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Photograph of Gingras Trading Post State Historic Site
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Gingras House and Trading Post

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.

From the record

“The Gingras Trading Post State Historic Site is a North Dakota State Historic Site near Walhalla, North Dakota. It features the trading post and home of the Metis legislator and fur trader Antoine Blanc Gingras (1821-1877).”

Wikipedia article Gingras Trading Post State Historic Site, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 12 National Register listings published here for Pembina County · listed in 1975 · category: Building.

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 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. NE of Walhalla off ND 32, Walhalla, 58282
  • When was it listed? May 1975
  • Category. building
  • Township. Walhalla township
  • National Register reference number. 75001305 - 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

17 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Gingras House and Trading Post between 2008 and 2020, burning about 489 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
Debris and open burning9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Fireworks2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
8 August 2019Misuse of fire by a minor4.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceBOB DEARINGER JUNKYARD FIRE
20 August 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceDITCH ON 108TH ST NE
7 July 2019Fireworks2.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceBIG A FIREWORKS II
5 July 2019Fireworks4.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceBIG A FIREWORK FIRE
24 July 2019Railroad operations and maintenance5.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceBNSF RAILROAD FIRE
29 June 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceGOLF COURSE GRASS FIRE
1 June 2017Debris and open burning6.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceCRP FIRE NORTHEAST OF TOWN
9 May 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined320 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServicePEMBINA

Every fire recorded in Pembina County

Storms near this property

35 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Walhalla, the town this property stands in, in 35 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 23 hail, 7 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 1 flash flood. The reports record 1 injury. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2005Thunderstorm WindWalhalla1 hurt, $2,000,000Widespread tree damage was reported in Walhalla. One tree fell on a tent in Walhalla, injuring one man. The other person in the tent was able to go for help. Widespread power outages occurred throughout the county. The Walhalla school building roof was heavily damaged. Flooding occurred in the school basement, due to the numerous holes in the roof. Emergency routes were blocked by fallen trees. Trees fell on cars, homes, garages, fences, and power lines.
April 2023FloodWalhalla$174,000Walhalla gage, on the Pembina River. Crested at 13.16 ft on April 28th at 02:30.||NOTE: Damages dollar amount is for the entire county. Not separated by specific river basin or damage type.
June 1996Thunderstorm WindWalhalla$10,000no account filed
July 2024HailWalhalla-Size estimated from picture.
June 2024Funnel CloudWalhalla-Pembina County Dispatch relayed a report of a funnel cloud 4 miles east of Walhalla.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindWalhalla-Received a public report of large, 3 to 5 inch tree branches broken around town.
September 2019HailWalhalla-This was a second round of large hail.
July 2016HailWalhalla-The hail fell at the highway 32 diner in Walhalla.
June 2015HailWalhalla-Quarter to half dollar sized hail fell.
July 2007HailWalhalla-One inch of rain fell in 20 minutes.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindWalhalla-A 77 mph wind gust was measured by an NDAWN wind sensor.
June 2005Tornado (F1)Walhalla-The tornado originated in Cavalier county 7 miles east of Vang. Numerous trees were damaged and several houses had shingles torn off in Walhalla. The peak winds were estimated to be about 90 mph.
July 2005Thunderstorm WindWalhalla-A dealership sign was blown down and a pole barn sustained roof and door damage.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindWalhalla-Numerous trees were blown down, some falling on homes and cars. Several fences were also blown down.
August 2002HailWalhalla-The ground was white with hail.
August 2002Flash FloodWalhalla-Water was flowing over county roads and cropland was flooded.
June 1999HailWalhalla-The hail fell for 30 minutes.
August 2021HailWalhalla-no account filed
August 2018HailWalhalla-no account filed
July 2014HailWalhalla-no account filed
July 2010HailWalhalla-no account filed
August 2006HailWalhalla-no account filed
August 2006HailWalhalla-no account filed
May 2004HailWalhalla-no account filed
August 2002HailWalhalla-no account filed
August 2002HailWalhalla-no account filed
August 2002HailWalhalla-no account filed
June 1999Tornado (F0)Walhalla-no account filed
June 1999HailWalhalla-no account filed
May 1998HailWalhalla-no account filed
August 1998HailWalhalla-no account filed
August 1998HailWalhalla-no account filed
August 1998HailWalhalla-no account filed
October 1997HailWalhalla-no account filed
August 1994Thunderstorm WindWalhalla-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Pembina 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.

Listed places nearby

2 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Walla Theater1.4 miles2010
Dease-Martineau House, Trading Post, and Oxcart Trail Segments7.0 miles2017

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 75001305 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Pembina CountyAll 12 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.