William E. Metzger House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.

From the record

“Metzger House, also known as Thomas Tate House, is a Queen Anne-style residence in Portal, North Dakota, United States. Built in 1905, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.”
Wikipedia article William E. Metzger House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 4 National Register listings published here for Burke County · listed in 2007 · 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. Metzger, William E., House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 112 Makee St., Portal, 58772
When was it listed? August 2007
Category. building
City. Portal city
Architectural style. Queen Anne style architecture in the United States
National Register reference number. 07000841 - 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 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of William E. Metzger House between 2016 and 2020, burning about 82 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
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
Debris and open burning	1
Natural	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
1 September 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	North Dakota State Forest Service	GANS
29 July 2017	Natural	30 acres	North Dakota State Forest Service	LIGHTNING GRASS FIRE
17 July 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	30 acres	North Dakota State Forest Service	FIELD FIRE
2 June 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	15 acres	North Dakota State Forest Service	GRASS FIRE
20 May 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	6.0 acres	North Dakota State Forest Service	OIL TREATER GRASS FIRE
1 May 2017	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	North Dakota State Forest Service	BRUSH PILE BURN
7 March 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	North Dakota State Forest Service	TRUCK FIRE

Every fire recorded in Burke County

Storms near this property

16 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Portal, the town this property stands in, in 16 storm reports between 1994 and 2022: 10 hail, 5 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 2018	Hail	Portal	$500,000	There was extensive damage in Portal, including to a fire truck.
July 2009	Tornado (EF1)	Portal	$185,000	A tornado was reported west of Portal near the Canadian border where it blew out the windows of two vehicles and blew the vehicles into the ditch. The tornado continued east-southeast towards the southern side of the town of Portal, uprooting 12 inch in diameter trees, snapping several power poles, and destroying an old oak barn. The tornado then continued east of Portal, uprooting several more large trees, downing more power lines, and destroying a granary, before dissipating. The damage corresponded to low end EF1 on the Enhanced Fujita Tornado Scale. From that it was determined that wind speeds were around 90 mph. No injuries and no deaths were reported.
July 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Portal	-	Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated by a trained spotter.
July 2004	Tornado (F0)	Portal	-	The tornado was thin and ropelike. The tornado was observed on the ground in open country for 2 or 3 minutes before lifting and dissipated.
August 2002	Hail	Portal	-	Severe crop damage reported.
July 1998	Tornado (F0)	Portal	-	Tornado formed in Canada and moved south into the US. multiple funnels were reported.
July 1995	Tornado (F0)	Portal	-	Reported by North Dakota Highway Patrol.
July 2020	Hail	Portal	-	no account filed
July 2012	Hail	Portal	-	no account filed
July 2009	Hail	Portal	-	no account filed
June 2004	Hail	Portal	-	no account filed
July 2001	Hail	Portal	-	no account filed
August 1999	Hail	Portal	-	no account filed
June 1998	Tornado (F0)	Portal	-	no account filed
August 1994	Hail	Portal	-	no account filed
August 1994	Hail	Portal	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Burke 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

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.

Photograph	Property	Distance	Listed
	Portal State Bank	0.2 miles	1996

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 07000841 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Burke County	All 4 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.