BlockBefore
Photograph of Evangelical Lutheran Trinity Church
Photograph by Lost Places on the Prairie, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Evangelisch Lutheraner Dreieinigkeit Gemeinde

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.

From the record

One of 3 National Register listings published here for Grant County · listed in 2009 · category: Building.

Sources: 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 object as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 63rd St., SW section 15 Township 135 Range 90, New Leipzig, 58562
  • When was it listed? September 2009
  • Category. building
  • Unorganized territory. West Grant
  • Architectural style. Gothic Revival
  • National Register reference number. 09000530 - 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

4 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Evangelisch Lutheraner Dreieinigkeit Gemeinde between 2012 and 2017, burning about 78 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 burning1
Arson/incendiarism1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
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
21 June 2016Natural1.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceFRIESZ FIRE
4 May 2012Debris and open burning45 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceZIMMERMAN PIT
21 April 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceISZLER FIRE
24 November 2017Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceKLEIN

Every fire recorded in Grant County

Storms near this property

41 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names New Leipzig, the town this property stands in, in 41 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 26 hail, 11 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 1 flash flood. 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
July 2010HailNew Leipzig$1,000,000This was the second wave of very large hail to hit New Leipzig during this episode. Homes throughout the city experienced broken windows, damaged siding, and damaged shingles. Vehicles sustained heavy damaged as well.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindNew Leipzig$500,000Large trees were blown down in the city of Carson. Structural damage also occurred to many local buildings in the city of Carson and surrounding farmsteads.
June 2011Tornado (EF2)New Leipzig$200,000A National Weather Service storm survey confirmed that an EF2 tornado on the Enhanced Fujita Scale touched down eight miles south-southwest of Elgin, then moved northeast before lifting 3 miles south-southeast of Elgin. No fewer than four farmsteads were damaged along the path of the tornado. The worst damage occurred six miles south-southwest of Elgin, where the tornado was nearly one half of a mile wide, damaging every building on a farmstead and completely destroying the smaller buildings. Damage also occurred to trees, vehicles, and power poles. The damage surveyed corresponded to EF2 on the Enhanced Fujita Scale. From that it was determined that wind speeds were on the order of around 120 miles per hour.||Farther north-northeast, three other farmsteads sustained tornado damage. Damage on the first two farmsteads north-northeast of the worst damage was consistent with an EF1 tornado. The farthest north farmstead had damage consistent with an EF0 tornado. ||There were no injuries or fatalities with this tornado.
July 2007Thunderstorm WindNew Leipzig$65,000Newspaper reports New Leipzig sustained damage from storm. Several large trees uprooted along with some damage to homes.
May 2010Thunderstorm WindNew Leipzig$60,000Straight line winds associated with a severe thunderstorm destroyed two outbuildings on a farm. The wind speed was estimated based on the damaged observed during a storm survey.
August 2017HailNew Leipzig$50,000Several law enforcement vehicles were damaged by the large hail.
June 2011Flash FloodNew Leipzig$50,000Very heavy rainfall contributed to flash flooding in and around New Leipzig. Streets quickly became flooded, and sewage backup was reported in basements.
July 2015HailNew Leipzig$50,000no account filed
August 2017HailNew Leipzig$20,000There was damage to vehicles and roofs.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindNew Leipzig$8,000A two foot in diameter tree was blown down and there was roof damage.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindNew Leipzig-A trained spotter estimated 60 mph thunderstorm wind gusts.
June 2013Heavy RainNew Leipzig-Heavy rain of two inches fell in one hour.
May 2010Tornado (EF1)New Leipzig-This tornado crossed into southwest Grant County from western Sioux County. See the tornado entry for Sioux County. The tornado hit no structures in Grant County, but did do damage in Sioux County. It was rated low end EF1 with estimated winds of 90 mph.
July 2010HailNew Leipzig-Specific damage estimates from the large hail were not available. This was the first wave of large hail for New Leipzig during this episode.
July 1995Thunderstorm WindNew Leipzig-Wind speed unknown. Two large grain bins knocked over and destroyed.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindNew Leipzig-no account filed
May 2025Thunderstorm WindNew Leipzig-no account filed
June 2025HailNew Leipzig-no account filed
June 2025HailNew Leipzig-no account filed
June 2025Thunderstorm WindNew Leipzig-no account filed
July 2025HailNew Leipzig-no account filed
August 2025Thunderstorm WindNew Leipzig-no account filed
June 2022HailNew Leipzig-no account filed
July 2019HailNew Leipzig-no account filed
July 2019HailNew Leipzig-no account filed
July 2019HailNew Leipzig-no account filed
July 2019HailNew Leipzig-no account filed
May 2018HailNew Leipzig-no account filed
July 2016HailNew Leipzig-no account filed
July 2016HailNew Leipzig-no account filed
July 2016HailNew Leipzig-no account filed
June 2013HailNew Leipzig-no account filed
May 2012HailNew Leipzig-no account filed
August 2011HailNew Leipzig-no account filed
July 2009HailNew Leipzig-no account filed
July 2007HailNew Leipzig-no account filed
July 2006HailNew Leipzig-no account filed
September 2005HailNew Leipzig-no account filed
July 2001Thunderstorm WindNew Leipzig-no account filed
July 2000HailNew Leipzig-no account filed
August 1998HailNew Leipzig-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Grant 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 PropertyDistance Listed
Hope Lutheran Church5.0 miles1992

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 09000530 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Grant CountyAll 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.
  • 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.