Swedish Zion Lutheran Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013.

From the record

“Swedish Zion Lutheran Church in Bottineau County, North Dakota is a historic rural church that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in April 2013. The stone church is located near the town of Souris, just two miles from the border with Canada.”
Wikipedia article Swedish Zion Lutheran Church, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 5 National Register listings published here for Bottineau County · listed in 2013 · 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.
Address. 32 rods from NE. corner of SE. corner T164N, R77W, sec34., Souris, 58783
When was it listed? April 2013
Category. building
Township. Haram township
National Register reference number. 13000138 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

6 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Swedish Zion Lutheran Church between 2017 and 2020, burning about 58 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Fireworks	1
Arson/incendiarism	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
1 September 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	6.0 acres	North Dakota State Forest Service	2017-00002061
22 August 2018	Debris and open burning	15 acres	North Dakota State Forest Service	2018-0002048
2 July 2017	Fireworks	1.0 acres	North Dakota State Forest Service	2017-0002057
28 November 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	25 acres	North Dakota State Forest Service	2017-0002065
20 October 2017	Debris and open burning	10 acres	North Dakota State Forest Service	2017-0002064
18 October 2020	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	North Dakota State Forest Service	2020-0002059

Every fire recorded in Bottineau County

Storms near this property

15 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Souris, the town this property stands in, in 15 storm reports between 1997 and 2023: 12 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 heavy rain, 1 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
June 2005	Flash Flood	Souris	$625,000	no account filed
June 2007	Hail	Souris	-	No damage was reported.
June 2005	Hail	Souris	-	Heavy rainfall accompanied this storm.
June 2005	Heavy Rain	Souris	-	Storm total rainfall was estimated at 4.00 inches.
July 2005	Hail	Souris	-	Heavy rain reported with the storm.
June 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Souris	-	no account filed
May 2022	Hail	Souris	-	no account filed
May 2022	Hail	Souris	-	no account filed
May 2022	Hail	Souris	-	no account filed
June 2019	Hail	Souris	-	no account filed
June 2007	Hail	Souris	-	no account filed
June 2007	Hail	Souris	-	no account filed
July 2005	Hail	Souris	-	no account filed
July 2005	Hail	Souris	-	no account filed
July 1997	Hail	Souris	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Bottineau 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 13000138 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Bottineau 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.
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.