Crystal Springs Fountain

Built in 1935. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010.

From the record

“The Crystal Springs Fountain is a historic roadside fountain along old U.S. Route 10 near Crystal Springs, North Dakota.”
Wikipedia article Crystal Springs Fountain, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 4 National Register listings published here for Kidder County · listed in 2010 · category: Object · built in 1935.

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 object as contributing to the listing.
Address. 1 mi NE from Crystal Springs on old US HWY 10, Crystal Springs, 58467
When was it listed? December 2010
Category. object
Also known as. Federal Relief Construction in North Dakota, 1931-1943, MPS
Township. Crystal Springs township
When was it built? 1935
National Register reference number. 10000999 - 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

2 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Crystal Springs Fountain between 1998 and 2000, burning about 70 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	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
6 April 1998	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	55 acres	Chase Lake Prairie Project Wetland Management District	CSPRINGS
20 April 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15 acres	Chase Lake Prairie Project Wetland Management District	CRYSTAL

Every fire recorded in Kidder 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 10000999 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Kidder County	All 4 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.