Post Office

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.

From the record

“The Post Office, or Old Post Office, in Christine, North Dakota, United States, was built around 1895-98 and was moved in 1906. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.”
Wikipedia article Post Office (Christine, North Dakota), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 12 National Register listings published here for Richland County · listed in 1977 · category: Building.

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

The listing

Listing status. The Park Service records this property as Removed.
What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. Main and 3rd Sts., Christine, 58015
When was it listed? October 1977
Category. building
City. Christine city
National Register reference number. 77001028 - 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

1 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Post Office in 2005, burning about 20 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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 August 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20 acres	North Dakota State Forest Service	not named

Every fire recorded in Richland County

Storms near this property

20 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Christine, the town this property stands in, in 20 storm reports between 1997 and 2020: 8 hail, 7 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 tornado. 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 2013	Flood	Christine	$10,000	Overland flooding developed over portions of rural Eagle Township. Four to eight inches of very heavy rainfall from the preceding evening collected in farm fields, ditches, and small streams through the early morning then steadily drained towards the Red River during the day. County and township roads were overtopped and partially washed out at several locations.
July 2016	Flash Flood	Christine	$5,000	Fields and farm access roads were flooded across portions of south Eagle Township.
September 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Christine	$5,000	A 50 foot tall radio tower was blown down in the strong wind.
June 2013	Flash Flood	Christine	$2,000	Farm yards and fields were flooded near Christine.
August 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Christine	$500	no account filed
July 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Christine	-	A few 4 to 6 inch diameter branches were blown down in shelterbelts between mile points 39 and 42.
June 2018	Hail	Christine	-	The hail was mostly quarter size.
June 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Christine	-	A stop sign was bent over by the strong winds.
June 2014	Funnel Cloud	Christine	-	A persistent funnel cloud was noted near the Red River... between Christine and Wolverton.
June 2013	Hail	Christine	-	Golf ball to hen egg sized hail fell.
July 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Christine	-	Trees were knocked over and split. The time was estimated from radar.
August 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Christine	-	Many large tree branches were blown down by the strong wind. Crops were also flattened by the wind and rain.
August 2008	Hail	Christine	-	The observer measured 1.10 inches of rain between 1220 AM and 1245 AM CDT.
June 2005	Tornado (F0)	Christine	-	The tornado briefly touched down in an open field.
September 2014	Hail	Christine	-	no account filed
June 2013	Hail	Christine	-	no account filed
July 2012	Hail	Christine	-	no account filed
June 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Christine	-	no account filed
September 2002	Hail	Christine	-	no account filed
September 2000	Hail	Christine	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Richland 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

1 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	Property	Distance	Listed
	Nelson's Grocery	under 500 feet	1977

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 77001028 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Richland County	All 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.