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Main, North Dakota School of Forestry, Old
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.
From the record
“Old Main, constructed in 1907-1908, is a historic building at Dakota College at Bottineau, a two-year college in Bottineau, North Dakota. The building is listed in the National Register of Historic Places.”
Wikipedia article Old Main (Dakota College at Bottineau), CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 5 National Register listings published here for Bottineau County · listed in 2006 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.06000532- 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
33 since 1997
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 33 fires within 5 miles of Main, North Dakota School of Forestry, Old
between 1997 and 2020, burning about 969 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 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
14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
8
Equipment and vehicle use
5
Smoking
3
Fireworks
1
Natural
1
Arson/incendiarism
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Bottineau, the town this property stands in, in 38 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 22 hail, 9 thunderstorm wind, 3 tornado, 2 heavy rain.
The reports record 2 injuries. 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.
The tornado touched down east-northeast of Carbury, and based on the damage that occurred was rated EF-1. This was the second of two tornadoes near this location within minutes of each other. Two properties were damaged by this second tornado. Damaged was a barn door blown off and the roof torn off, a machine shed damaged, a swing set blown away and large trees snapped and uprooted. A car port was also damaged. Tornado winds were estimated, based on the damage done, at around 95 mph.
Strong thunderstorm winds resulted in damage on the west side of Bottineau. Several grain bins were knocked over, one transmission tower was knocked down, and several trees sustained damage.
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
1 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.
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.
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