Viking Lutheran Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

From the record

“Viking Lutheran Church is located in South Viking Township in Benson County, and it is a historic wood-frame church in rural Maddock, North Dakota. The congregation was founded in 1887, and the church was built in 1903 with some Gothic elements.”
Wikipedia article Viking Lutheran Church, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 6 National Register listings published here for Benson County · listed in 1979 · 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. SE of Maddock, Maddock, 58348
When was it listed? November 1979
Category. building
Township. South Viking township
National Register reference number. 79001768 - 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

4 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Viking Lutheran Church between 1994 and 2020, burning about 232 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	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
12 May 1994	Debris and open burning	140 acres	Chase Lake Prairie Project Wetland Management District	SORENSON
10 May 2019	Debris and open burning	80 acres	North Dakota State Forest Service	PRANKE FIRE
23 April 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	North Dakota State Forest Service	MARTIN SHELTERBELT FIRE
2 November 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	12 acres	North Dakota State Forest Service	HVINDEN PASTURE FIRE

Every fire recorded in Benson County

Storms near this property

44 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Maddock, the town this property stands in, in 44 storm reports between 1996 and 2019: 25 hail, 13 thunderstorm wind, 4 tornado, 2 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
August 2001	Tornado (F2)	Maddock	$300,000	A grain elevator was heavily damaged and will likely be shut down for the rest of the year. Many trees were uprooted and a camper was overturned. 1.5 miles of powerline was blown down with 24 poles snapped.
September 2019	Flash Flood	Maddock	$250,000	Over 2 inches of rain fell in less than an hour, flooding streets and intersections.
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Maddock	$50,000	The trained spotter reported a lot of dust on the leading edge of the storm and a prominent shelf cloud.
June 2008	Hail	Maddock	$50,000	The hail was reported by a North Dakota ARB observer. Several sections of cropland received damage across Hesper and North Viking townships.
August 2001	Tornado (F2)	Maddock	$50,000	The tornado began northwest of Maddock and travelled along a path intermittently to near Flora and near Oberon. A 40x60 foot metal shed was demolished. About 2 miles northeast of Maddock, a grain bin was pulled from its foundation and thrown about 500 yards. A hopper bin and concrete pad were also turned on end at this location. Many large trees were flattened all along the path until the tornado weakened from Flora to near Oberon.
August 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Maddock	$1,000	Trees were blown down.
August 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Maddock	$500	Branches were blown down.
August 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Maddock	$500	Branches were blown down.
August 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Maddock	$500	Tree branches were blown off in the Maddock area.
August 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Maddock	$500	Tree branches were blown down.
September 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Maddock	-	A large tree branch was blown down.
June 2008	Hail	Maddock	-	The hail remained on the ground for about one and a half hours. Several sections of crop land recieved damage in Arne Township.
June 2008	Tornado (EF0)	Maddock	-	A persistent funnel produced a brief touchdown in an open field.
July 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Maddock	-	A 9 inch diameter apple tree was blown over.
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Maddock	-	Several trees were blown down.
June 2005	Flash Flood	Maddock	-	Heavy rainfall inundated several roads. Raw sewage had to be pumped into ditches to prevent backup in homes.
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Maddock	-	Several shingles were torn off a roof and several trees were blown down.
July 2005	Tornado (F0)	Maddock	-	Several brief touchdowns occurred in an open field.
July 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Maddock	-	Three inch diameter tree limbs were blown down.
July 2002	Hail	Maddock	-	The ground was white with hail.
July 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Maddock	-	Tree branches were blown down.
July 1997	Hail	Maddock	-	The ground was white with hail.
June 2008	Hail	Maddock	-	no account filed
April 2006	Hail	Maddock	-	no account filed
June 2004	Hail	Maddock	-	no account filed
July 2004	Hail	Maddock	-	no account filed
May 2003	Hail	Maddock	-	no account filed
July 2003	Hail	Maddock	-	no account filed
June 2002	Hail	Maddock	-	no account filed
August 2002	Hail	Maddock	-	no account filed
July 2002	Hail	Maddock	-	no account filed
August 2001	Hail	Maddock	-	no account filed
August 2001	Hail	Maddock	-	no account filed
August 2000	Hail	Maddock	-	no account filed
August 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Maddock	-	no account filed
May 1999	Hail	Maddock	-	no account filed
June 1999	Hail	Maddock	-	no account filed
July 1999	Hail	Maddock	-	no account filed
July 1999	Hail	Maddock	-	no account filed
May 1998	Hail	Maddock	-	no account filed
May 1998	Hail	Maddock	-	no account filed
July 1998	Hail	Maddock	-	no account filed
July 1997	Hail	Maddock	-	no account filed
July 1996	Hail	Maddock	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Benson 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
	West Antelope Bridge	5.1 miles	1997

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 79001768 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Benson County	All 6 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.