Soo Line Depot

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.

From the record

“Wilton station in Wilton, North Dakota, USA, was built in 1900 by the Minneapolis, St. Keith, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978 as the Minneapolis, St.”
Wikipedia article Wilton station (North Dakota), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 8 National Register listings published here for McLean County · listed in 1978 · 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. 1st St. and McLean Ave., Wilton, 58579
When was it listed? March 1978
Category. building
City. Wilton city
National Register reference number. 78003079 - 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 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Soo Line Depot in 2003, burning about 1,500 acres in total. 1 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
Natural	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
23 August 2003	Natural	1,500 acres	North Dakota State Forest Service	WILTON

Every fire recorded in McLean County

Storms near this property

21 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wilton, the town this property stands in, in 21 storm reports between 1998 and 2023: 12 hail, 7 thunderstorm wind, 2 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
May 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Wilton	$50,000	Trees blown down and roof blown off pole barn.
July 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Wilton	$20,000	Large trees were uprooted in the city of Wilton.
August 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Wilton	$5,000	A section of fence was destroyed and one inch diameter branches were broken.
June 2008	Hail	Wilton	-	Pea to penny size hail was reported along with heavy rain.
June 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Wilton	-	Multiple reports of high winds around the small city of White Shield. Small branches broken.
June 2002	Funnel Cloud	Wilton	-	Funnel last less than a minute then retreated back into the parent cloud. Storm chaser reported a rotating wall cloud in the same location.
November 2000	Hail	Wilton	-	Power outage in town.
June 2023	Hail	Wilton	-	no account filed
August 2023	Funnel Cloud	Wilton	-	no account filed
June 2022	Hail	Wilton	-	no account filed
July 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Wilton	-	no account filed
July 2015	Hail	Wilton	-	no account filed
July 2015	Hail	Wilton	-	no account filed
September 2014	Hail	Wilton	-	no account filed
September 2014	Hail	Wilton	-	no account filed
July 2011	Hail	Wilton	-	no account filed
July 2011	Hail	Wilton	-	no account filed
May 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Wilton	-	no account filed
August 2004	Hail	Wilton	-	no account filed
July 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Wilton	-	no account filed
May 1998	Hail	Wilton	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in McLean 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
	Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church	0.3 miles	1982

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 78003079 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
McLean 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.
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.