Stephen William Brown Stone House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.

From the record

“The Stephen William Brown Stone House near Montpelier, North Dakota, United States, is a stone house built by Stephen William Brown in 1889. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.”
Wikipedia article Stephen William Brown Stone House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 11 National Register listings published here for Stutsman County · listed in 2004 · category: Building.

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.
Listed as. Brown, Stephen William, Stone House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 4829 75 R Ave., SE, Montpelier, 58472
When was it listed? February 2004
Category. building
Township. Sharlow township
National Register reference number. 03001545 - 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

5 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Stephen William Brown Stone House between 2012 and 2015, burning about 67 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
Fireworks	1
Equipment and vehicle use	1

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
29 September 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	North Dakota State Forest Service	80412
29 July 2012	Fireworks	2.0 acres	North Dakota State Forest Service	100312
16 March 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8.0 acres	North Dakota State Forest Service	30212
3 October 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	North Dakota State Forest Service	304015
15 October 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	50 acres	North Dakota State Forest Service	180412

Every fire recorded in Stutsman County

Storms near this property

27 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Montpelier, the town this property stands in, in 27 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 14 hail, 12 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Montpelier	$100,000	Extensive tree damage occurred with many evergreen and deciduous trees blown down.
June 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Montpelier	$50,000	Numerous tree limbs were down in Montpelier, some up to four inches in diameter.
July 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Montpelier	$30,000	The strong straight line thunderstorm winds resulted in a tree uprooted, a grain bin tipper over, a small wooden building destroyed, and crop damage.
July 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Montpelier	-	Wind gusts to 60 mph were reported by a COOP Observer.
July 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Montpelier	-	No reports of damage accompanied the strong thunderstorm winds.
July 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Montpelier	-	Heavy rain accompanied the strong thunderstorm winds.
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Montpelier	-	70 mph winds and very heavy rain.
July 2005	Hail	Montpelier	-	Reported by a NWS cooperative observer.
July 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Montpelier	-	Reported by a NWS cooperative observer.
June 2003	Hail	Montpelier	-	Pea to golfball size hail accumulated up to a foot in places stripping paint off several buildings. Rainfall with the storm totaled 2.5 inches. The hail also caused 50 to 100 percent loss to 47,000 acres of cropland.
June 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Montpelier	-	Several trees 6-8 inches in diameter snapped and 12 foot evergreens bent over. Reported by a NWS cooperative observer.
July 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Montpelier	-	Cooperative observer reported tree's and numerous branches down.
July 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Montpelier	-	Reported by an cooperative observer.
August 1999	Hail	Montpelier	-	Window's broken at post office.
July 2022	Hail	Montpelier	-	no account filed
August 2011	Hail	Montpelier	-	no account filed
August 2011	Hail	Montpelier	-	no account filed
July 2008	Hail	Montpelier	-	no account filed
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Montpelier	-	no account filed
May 2004	Hail	Montpelier	-	no account filed
July 2003	Hail	Montpelier	-	no account filed
July 2003	Hail	Montpelier	-	no account filed
July 2003	Hail	Montpelier	-	no account filed
June 2001	Hail	Montpelier	-	no account filed
July 2001	Hail	Montpelier	-	no account filed
August 1999	Tornado (F0)	Montpelier	-	no account filed
August 1994	Hail	Montpelier	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Stutsman 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 03001545 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Stutsman County	All 11 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.