Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.
From the record
“The McHenry County Courthouse in Towner, North Dakota was built in 1907. Along with a number of other North Dakota courthouses designed by its architects Buechner & Orth, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.”
Wikipedia article McHenry County Courthouse, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 10 National Register listings published here for McHenry County · listed in 1980 · category: Building.
Also known as. Buechner and Orth Courthouses in North Dakota TR
City. Towner city
Architectural style. Beaux-Arts
Architect. Buechner & Orth
National Register reference number.80002917- 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 1994
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 5 fires within 5 miles of McHenry County Courthouse
between 1994 and 2020, burning about 1,845 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
3
Debris and open burning
2
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Towner, the town this property stands in, in 34 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 23 hail, 8 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 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.
Water as much as 8 inches deep in the streets of the downtown area flowed over the curbs and sidewalks and into businesses. Motorists had to find alternate routes around the city. Most of the damage was of the cleaning up variety typically associated with minor flood waters.
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.
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.
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