Bernard Bernhardson House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

From the record

One of 22 National Register listings published here for Clay County · listed in 1980 · 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.
Listed as. Bernhardson, Bernard, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. CR 59, Comstock, 56560
When was it listed? May 1980
Category. building
Also known as. Clay County MRA
Township. Holy Cross township
National Register reference number. 80002011 - 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

3 since 2020

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Bernard Bernhardson House in 2020, burning about 26 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/undetermined	3

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
19 June 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	North Dakota State Forest Service	I29
1 June 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	25 acres	North Dakota State Forest Service	HURLEY CONTROL BURN
5 November 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	North Dakota State Forest Service	INTERSTATE 29 / 54 MM FIRE

Every fire recorded in Clay County

Storms near this property

15 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Comstock, the town this property stands in, in 15 storm reports between 2001 and 2025: 8 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 funnel cloud, 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 2013	Flood	Comstock	$10,000	Overland flooding developed over portions of Holy Cross Township drained by Wolverton Creek. Four to eight inches of rainfall during the preceding evening collected in farm fields, ditches, and smaller streams through the early morning then steadily drained towards Wolverton Creek and the Red River. Wolverton Creek overtopped and partially washed out rural and township roads at several locations.
May 2011	Flash Flood	Comstock	$500	Two to three inches of heavy rain produced street flooding in the community of Comstock, in nearby farm fields, and across several sections of road in western Holy Cross township. Flooding conditions along adjacent portions of the Red River were also increased.
June 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Comstock	-	Downed tree.
May 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Comstock	-	Delayed report of tree damage from social media, time estimated from radar.
July 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Comstock	-	A few large branches were knocked down at a farmstead.
August 2018	Hail	Comstock	-	Steady nickel to quarter sized hail fell. Satellite imagery showed widespread wind and hail damage to cropland across central Holy Cross Township.
July 2017	Hail	Comstock	-	A hail patch was noted across highway 75. Some of the hail was still a bit larger than a quarter about 10 minutes after it had passed.
July 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Comstock	-	Large tree branches were blown down with power outages reported.
September 2002	Hail	Comstock	-	The large hail caused substantial damage in Comstock. Roofs, windows, and cars were damaged.
July 2015	Hail	Comstock	-	no account filed
August 2011	Funnel Cloud	Comstock	-	no account filed
May 2004	Hail	Comstock	-	no account filed
September 2002	Hail	Comstock	-	no account filed
June 2001	Hail	Comstock	-	no account filed
August 2001	Hail	Comstock	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Clay 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
	Comstock Public School	2.8 miles	1980

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 80002011 in Record Group 79.
Clay County	All 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.