Williston, North Dakota

• Open map evidence
• Research guide
• Williams County

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 6 records

• Creaser Buildinglisted 2016
• Fort Buford State Historic Sitelisted 1975
• James Memorial Librarylisted 1979
• Old Armorylisted 1985
• Old US Post Officelisted 1979
• Williston High Schoollisted 2011

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

• 1953 USGS Williston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1957 USGS Williston quadrangle1:250000
• 1959 USGS Williston East quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1983 USGS Williston quadrangle1:100000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 57 fires within 5 miles of Williston between 2017 and 2020, burning about 113 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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.

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

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Avoca

Every fire recorded in Williams County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Williston: 3 producers, 2 past producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Williams County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Williston in 85 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 50 hail, 27 thunderstorm wind, 4 funnel cloud, 2 lightning. 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.

Every storm recorded in Williams County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1032815. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.