Midland Continental Railroad Depot

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.

From the record

“The Midland Continental Railroad Depot, is a historic railroad museum and historic home museum located at 401 Railway Street in Wimbledon, North Dakota. The building houses a museum on the history of the Midland Continental Railroad, as well as the life of American singer Peggy Lee, who lived in the depot from 1934 to 1937.”
Wikipedia article Midland Continental Railroad Depot (Wimbledon, North Dakota), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 14 National Register listings published here for Barnes County · listed in 2003 · category: Building.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 401 Railway St., Wimbledon, 58492
When was it listed? September 2003
Category. building
City. Wimbledon city
National Register reference number. 03000870 - 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 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Midland Continental Railroad Depot between 2016 and 2020, burning about 14 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

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 2017	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	North Dakota State Forest Service	201701
3 July 2016	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	North Dakota State Forest Service	KRABBENHOFT
19 April 2020	Debris and open burning	10 acres	North Dakota State Forest Service	MARTIN
20 October 2017	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	North Dakota State Forest Service	201703

Every fire recorded in Barnes County

Storms near this property

12 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wimbledon, the town this property stands in, in 12 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 7 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 heavy rain. 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
August 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Wimbledon	-	Measured on personal weather station.
June 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Wimbledon	-	Large, empty grain bins at an elevator complex were caved in and collapsed. Peak winds estimated to be 80 mph, with multiple long duration gusts.
June 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Wimbledon	-	One foot diameter trees were blown down.
July 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Wimbledon	-	Numerous 3 to 4 inch diameter tree branches were blown down around town.
July 2011	Heavy Rain	Wimbledon	-	An observer measured 2.80 inches of rain over the past 24 hours.
June 2007	Hail	Wimbledon	-	Very heavy rain accompanied the hail.
July 2020	Hail	Wimbledon	-	no account filed
May 2005	Hail	Wimbledon	-	no account filed
August 2004	Hail	Wimbledon	-	no account filed
August 2004	Hail	Wimbledon	-	no account filed
August 1997	Hail	Wimbledon	-	no account filed
August 1994	Hail	Wimbledon	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Barnes 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 03000870 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Barnes County	All 14 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.