Built in 1916 (Neoclassical architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.
From the record
“The 1916 Buffalo High School, also known as Buffalo-Tower City Senior High School, is a property in Buffalo, North Dakota that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP). It is located near the center of Buffalo, near the Old Stone Church which is also NRHP-listed.”
Wikipedia article 1916 Buffalo High School, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 38 National Register listings published here for Cass County · listed in 2001 · category: Building · built in 1916, Neoclassical architecture.
National Register reference number.01000501- 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
8 since 2016
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 8 fires within 5 miles of 1916 Buffalo High School
between 2016 and 2020, burning about 4 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
Debris and open burning
4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
2
Recreation and ceremony
1
Railroad operations and maintenance
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Buffalo, the town this property stands in, in 35 storm reports between 1997 and 2023: 17 thunderstorm wind, 15 hail, 2 tornado, 1 flash flood.
The reports record 1 injury. 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.
A semi truck was blown over by the wind near the Buffalo exit on Interstate 94. The damaged truck blocked part of the westbound lane for around 30 minutes. The truck driver suffered minor injuries.
Two 5000 bushel steel grain bins were caved in by the winds and several trees were knocked down. The doors were blown off a machine shed. Extensive crop damage occurred across Buffalo Township.
Major crop damage occurred in Cornell and Ayr Townships due to downburst winds and hail. Tree damage was also reported. A ND RWIS mesonet site at mile point 10 on highway 38 reported a 57 mph wind gust at 609 pm CST.
The wind destroyed a historic barn near Interstate 94 at the Buffalo exit, the site of the 1964 National Plowing Contest. It was a campaign stop for Hubert H. Humphrey and Barry Goldwater. 100,000 people attended the event.
This tornado tracked across central Hill Township, mainly over open fields. It kicked up a considerable amount of dust across the southern flank of the storm, as indicated by spotter videos. Some large branches were broken down in shelterbelts. Peak winds were estimated at 80 mph.
Three large 60,000 bushel steel grain bins were torn off their concrete pads. Dryers and other equipment at the grain company were knocked over. Flying metal cut a nearby powerline. Numerous trees in the town were also uprooted.
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.
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.
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