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Photograph of St. Paul's Lutheran Church
Photograph by Jon Roanhaus, CC BY-SA 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

St. Paul's Lutheran Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.

From the record

“Paul's Lutheran Church near Hazen, North Dakota, United States, was built in 1921. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.”

Wikipedia article St. Paul's Lutheran Church (Hazen, North Dakota), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 6 National Register listings published here for Mercer 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. 4474 1st NW, Hazen, 58545
  • When was it listed? June 2005
  • Category. building
  • Unorganized territory. East Mercer
  • Architectural style. Romanesque Revival architecture
  • National Register reference number. 05000625 - 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 St. Paul's Lutheran Church between 2012 and 2020, burning about 16 acres in total. 1 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/undetermined2
Natural1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Debris and open burning1

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

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
26 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceHWY 1806 MM141
30 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceHWY 200 MM 164
25 July 2015Natural1.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceCALVIN WITTMAYER
13 April 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest Service4445 1ST ST NW
8 February 2012Equipment and vehicle use10 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceELMER LAUF

Every fire recorded in Mercer County

Storms near this property

54 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hazen, the town this property stands in, in 54 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 25 hail, 25 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2023Thunderstorm WindHazen$150,000Multiple hopper-style grain bins were blown over, with another bin damage. A wooden structure was also damaged.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindHazen$100,000Numerous trees were down in Hazen.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindHazen$100,000A camper trailer was turned over on its side. House siding was torn off and road signs were flattened.
July 2008HailHazen$30,000A swath of quarter to golf ball size hail fell south to north across the city of Hazen. Some property damage was reported, but there were no specifics.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindHazen$20,000Tree damage occurred in the city of Hazen.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindHazen$10,000Large hail accompanied the strong winds. Trees were snapped and branches broken.
July 2005LightningHazen$5,000Home struck by lightning. Blew out the TV, VCR, and telephone. Plaster in the bathroom was knocked off the walls. An electircal outlet on the outside of the home had the cover on it blown off and thrown 15 feet. The plug outlet was no longer usable.
May 2023HailHazen-NWS had no reports of damage.
July 2019Tornado (EF0)Hazen-The tornado touched down north of Hazen, and based on the very minor damage that occurred was rated EF-0.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindHazen-Pea size hail accompanied the strong winds.
June 2008HailHazen-No report of damage was received from this event.
June 2008HailHazen-Up to quarter size hail was reported across the Hazen area.
May 2007Funnel CloudHazen-Public reports from a distance indicated that this was a tornado, however, a Mercer County Sheriff's Deputy very near reported that this funnel cloud was short lived and did not touch the ground.
August 2005HailHazen-Also had nearly an inch of rain in 15 minutes prior to the hail.
August 2002Flash FloodHazen-County roads washed out and rutted from flood waters.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindHazen-no account filed
August 2023Thunderstorm WindHazen-no account filed
August 2023Thunderstorm WindHazen-no account filed
August 2023HailHazen-no account filed
August 2023Thunderstorm WindHazen-no account filed
May 2022HailHazen-no account filed
May 2022HailHazen-no account filed
June 2021Thunderstorm WindHazen-no account filed
August 2021HailHazen-no account filed
July 2020Thunderstorm WindHazen-no account filed
August 2019HailHazen-no account filed
July 2017HailHazen-no account filed
August 2016HailHazen-no account filed
July 2016Thunderstorm WindHazen-no account filed
July 2016Thunderstorm WindHazen-no account filed
July 2014HailHazen-no account filed
September 2014HailHazen-no account filed
July 2013Thunderstorm WindHazen-no account filed
July 2013Thunderstorm WindHazen-no account filed
June 2012HailHazen-no account filed
August 2012HailHazen-no account filed
August 2012Thunderstorm WindHazen-no account filed
July 2011HailHazen-no account filed
July 2011Thunderstorm WindHazen-no account filed
August 2011Thunderstorm WindHazen-no account filed
August 2011Thunderstorm WindHazen-no account filed
July 2010Thunderstorm WindHazen-no account filed
July 2009Thunderstorm WindHazen-no account filed
August 2006HailHazen-no account filed
June 2005HailHazen-no account filed
June 2005Thunderstorm WindHazen-no account filed
July 2005HailHazen-no account filed
July 2004Thunderstorm WindHazen-no account filed
June 2002HailHazen-no account filed
July 2002Thunderstorm WindHazen-no account filed
June 2000HailHazen-no account filed
July 1996HailHazen-no account filed
July 1994HailHazen-no account filed
July 1994HailHazen-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Mercer 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.

Listed places nearby

2 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Knife River Bridge near Stanton7.4 miles2001
Big Hidatsa Village Site7.7 miles1966

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 05000625 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Mercer CountyAll 6 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.