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One of 6 National Register listings published here for Nelson County · listed in 2025 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Petersburg Auditorium
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2025.
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. 116 5th Street, Petersburg, 58272
- When was it listed? September 2025
- Category. building
- Also known as. Federal Relief Construction in North Dakota, 1931-1943, MPS
- City. Petersburg city
- National Register reference number. 100012309 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
9 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Petersburg Auditorium between 1992 and 2005, burning about 66 acres in total. None started naturally. 8 were 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 |
|---|---|
| Arson/incendiarism | 8 |
| Debris and open burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 June 2004 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Fort Totten Agency | TH1710 |
| 6 May 2005 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Fort Totten Agency | 333 |
| 5 May 1998 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Fort Totten Agency | 303714 |
| 3 April 1992 | Arson/incendiarism | 60 acres | Fort Totten Agency | not named |
| 23 April 1996 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Fort Totten Agency | MS1616 |
| 21 April 1998 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Fort Totten Agency | LD2304 |
| 19 April 1993 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Fort Totten Agency | not named |
| 13 October 1995 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Fort Totten Agency | TH1716 |
Storms near this property
34 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Petersburg, the town this property stands in, in 34 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 20 hail, 10 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 heavy rain. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2000 | Flash Flood | Petersburg | $2,000,000 | After 10 to 15 inches of rain fell across portions of east central Nelson county, flash flooding occurred. Part of the road shoulder washed out at the US Highway 2 overpass near Petersburg, reducing the traffic to one lane. Several farmsteads were surrounded by water. 45 percent of the cropland in Nelson county was destroyed. |
| June 2025 | Hail | Petersburg | - | Largest hail was quarter size. |
| June 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Petersburg | - | A semi truck-trailer combination was flipped on Highway 2. Time estimated based on radar and nearby wind sensor reports. |
| July 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Petersburg | - | A large tree was blown down at a farmstead. Report and photo was posted via social media. Time estimated based on radar and nearby wind sensor reports. |
| July 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Petersburg | - | Several 3 to 5 inch diameter branches were blown down. |
| June 2018 | Tornado (EF1) | Petersburg | - | A few snapped or uprooted poplar trees were noted in a shelterbelt north of U. S. Highway 2, west of mile point 239. Large branches were also broken down in various shelterbelts west of Niagara. Peak winds were estimated at 90 mph. |
| June 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Petersburg | - | A truck was blown off of U. S. Highway 2 and a large tree limb was blown down. |
| June 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Petersburg | - | Siding and panels were torn off a grain elevator. |
| July 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Petersburg | - | Numerous large three to five inch diameter tree branches were blown down in shelterbelts. Crops were flattened over a broad area. |
| August 2014 | Funnel Cloud | Petersburg | - | This funnel was one of several brief and weak cold-air or cold-core type funnels which formed throughout the late morning and afternoon hours. |
| August 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Petersburg | - | Strong winds flattened corn crops. |
| August 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Petersburg | - | Large branches were torn down and several houses lost shingles between the communities of Niagara and Petersburg. |
| August 2007 | Hail | Petersburg | - | The largest hail ranged in size from 1.75 to 2 inches. |
| June 2005 | Heavy Rain | Petersburg | - | Heavy rainfall contributed to a major fiber optic line cut between Lakota and Larimore. Telephone service to most of northeast North Dakota was knocked out. |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Petersburg | - | 8 inch diameter tree limbs were broken. |
| July 2016 | Hail | Petersburg | - | no account filed |
| August 2007 | Hail | Petersburg | - | no account filed |
| July 2007 | Hail | Petersburg | - | no account filed |
| August 2007 | Hail | Petersburg | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Hail | Petersburg | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Hail | Petersburg | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Hail | Petersburg | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Hail | Petersburg | - | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Hail | Petersburg | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Petersburg | - | no account filed |
| July 2001 | Hail | Petersburg | - | no account filed |
| June 2000 | Hail | Petersburg | - | no account filed |
| June 2000 | Hail | Petersburg | - | no account filed |
| June 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Petersburg | - | no account filed |
| June 2000 | Hail | Petersburg | - | no account filed |
| June 2000 | Hail | Petersburg | - | no account filed |
| July 2000 | Hail | Petersburg | - | no account filed |
| September 1996 | Hail | Petersburg | - | no account filed |
| August 1996 | Hail | Petersburg | - | no account filed |
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 100012309 in Record Group 79. |
| Nelson County | All 6 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.