamar Community Center
Photograph by McGhiever, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Lamar Community Center

Built in 1905 (American Craftsman). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

From the record

“The Lamar Community Center is located at 1488 200th Street in St. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on 1 March 1982.”

Wikipedia article Lamar Community Center, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 13 National Register listings published here for Polk County · listed in 1982 · category: Building · built in 1905, American Craftsman.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · 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. NE of St. Croix Falls, St. Croix Falls, 54024
  • When was it listed? March 1982
  • Category. building
  • Town. St. Croix Falls town
  • When was it built? 1905
  • Architectural style. American Craftsman
  • National Register reference number. 82001860 - 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 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Lamar Community Center between 1997 and 2020, burning about 38 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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/undetermined3
Debris and open burning1

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
6 May 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined36 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 November 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 October 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2020187

Every fire recorded in Polk County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 23 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 23 workings within 5 miles of Lamar Community Center: 13 occurrences, 7 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Copper, 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Bryan Rock Products Inc Dresser JctStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Unnamed Prospect Near St Croix FaCopperOccurrence
Unnamed Prospect Near St Croix FaCopperOccurrence
Badger Lake Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Bear Lake Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Carl Forrest Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Centuria Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Centuria Gravel Pit #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Centuria Gravel Pit #2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Centuria PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Polk 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

5 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
St. Croix Falls Auditorium3.7 miles2007
Thomas Henry Thompson House3.7 miles1984
Cushing Land Agency Building3.7 miles2005
Polk County Courthouse6.0 miles1982
John Lindstrom Round Barn7.3 miles2016

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 82001860 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Polk CountyAll 13 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.