Pierson Farm

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.

From the record

“The Pierson Farm near York, North Dakota is a farm that was developed in 1923. The farm was owned by Olaf Pierson, a Swedish immigrant.”
Wikipedia article Pierson Farm, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 6 National Register listings published here for Benson County · listed in 1985 · 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. 3.5 mi. S of York off US 2, York, 58386
When was it listed? August 1985
Category. building
Township. Beaver township
National Register reference number. 85001939 - 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.

Storms near this property

11 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names York, the town this property stands in, in 11 storm reports between 1999 and 2024: 5 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 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 2024	Hail	York	-	Half dollar to ping pong ball sized hail. Covered 15 to 20% of the ground.
July 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	York	-	Multiple trees reported blown down in York. Report received via social media and time estimated via radar.
May 2020	Tornado (EF0)	York	-	A tornado (landspout) briefly touched down north of York, in Benson County.
September 2018	Hail	York	-	Small hail nearly covered the ground.
May 2007	Flash Flood	York	-	Numerous roads were flooded between York and Knox. One farmer had his farmstead access road flooded in 4 different places. Roughly 5 inches of rain fell in about 3 hours.
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	York	-	The roof was torn off a pole barn.
August 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	York	-	60 to 70 mph winds flattened area fields. One inch of rain also fell.
June 2007	Hail	York	-	no account filed
May 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	York	-	no account filed
July 2002	Hail	York	-	no account filed
May 1999	Hail	York	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Benson 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 85001939 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Benson 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.
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.