Sons of Jacob Cemetery

Built in 1883. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2017.

From the record

“The Sons of Jacob Cemetery in rural Ramsey County, North Dakota was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2017. It was the cemetery of the Garske Colony, a farming community of Jewish immigrant homesteaders which was founded in 1883 and operated until about 1925.”
Wikipedia article Sons of Jacob Cemetery, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 15 National Register listings published here for Ramsey County · listed in 2017 · category: Site · built in 1883.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 site as contributing to the listing.
Address. 88th Ave. NE., 1/4 mi. N. of 67th St. NE., Garske, 58377
When was it listed? June 2017
Category. site
Township. Sullivan township
When was it built? 1883
National Register reference number. 100001035 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Storms near this property

14 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Garske, the town this property stands in, in 14 storm reports between 1994 and 2023: 9 hail, 5 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
May 2023	Hail	Garske	-	Public reports quarter sized hail 3 W Garske.
August 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Garske	-	Four large 20,000 bushel steel grain bins were partially caved in at a farmstead.
September 2016	Hail	Garske	-	Most of the hail was dime to nickel sized.
July 2016	Hail	Garske	-	The hail was mainly quarter to half dollar sized.
July 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Garske	-	Three inch diameter tree branches were blown down.
July 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Garske	-	A 5,000 bushel steel grain bin was blown down by the strong winds.
July 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Garske	-	Very strong winds occurred across central Sullivan Township, accompanied by pea sized hail and 0.40 inches of rain. Some area crops were flattened.
July 2011	Hail	Garske	-	An observer also measured 1.51 inches of rain.
July 2007	Hail	Garske	-	Nickel to quarter sized hail fell along with very heavy rain.
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Garske	-	The Garske elevator was heavily damaged. Trees and power lines were down all around.
May 2004	Hail	Garske	-	no account filed
May 1998	Hail	Garske	-	no account filed
May 1998	Hail	Garske	-	no account filed
August 1994	Hail	Garske	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Ramsey 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 record	The nomination case file for reference 100001035 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Ramsey County	All 15 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.
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.