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Photograph of Old Wishek City Hall
Photograph by Andrew Filer, CC BY-SA 2.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Wishek City Hall, Old

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

From the record

“The old Wishek City Hall was a historic building in Wishek, North Dakota. The one-story building was built in 1916 and demolished c. 2011.”

Wikipedia article Old Wishek City Hall, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 5 National Register listings published here for McIntosh County · category: Building.

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

The listing

  • Listing status. The Park Service records this property as Removed.
  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 3 objectss, 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 21 Centennial St., Wishek, 58495
  • Category. building
  • City. Wishek city
  • Architectural style. Mission Revival architecture
  • Architect. Frederick W. Keith
  • National Register reference number. 05001141 - 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

9 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Wishek City Hall, Old between 2005 and 2017, burning about 31 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
Debris and open burning2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Natural1

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
30 August 2016Equipment and vehicle use12 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceWYATT RATH
17 August 2005Natural2.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest Servicenot named
15 July 2016Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE EAST
17 June 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceHERMAN KAUK JR.
22 March 2017Power generation/transmission/distribution2.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServicePOWER LINE DOWN
17 March 2015Debris and open burning2.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceLYLE BETTENHAUSEN
27 February 2016Debris and open burning2.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceRUDOLF BIN SITE
10 November 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceMARTELS

Every fire recorded in McIntosh County

Storms near this property

59 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wishek, the town this property stands in, in 59 storm reports between 1993 and 2026: 30 thunderstorm wind, 26 hail, 2 flood, 1 funnel cloud. 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 1993HailWishek$500,000no account filed
March 2009FloodWishek$94,000Significant overland flooding damaged county and township roads. One home was flooded. Flooding continued into April.
July 2013Thunderstorm WindWishek$45,000The severe thunderstorm winds blew two empty grain bins into a house causing damage, and destroyed a small wooden building.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindWishek$35,000The strong winds blew down several trees and blew the roof off of a large building.
April 2009FloodWishek$33,000A second round of overland flooding due to snowmelt resulted in additional damages to several county and local roads.
August 2006HailWishek$30,000Many windows were broken in town.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindWishek$25,000Strong thunderstorm winds resulted in several large trees and numerous branches blown down in Wishek.
July 2004Thunderstorm WindWishek$25,000no account filed
May 2012HailWishek$10,000The hail resulted in damage to vehicles.
August 1996Thunderstorm WindWishek$5,000no account filed
August 1996Thunderstorm WindWishek$5,000no account filed
June 2021Thunderstorm WindWishek$3,000A power pole was snapped.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindWishek$2,000Three to five inch tree limbs were blown down.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindWishek$2,000A large tree blew down.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindWishek-Strong winds were reported.
June 2005HailWishek-Reported by a NWS cooperative observer.
July 2003HailWishek-The hail was accompanied by 60 mph (52 knots) wind gust breaking out a window in a home.
August 2002Thunderstorm WindWishek-Large tree branches down.
June 2001Thunderstorm WindWishek-Report of a roof blown off a farm shed.
June 2001Thunderstorm WindWishek-Tree's and power lines reported down.
June 2001Thunderstorm WindWishek-Several large tree's uprooted and a street light pole snapped off in the city.
July 2001Thunderstorm WindWishek-Roof damage to commercial building and semi truck blown over. Playground equipment scattered.
May 1995Thunderstorm WindWishek-,,,,,,,,Hail (0.75) Strong thunderstorm winds tore the doors off a barn and blew a 1000 gallon water tank one and one-half miles away.
August 1995Thunderstorm WindWishek-The strong thunderstorm winds tipped over a grain truck estimated to weigh about 8,000 lbs.
April 2026Thunderstorm WindWishek-no account filed
June 2025Thunderstorm WindWishek-no account filed
June 2025Thunderstorm WindWishek-no account filed
June 2025Thunderstorm WindWishek-no account filed
May 2024HailWishek-no account filed
June 2022Thunderstorm WindWishek-no account filed
June 2022Thunderstorm WindWishek-no account filed
June 2022Thunderstorm WindWishek-no account filed
June 2022Thunderstorm WindWishek-no account filed
June 2021HailWishek-no account filed
June 2021HailWishek-no account filed
June 2021HailWishek-no account filed
July 2021Thunderstorm WindWishek-no account filed
May 2016Funnel CloudWishek-no account filed
June 2016Thunderstorm WindWishek-no account filed
August 2016HailWishek-no account filed
July 2013HailWishek-no account filed
May 2012HailWishek-no account filed
May 2012HailWishek-no account filed
May 2012HailWishek-no account filed
May 2012HailWishek-no account filed
July 2012Thunderstorm WindWishek-no account filed
April 2010HailWishek-no account filed
August 2006HailWishek-no account filed
June 2005HailWishek-no account filed
September 2005HailWishek-no account filed
July 2004HailWishek-no account filed
July 2003HailWishek-no account filed
July 2002Thunderstorm WindWishek-no account filed
August 2002HailWishek-no account filed
June 2001HailWishek-no account filed
July 2001HailWishek-no account filed
June 1999HailWishek-no account filed
July 1999HailWishek-no account filed
July 1995Thunderstorm WindWishek-no account filed

Every storm recorded in McIntosh 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 recordThe nomination case file for reference 05001141 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
McIntosh CountyAll 5 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.