Coghlan Castle

Built in 1906 (Richardsonian Romanesque). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.

From the record

“Coghlan Castle is a building in Rolette County, North Dakota, near St. Occupied by Maurice Coghlan and his family until 1948, it is the only castle in North Dakota.”
Wikipedia article Coghlan Castle, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 3 National Register listings published here for Rolette County · listed in 2008 · category: Building · built in 1906, Richardsonian Romanesque.

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.
Address. Lot 2, SW 1/4 of the NW 1/4 T163N R69W Section 19, St. John, 58367
When was it listed? July 2008
Category. building
Unorganized territory. East Rolette
When was it built? 1906
Architectural style. Richardsonian Romanesque
National Register reference number. 08000681 - 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

228 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 228 fires within 5 miles of Coghlan Castle between 1992 and 2020, burning about 915 acres in total. None started naturally. 39 were 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	104
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	63
Arson/incendiarism	39
Other causes	8
Misuse of fire by a minor	6
Recreation and ceremony	3
Fireworks	3
Smoking	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
6 September 2004	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Turtle Mountain Agency	SO LATE
4 September 2007	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Turtle Mountain Agency	BUTCH
30 September 2012	Arson/incendiarism	14 acres	Turtle Mountain Agency	BARN
30 September 1992	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Turtle Mountain Agency	not named
29 September 2012	Debris and open burning	1.7 acres	Turtle Mountain Agency	RUBBISH
28 September 2011	Other causes	under an acre	Turtle Mountain Agency	JOE JOE
26 September 1994	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Turtle Mountain Agency	not named
25 September 1995	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Turtle Mountain Agency	RUSSELL

Every fire recorded in Rolette 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
	U.S. Inspection Station-St. John, North Dakota	4.6 miles	2014

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 08000681 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Rolette County	All 3 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.