Alkabo School

Built in 1934 (Mediterranean Revival architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010.

From the record

“Alkabo School, in Alkabo, North Dakota, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on December 7, 2010 with registration number 10000997. It is located at the north end of Main St. in Alkabo.”
Wikipedia article Alkabo School, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 5 National Register listings published here for Divide County · listed in 2010 · category: Building · built in 1934, Mediterranean Revival architecture.

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. North end of Main St, Divide, 58845
When was it listed? December 2010
Category. building
Also known as. Federal Relief Construction in North Dakota, 1931-1943, MPS
Township. Westby township
When was it built? 1934
Architectural style. Mediterranean Revival architecture, Renaissance Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 10000997 - 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

1 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Alkabo School in 2005, burning about 250 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
10 August 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	250 acres	North Dakota State Forest Service	not named

Every fire recorded in Divide County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Alkabo School: 1 unknown, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sodium, Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Joe Mayo & Sons Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
	North and Miller Layes	Sodium	Unknown

Every working recorded in Divide 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 10000997 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Divide County	All 5 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.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.