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Photograph of Sheridan County Courthouse
Photograph by Andrew Filer, CC BY-SA 2.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Sheridan County Courthouse

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.

From the record

“The Sheridan County Courthouse in McClusky, North Dakota, United States, was designed in the Art Deco style by architect Ira Rush. It was built in 1938 and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.”

Wikipedia article Sheridan County Courthouse (North Dakota), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 2 National Register listings published here for Sheridan 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. 215 E. Second St., McClusky, 58463
  • When was it listed? November 1985
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. North Dakota County Courthouses TR
  • Township. McClusky township
  • Architectural style. Art Deco architecture
  • National Register reference number. 85002990 - 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 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Sheridan County Courthouse in 2005, burning about 3 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
Debris and open burning1
Equipment and vehicle use1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
16 September 2005Debris and open burning1.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest Servicenot named
26 August 2005Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest Servicenot named

Every fire recorded in Sheridan County

Storms near this property

44 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names McClusky, the town this property stands in, in 44 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 27 hail, 11 thunderstorm wind, 3 funnel cloud, 2 tornado. The reports record 1 injury. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2007HailMcclusky1 hurtOne 60 year old female was injured by hail while outside. She heard the severe thunderstorm warning and went outside to secure property in anticipation of the storm. Golf ball size hail fell from a mostly sunny sky, hitting her in the head. She required 8 stiches to her forehead. The large hail was falling miles away from the storm core.
August 2019HailMcclusky$175,000Buildings were damaged by the large hail.
July 2016HailMcclusky$50,000no account filed
July 2016HailMcclusky$30,000no account filed
June 2022Thunderstorm WindMcclusky$25,000A camper was flipped onto its roof.
August 2019HailMcclusky$15,000no account filed
May 1994HailMcClusky$5,000no account filed
August 2019HailMcclusky$2,000Wind driven hail broke a window.
June 2024HailMcclusky-Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated by a trained spotter.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindMcclusky-Brief power outages were reported with the strong winds.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindMcclusky-Very strong outflow winds from thunderstorms blew over hay bails.
June 2002HailMcclusky-Highway Patrol reported 50 mph winds with the storm.
August 2002Thunderstorm WindMcclusky-Large tree limbs down. Minor flooding within the city.
August 2002Thunderstorm WindMcclusky-Large trees down in the city.
July 2001Thunderstorm WindMcclusky-Reports of numerous 3-inch branches broken off tree's on a farmstead.
August 2000Thunderstorm WindMcclusky-Damage to shingles and large branches down.
August 1999Thunderstorm WindMcclusky-Numerous tree branches down.
August 1999HailMcclusky-Crop loss of 60 to 100 percent covering 2 to 3 miles wide.
July 1998HailMcclusky-Damage occurred to sunflower crop.
June 2022HailMcclusky-no account filed
June 2022HailMcclusky-no account filed
July 2020HailMcclusky-no account filed
August 2019HailMcclusky-no account filed
July 2016HailMcclusky-no account filed
July 2016Funnel CloudMcclusky-no account filed
June 2010HailMcclusky-no account filed
July 2009Funnel CloudMcclusky-no account filed
May 2007HailMcclusky-no account filed
August 2006HailMcclusky-no account filed
May 2005Funnel CloudMcclusky-no account filed
July 2005HailMcclusky-no account filed
July 2003Thunderstorm WindMcclusky-no account filed
July 2003HailMcclusky-no account filed
July 2003Thunderstorm WindMcclusky-no account filed
August 2002HailMcclusky-no account filed
August 2002HailMcclusky-no account filed
August 2001HailMcclusky-no account filed
June 1999Tornado (F0)Mcclusky-no account filed
June 1999HailMcclusky-no account filed
August 1999FloodMcclusky-no account filed
May 1998HailMcclusky-no account filed
July 1996Tornado (F1)Mcclusky-no account filed
July 1996HailMcclusky-no account filed
July 1995Thunderstorm WindMcClusky-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sheridan 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 recordThe nomination case file for reference 85002990 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Sheridan CountyAll 2 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.