BlockFrom the record
One of 3 National Register listings published here for Slope County · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article
Original Slope County Courthouse
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
The listing
- Listing status. The Park Service records this property as Removed.
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Address. Second St., Amidon, 58620
- Category. building
- Also known as. North Dakota County Courthouses TR
- Township. Sand Creek township
- National Register reference number. 85002994 - 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
7 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Original Slope County Courthouse between 1996 and 2017, burning about 1,185 acres in total. 3 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 3 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 September 1996 | Natural | 300 acres | Custer Gallatin National Forest | FRANKLUND |
| 8 August 2017 | Natural | 1.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | WOLFGRAM LIGHTNING FIRE |
| 27 August 2005 | Equipment and vehicle use | 700 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | not named |
| 21 July 2017 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 5.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | POLE |
| 5 June 2017 | Natural | 1.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | GNAT |
| 11 June 2017 | Smoking | 10 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | EXIT 27 |
| 27 November 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 168 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | MYSTERY |
Mines and quarries near this property
4 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Original Slope County Courthouse: 4 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scoria Pit | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this property
60 of 103 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Amidon, the town this property stands in, in 103 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 65 hail, 32 thunderstorm wind, 3 tornado, 1 flood. 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 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Amidon | $400,000 | A hopper style grain bin was destroyed at a ranch. Electrical poles in the area were snapped. |
| July 2016 | Hail | Amidon | $150,000 | Crops and vehicles were extensively damaged from the baseball sized hail. |
| July 2016 | Hail | Amidon | $125,000 | The ground was covered with golf ball sized hail. The hail dented frames on windows and broke window screens. Windshields were broken on vehicles. |
| July 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Amidon | $90,000 | Two outbuildings on a farm were toppled. Windows on the home were broken. |
| July 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Amidon | $80,000 | A barn collapsed at a ranch, and animals were trapped inside. |
| July 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Amidon | $75,000 | Four grain grain bins were damaged by the thunderstorm winds. |
| June 2007 | Flood | Amidon | $50,000 | Heavy rain over a few day period led to water running over county roads. Newspaper articles indicated the water was not significantly deep over most of them. Low water was running across farm roads and fields. |
| July 2017 | Hail | Amidon | $25,000 | The large hail broke windows in a home. Tree damage was also reported. |
| September 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Amidon | $15,000 | strong downburst winds developed 20 miles northwest of Amidon on the Logging Creek Ranch where between 300 and 400 Ponderosa Pines were knocked down or tore in half. 4 miles south of the logging camp a rancher had 2 roofs blown off of sheds and his steel wind mill was doubled over in half. A Forest Service wind recorder at the Sand Creek Wildlife refuge 7 NW of Amidon recorded the peak gust at 135 mph. This is the new record non-tornadic wind speed for North Dakota. One the refuge its estimated that another 200-300 pines were stripped, tore in half, or toppled altogether. |
| July 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Amidon | $5,000 | Several tree branches were blown off from the strong winds. |
| July 2007 | Hail | Amidon | $5,000 | The ground was white with hail at conclusion. Minor damage to buildings was reported. |
| June 1999 | Tornado (F0) | Amidon | $5,000 | no account filed |
| September 2021 | Hail | Amidon | $2,000 | The hail broke a skylight on a home. |
| July 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Amidon | $1,000 | Severe thunderstorm winds resulted in four inch in diameter tree limbs down, as well as a round metal picnic table being turned over and damaged. |
| June 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Amidon | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated by a trained spotter. |
| June 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Amidon | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated by the public. |
| July 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Amidon | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated by a trained spotter. |
| July 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Amidon | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated by a trained spotter. |
| July 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Amidon | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated by the public. |
| July 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Amidon | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated by Emergency Manager. |
| August 2019 | Hail | Amidon | - | Significant crop damage occurred. |
| June 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Amidon | - | A trained spotter reported strong thunderstorm wind gusts near Amidon. |
| July 2011 | Hail | Amidon | - | The majority of the hail was the size of nickels, with a few larger stones. |
| August 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Amidon | - | An estimated wind speed of 60 mph was reported. |
| July 2010 | Tornado (EF0) | Amidon | - | This tornado occurred in open country and impacted no structures. There was no damage. The tornado was produced by a high based thunderstorm and was visible from as far away as Beach, North Dakota, around 40 miles away. The tornado was rated EF0. The National Weather Service received no fewer than five reports of the event in real time, from different directions. This made it difficult in determining exactly where the tornado occurred. Location was determined with assistance of the Slope County Sheriff. |
| June 2009 | Heavy Rain | Amidon | - | A thunderstorm produced 1.40 inches of rainfall in 20 minutes. |
| May 2005 | Hail | Amidon | - | Hail damaged police vehicle in the city of Amidon. |
| July 2005 | Hail | Amidon | - | Hail reported along Highway 85. |
| July 2001 | Tornado (F0) | Amidon | - | Multiple brief touchdown's in open country. Reported by three different sources. The sighting occurred just west of the Slope-Hettinger county line. |
| July 2000 | Hail | Amidon | - | Pasture pounded flat. |
| July 1997 | Hail | Amidon | - | Hail fell 9 W of Amidon |
| June 1997 | Hail | Amidon | - | also wind gusts to 70 mph |
| June 1997 | Hail | Amidon | - | Hail fell 12 SE Amidon |
| June 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Amidon | - | no account filed |
| July 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Amidon | - | no account filed |
| July 2025 | Hail | Amidon | - | no account filed |
| August 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Amidon | - | no account filed |
| August 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Amidon | - | no account filed |
| August 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Amidon | - | no account filed |
| July 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Amidon | - | no account filed |
| June 2024 | Hail | Amidon | - | no account filed |
| June 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Amidon | - | no account filed |
| June 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Amidon | - | no account filed |
| June 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Amidon | - | no account filed |
| June 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Amidon | - | no account filed |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Amidon | - | no account filed |
| July 2022 | Hail | Amidon | - | no account filed |
| July 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Amidon | - | no account filed |
| July 2022 | Hail | Amidon | - | no account filed |
| July 2021 | Hail | Amidon | - | no account filed |
| July 2021 | Hail | Amidon | - | no account filed |
| July 2021 | Hail | Amidon | - | no account filed |
| July 2021 | Hail | Amidon | - | no account filed |
| July 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Amidon | - | no account filed |
| July 2020 | Hail | Amidon | - | no account filed |
| June 2019 | Hail | Amidon | - | no account filed |
| July 2019 | Hail | Amidon | - | no account filed |
| August 2019 | Hail | Amidon | - | no account filed |
| July 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Amidon | - | no account filed |
| June 2018 | Hail | Amidon | - | no account filed |
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 85002994 in Record Group 79. |
| Wikipedia article | Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA. |
| Slope County | All 3 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.
- 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.