Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.
From the record
“The Golden Valley County Courthouse is a historic courthouse in the city of Beach in Golden Valley County, North Dakota. The courthouse was built in 1923 in the Federal Revival style; it is one of two courthouses in North Dakota to have been built in this style, the other being the Logan County Courthouse.”
Wikipedia article Golden Valley County Courthouse, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 2 National Register listings published here for Golden Valley County · listed in 1985 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.85002983- 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 2015
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Golden Valley County Courthouse
between 2015 and 2020, burning about 12 acres in total. 1 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
Fireworks
1
Equipment and vehicle use
1
Natural
1
Railroad operations and maintenance
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
1 working within 5 miles of Golden Valley County Courthouse: 1 unknown.
None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sodium. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Beach, the town this property stands in, in 77 storm reports between 1993 and 2024: 35 hail, 35 thunderstorm wind, 3 funnel cloud, 2 flash flood.
The reports record 3 injuries. 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.
Tree damage occurred in Beach. Three injuries occurred at the Golden Valley County Fairgrounds when part of a stage being set up was blown over. The injuries were minor.
The strong thunderstorm winds blew down multiple cottonwood and evergreen trees. Some of the trees were 18 inches in diameter. Power lines were also reported down.
Hail in various sizes up to two and one-quarter inches in diameter fell over the city of Beach for a half hour. Damage was reported to homes in Beach and crops around Beach.
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.
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.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
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.
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