La Moure County Courthouse

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

From the record

“The LaMoure County Courthouse in LaMoure, North Dakota was built in 1907. It was designed by architects Buechner & Orth in Beaux Arts style.”
Wikipedia article LaMoure County Courthouse, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 3 National Register listings published here for LaMoure County · listed in 1980 · 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. In La Moure, La Moure, 58458
When was it listed? November 1980
Category. building
Also known as. Buechner and Orth Courthouses in North Dakota TR
City. LaMoure city
Architectural style. Beaux-Arts
Architect. Buechner & Orth
National Register reference number. 80004284 - 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 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of La Moure County Courthouse between 2016 and 2018, burning about 9 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
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Debris and open burning	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
8 August 2016	Railroad operations and maintenance	2.0 acres	North Dakota State Forest Service	JOEY SCHMIDT
19 April 2018	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	North Dakota State Forest Service	KENNY RIDDLE
11 March 2016	Power generation/transmission/distribution	1.0 acres	North Dakota State Forest Service	KELLY KLEIN
4 October 2016	Power generation/transmission/distribution	1.0 acres	North Dakota State Forest Service	HENRY KETTERLING

Every fire recorded in LaMoure 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 80004284 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
LaMoure County	All 3 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.