South Wild Rice Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

From the record

“John's Lutheran Church of Richland County, was built in 1883 by the faith community originally known as the South Wild Rice Lutheran Congregation, whose constitution was adopted on December 27, 1872. In 1882 the name of the faith community was changed to St.”
Wikipedia article South Wild Rice Church, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 12 National Register listings published here for Richland County · listed in 1982 · 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, 1 site as contributing to the listing.
Address. SE of Galchutt at US 81 and CR 8, Galchutt, 58075
When was it listed? October 1982
Category. building
Township. Abercrombie township
National Register reference number. 82001345 - 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 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of South Wild Rice Church between 2017 and 2019, burning about 1 acre 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	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
6 May 2017	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	North Dakota State Forest Service	904
26 November 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	North Dakota State Forest Service	3245

Every fire recorded in Richland County

Storms near this property

12 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Galchutt, the town this property stands in, in 12 storm reports between 1997 and 2022: 8 hail, 1 lightning, 1 flash flood, 1 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
June 1997	Lightning	Galchutt	$30,000	Lightning struck the steeple of a church, igniting a fire in the bell house.
May 2021	Hail	Galchutt	-	One inch hail near mile marker 31 along I-29.
July 2021	Hail	Galchutt	-	Report and photo posted via social media. Time based on radar.
August 2013	Hail	Galchutt	-	Hail covered Interstate 29 near exit 31.
August 2013	Tornado (EF1)	Galchutt	-	A partially rain and hail wrapped tornado tracked intermittently for about three miles. The tornado snapped several trees in a series of shelterbelts and threw large tree limbs well into the fields. Peak winds were estimated at 90 mph. The tornado likely crossed Interstate 29 near mile point 29 during this period.
June 2009	Hail	Galchutt	-	The hail fell along Interstate 29 at the Galchutt exit (mile point 31).
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Galchutt	-	Heavy rain and wind gusts near sixty miles per hour occurred on Interstate 29 at mile marker 22.
April 2007	Flash Flood	Galchutt	-	Water overtopped county road 6 near the Wild Rice River.
July 2022	Hail	Galchutt	-	no account filed
September 2003	Hail	Galchutt	-	no account filed
June 2002	Hail	Galchutt	-	no account filed
June 2001	Hail	Galchutt	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Richland 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
	Fort Abercrombie	4.3 miles	2009

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 82001345 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Richland County	All 12 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.