Granville State Bank

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.

From the record

“The Granville State Bank, also known as the Former Granville Service Agency, is a two-story commercial building on Main Street in Granville, North Dakota. The structure was built by Granville State Bank president George E.”
Wikipedia article Granville State Bank, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 10 National Register listings published here for McHenry 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 listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. Main and 2nd Sts., Granville, 58741
When was it listed? September 1977
Category. building
Township. Granville township
Architectural style. Romanesque Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 77001509 - 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

19 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Granville State Bank between 2006 and 2019, burning about 2,105 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	8
Debris and open burning	5
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Other causes	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
2 September 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	North Dakota State Forest Service	368
9 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	North Dakota State Forest Service	2019-19
13 August 2016	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	North Dakota State Forest Service	LARRY BOUTLIER
26 July 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	North Dakota State Forest Service	NEILSON TRACTOR
22 July 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	North Dakota State Forest Service	2019-17
12 July 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	North Dakota State Forest Service	2017-21
27 June 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	North Dakota State Forest Service	2017-17
23 May 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	North Dakota State Forest Service	2017-14

Every fire recorded in McHenry County

Storms near this property

17 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Granville, the town this property stands in, in 17 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 11 hail, 3 tornado, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. 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 2005	Flash Flood	Granville	$70,000	no account filed
August 1994	Tornado (F0)	Granville	$30,000	no account filed
September 2025	Tornado (EFU)	Granville	-	The tornado touched down in an open field south of Granville and impacted no structures. There was no damage to evaluate. By National Weather Service policy the tornado is rated EF-U (Unknown).
August 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Granville	-	Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated by a trained spotter.
July 2013	Tornado (EF0)	Granville	-	An aircraft pilot with the North Dakota Atmospheric Resource Board reported seeing a tornado, seeing evidence that it was in contact with the ground, in rural McHenry County. Doppler radar was used to narrow the more exact location. Follow up with emergency management indicated there were no reports of damage and so the tornado was rated EF0. Prior to touchdown a funnel cloud was observed for several minutes. See the funnel cloud entry for this same day in McHenry County.
July 1997	Hail	Granville	-	hail also accompanied by 70-90 mph winds
September 2025	Hail	Granville	-	no account filed
September 2025	Hail	Granville	-	no account filed
September 2025	Hail	Granville	-	no account filed
July 2022	Hail	Granville	-	no account filed
June 2020	Hail	Granville	-	no account filed
June 2016	Hail	Granville	-	no account filed
July 2012	Hail	Granville	-	no account filed
July 2012	Hail	Granville	-	no account filed
June 2004	Hail	Granville	-	no account filed
August 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Granville	-	no account filed
August 1994	Hail	Granville	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in McHenry 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 77001509 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
McHenry County	All 10 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.