Fort Totten

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971.

From the record

One of 6 National Register listings published here for Benson County · listed in 1971 · category: Building.

Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 17 buildingss, 3 sitess, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. 417 Cavalry Circle, Fort Totten, 58335
When was it listed? December 1971
Category. building
Unorganized territory. Fort Totten
National Register reference number. 71000629 - 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

3,925 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3,925 fires within 5 miles of Fort Totten between 1992 and 2020, burning about 19,445 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 3658 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	3658
Debris and open burning	159
Fireworks	43
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	39
Misuse of fire by a minor	10
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Natural	4
Smoking	2
Recreation and ceremony	2
Other causes	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
9 September 2018	Arson/incendiarism	1.5 acres	Fort Totten Agency	MUCK
9 September 2008	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Fort Totten Agency	249
9 September 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fort Totten Agency	MS1910
9 September 1993	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fort Totten Agency	not named
8 September 2014	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fort Totten Agency	FROD
8 September 2012	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fort Totten Agency	WILBERT
8 September 2010	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Fort Totten Agency	131
7 September 2018	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fort Totten Agency	BIRTHDAY HAZARD

Every fire recorded in Benson County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Fort Totten: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: 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
	Cavanaugh Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Benson 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 71000629 in Record Group 79.
Benson 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.
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.