Independence Congregational Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015.

From the record

“The Independence Congregational Church on Fort Berthold Indian Reservation, near Mandaree in Dunn County, North Dakota, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015.”
Wikipedia article Independence Congregational Church, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 3 National Register listings published here for Dunn County · listed in 2015 · 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, 1 site as contributing to the listing.
Address. BIA Rd. 13, Mandaree, 58757
When was it listed? July 2015
Category. building
Unorganized territory. Fort Berthold
National Register reference number. 15000422 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

30 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 30 fires within 5 miles of Independence Congregational Church between 1995 and 2020, burning about 771 acres in total. 11 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
Natural	11
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Fireworks	5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Debris and open burning	3
Recreation and ceremony	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
15 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Fort Berthold Agency	DINAH
1 September 2012	Natural	70 acres	Fort Berthold Agency	BONANZA
30 August 2015	Natural	1.0 acres	Fort Berthold Agency	QEP
12 August 2009	Natural	9.0 acres	Fort Berthold Agency	INDEPENDENCE
10 August 2008	Natural	3.0 acres	Fort Berthold Agency	BIRTHDAY BOY
1 August 2015	Natural	1.0 acres	Fort Berthold Agency	CACTUS
5 July 2014	Fireworks	1.0 acres	Fort Berthold Agency	POW WOW
4 July 2019	Fireworks	under an acre	Fort Berthold Agency	INDEPENDENCE

Every fire recorded in Dunn 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 15000422 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Dunn County	All 3 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.