T. J. Walker Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

From the record

“Walker Historic District at the Sheyenne River in Fort Ransom, North Dakota, United States, is a 9.3-acre (3.8 ha) historic district that includes resources dating to 1880. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.”
Wikipedia article T. J. Walker Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 8 National Register listings published here for Ransom County · listed in 1979 · category: District.

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

The listing

Listed as. Walker, T. J., Historic District - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. At Sheyenne River, Fort Ransom, 58033
When was it listed? December 1979
Category. district
Township. Fort Ransom township
National Register reference number. 79001774 - 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

2 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of T. J. Walker Historic District in 2013, burning about 6 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	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
18 June 2013	Power generation/transmission/distribution	1.0 acres	North Dakota State Forest Service	COLUMBIA GRAIN
29 April 2013	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	North Dakota State Forest Service	RALPH CHASE

Every fire recorded in Ransom 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 79001774 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Ransom 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.