Hurd Round House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.

From the record

One of 8 National Register listings published here for Wells County · listed in 1977 · category: Building.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 7 mi. SE of Hurdsfield, Hurdsfield, 58451
When was it listed? April 1977
Category. building
Township. Bull Moose township
National Register reference number. 77001038 - 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

5 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Hurd Round House between 2016 and 2018, burning about 32 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 burning	3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
30 June 2016	Debris and open burning	10 acres	North Dakota State Forest Service	LAKE GEORGE 1
17 May 2018	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	North Dakota State Forest Service	HIGHWAY 200 DITCH HURDSFIELD
22 March 2017	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	North Dakota State Forest Service	HIGHWAY 3 RUBBLE FIRE
21 November 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	North Dakota State Forest Service	HIGHWAY 200-3
18 November 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15 acres	North Dakota State Forest Service	HIGHWAY 3

Every fire recorded in Wells 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 Hurd Round House: 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
	Halrorson Construction Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Wells County

Storms near this property

8 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hurdsfield, the town this property stands in, in 8 storm reports between 1999 and 2022: 4 hail, 1 flood, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 funnel cloud. 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
September 2019	Flash Flood	Hurdsfield	$500,000	Deep flood waters flowed over many roads and caused damage throughout much of southern Wells County, where up to seven inches of rain fell from thunderstorms. Multiple roads were washed out and so closed for days. Parts of State Highway 200 and U.S. Highway 52 were closed resulting in major traffic detours. A part of State Highway 200 near Bowdon was washed out. The heavy rain also caused crop damage and yield loss. Hay bales were partially submerged in flood water. Soil erosion was extensive.
May 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Hurdsfield	$20,000	Strong winds associated with a severe thunderstorm blew over a semi trailer near Hurdsfield.
July 2022	Hail	Hurdsfield	-	no account filed
July 2019	Funnel Cloud	Hurdsfield	-	no account filed
June 2017	Hail	Hurdsfield	-	no account filed
September 2014	Hail	Hurdsfield	-	no account filed
August 2005	Hail	Hurdsfield	-	no account filed
August 1999	Flood	Hurdsfield	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Wells 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 77001038 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Wells County	All 8 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.
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.