Our Savior's Scandinavian Lutheran Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.

From the record

“Our Savior's Scandinavian Lutheran Church, also known as Our Savior's Lutheran Church or Our Savior's Evangelical Lutheran Church, is located in Ward County, North Dakota. It is situated one mile north of State Route #50 and one quarter mile west of Ward County Highway #1 near Coulee, Mountrail County, North Dakota.”
Wikipedia article Our Savior's Scandinavian Lutheran Church, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 15 National Register listings published here for Ward County · listed in 2005 · 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, 1 site as contributing to the listing.
Address. 1 mi. N of NM 50 and 0.25 mi. W of Ward Cty Hwy 1, Coulee, 58746
When was it listed? February 2005
Category. building
Township. Spencer township
Architectural style. Romanesque Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 05000060 - 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

7 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Our Savior's Scandinavian Lutheran Church between 2012 and 2019, burning about 262 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
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Debris and open burning	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2

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
11 September 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	North Dakota State Forest Service	CHRISTEANSEN FIRE
22 August 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	250 acres	Des Lacs National Wildlife Refuge	COULEE FIRE
12 August 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	North Dakota State Forest Service	NELSON
11 August 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	North Dakota State Forest Service	GUSTAVSON FIRE
1 May 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	North Dakota State Forest Service	HIGHWAY 50
23 April 2015	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	North Dakota State Forest Service	CHRISTENSEN FIRE
16 April 2015	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	North Dakota State Forest Service	FORD FIRE

Every fire recorded in Ward 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 05000060 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Ward County	All 15 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.