St. Mary's Church Non-Contiguous Historic District

Built in 1885. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

From the record

“Mary's Church Non-contiguous Historic District is a historic district near Hague, North Dakota, United States. The church was founded by immigrants who were Germans from Russia.”
Wikipedia article St. Mary's Church Non-contiguous Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 6 National Register listings published here for Emmons County · listed in 1983 · category: District · built in 1885.

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

The listing

Address. Off ND 11, Hague, 58542
When was it listed? October 1983
Category. district
Unorganized territory. South Emmons
When was it built? 1885
National Register reference number. 83004066 - 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

1 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of St. Mary's Church Non-Contiguous Historic District in 2016, 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

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
10 March 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	North Dakota State Forest Service	KENNYZ

Every fire recorded in Emmons County

Storms near this property

16 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hague, the town this property stands in, in 16 storm reports between 1998 and 2024: 10 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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 1998	Hail	Hague	$50,000	Damage was surveyed by the Sheriff and a deputy. Most of the damage was due to wind driven hail. Very little damage due to wind alone. The power went out in Hague near 6 PM CDT and their was minor damage to the Hague Grain Elevator.
June 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Hague	-	Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated by a trained spotter.
June 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Hague	-	Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated by a trained spotter.
June 2010	Hail	Hague	-	The large hail was accompanied with strong winds up to 50 miles per hour, resulting in severe crop damage.
June 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Hague	-	The severe thunderstorm winds were accompanied with large hail.
August 2006	Hail	Hague	-	Report from a North Dakota Atmospheric Resource Board Observer.
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Hague	-	Pole barn destroyed. Hail to 1 inch in diameter accompanied the winds.
July 1998	Tornado (F0)	Hague	-	Brief touchdown reported near Rice Lake. One eye witness reported a wall of water rapidly approaching his farm. His rain guage measured 1.75 inches in less than 8 minutes and every building on his farm had some kind of damage.
May 2024	Hail	Hague	-	no account filed
July 2017	Hail	Hague	-	no account filed
July 2016	Hail	Hague	-	no account filed
June 2015	Hail	Hague	-	no account filed
June 2010	Hail	Hague	-	no account filed
July 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Hague	-	no account filed
August 2008	Hail	Hague	-	no account filed
July 2007	Hail	Hague	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Emmons 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 83004066 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Emmons County	All 6 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.