Photograph of Huff Archeological Site — Photograph by Plazak, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Huff State Historic Site (32MO11)

A National Historic Landmark. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

From the record

“The Huff Archeological Site is a prehistoric Mandan village in North Dakota dated around 1450 AD. The site has been designated a National Historic Landmark, and is one of the best preserved sites of the period.”
Wikipedia article Huff Archeological Site, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 11 National Register listings published here for Morton County · listed in 1980 · category: Site · a National Historic Landmark.

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

The listing

Address. SE of Huff, Huff, 58554
When was it listed? July 1980
Category. site
Unorganized territory. East Morton
National Register reference number. 80002920 - 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

6 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Huff State Historic Site (32MO11) between 2002 and 2016, burning about 10,009 acres in total. 3 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	3
Fireworks	1
Recreation and ceremony	1
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
24 August 2004	Natural	450 acres	North Dakota State Forest Service	DESERT
30 July 2005	Natural	4.0 acres	North Dakota State Forest Service	not named
2 July 2016	Fireworks	1.0 acres	North Dakota State Forest Service	HARMON LAKE
20 June 2002	Natural	2,554 acres	Long Lake National Wildlife Refuge	BISRURAL 2
9 April 2003	Recreation and ceremony	6,000 acres	Long Lake National Wildlife Refuge	MCCLEAN BOTTOMS
12 March 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1,000 acres	North Dakota State Forest Service	RIFLE RANGE

Every fire recorded in Morton County

Storms near this property

15 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Huff, the town this property stands in, in 15 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 9 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind. 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
July 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Huff	$100,000	Large hail accompanied the strong thunderstorm winds with damage to structures and crops.
July 2014	Hail	Huff	$45,000	Strong thunderstorm winds accompanied the large hail and broke windows and damaged vehicles and equipment.
July 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Huff	$30,000	Strong thunderstorm winds resulted in a barn roof being blown off and carried 200 yards.
July 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Huff	$20,000	Strong thunderstorm winds uprooted two foot in diameter oak trees near Huff.
June 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Huff	$1,000	no account filed
July 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Huff	-	Large hail accompanied the strong thunderstorm winds.
July 2014	Hail	Huff	-	Strong thunderstorm winds accompanied the large hail.
July 2010	Hail	Huff	-	The large hail was accompanied by strong thunderstorm winds.
June 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Huff	-	no account filed
September 2022	Hail	Huff	-	no account filed
August 2019	Hail	Huff	-	no account filed
June 2005	Hail	Huff	-	no account filed
June 1995	Hail	Huff	-	no account filed
July 1995	Hail	Huff	-	no account filed
August 1995	Hail	Huff	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Morton 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 80002920 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Morton County	All 11 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.