Cross Ranch Archeological District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.

From the record

“The Cross Ranch Archeological District near Hensler, North Dakota is a 6,365-acre (2,576 ha) historic district that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in 1985.”
Wikipedia article Cross Ranch Archeological District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 1 National Register listings published here for Oliver County · listed in 1985 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. Cross Ranch Nature Preserve, Hensler, 58530
When was it listed? November 1985
Category. district
Unorganized territory. East Oliver
National Register reference number. 85003484 - 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

3 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Cross Ranch Archeological District between 2004 and 2016, burning about 2,013 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
Natural	1
Debris and open burning	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
3 April 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1,200 acres	North Dakota State Forest Service	SPROUT
15 April 2004	Natural	813 acres	North Dakota State Forest Service	NELSON
5 March 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	North Dakota State Forest Service	HWY 200A MM 923

Every fire recorded in Oliver County

Storms near this property

9 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hensler, the town this property stands in, in 9 storm reports between 1994 and 2006: 4 hail, 4 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
May 1994	Hail	Hensler	$5,000	no account filed
August 2006	Hail	Hensler	-	Severe crop damage. Also had 1.50 inches of rain.
July 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Hensler	-	Cooperative observer reported tree's damage and dumpster flipped over.
June 2000	Tornado (F0)	Hensler	-	Tornado remained in open field and moved into McLean county.
August 2006	Hail	Hensler	-	no account filed
August 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Hensler	-	no account filed
August 2002	Hail	Hensler	-	no account filed
July 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Hensler	-	no account filed
June 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Hensler	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Oliver 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 85003484 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Oliver County	All 1 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.