Forest River State Bank

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2019.

From the record

“The Forest River State Bank, at 110 Front Street in Forest River, Walsh County, North Dakota, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2019.”
Wikipedia article Forest River State Bank, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 15 National Register listings published here for Walsh County · listed in 2019 · category: Building.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Still standing. The Park Service records this property as extant.
Address. 110 Front St., Forest River, 58233
When was it listed? December 2019
Category. building
City. Forest River city
National Register reference number. 100004715 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

4 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Forest River State Bank between 2018 and 2019, burning about 4 acres in total. None 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
Debris and open burning	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2

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
23 August 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	North Dakota State Forest Service	20189
7 June 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	North Dakota State Forest Service	201910
3 May 2018	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	North Dakota State Forest Service	BURN BANNED 1
17 May 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	North Dakota State Forest Service	BURN BAND 4

Every fire recorded in Walsh County

Storms near this property

10 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Forest River, the town this property stands in, in 10 storm reports between 2002 and 2025: 5 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado. 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
July 2025	Hail	Forest River	-	Public report of golf ball size hail relayed by broadcast media.
August 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Forest River	-	A few large tree branches were blown down in a farm shelterbelt.
July 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Forest River	-	Large trees were blown over in Forest River.
June 2010	Tornado (EF0)	Forest River	-	The tornado tracked east-southeastward intermittently for about 3 miles. Several large tree branches and limbs were blown down in shelterbelts along the track. Peak winds were estimated at 80 mph.
June 2009	Tornado (EF0)	Forest River	-	From near Forest River, a tornado tracked east-southeast to about 1.5 miles southwest of Ardoch. The tornado broke down several large tree limbs in shelterbelts and produced a fairly wide debris swirl to the west of Ardoch, as viewed by observers near the southwest edge of Ardoch. Peak winds were estimated at 80 mph.
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Forest River	-	An NDAWN sensor measured a 58 mph wind gust.
July 2017	Hail	Forest River	-	no account filed
June 2010	Hail	Forest River	-	no account filed
April 2005	Hail	Forest River	-	no account filed
August 2002	Hail	Forest River	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Walsh 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
	Minto School	7.0 miles	1992

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100004715 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Walsh 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.
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.