Lucken Farm

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.

From the record

“The Lucken Farm near Portland, North Dakota, United States, is a bonanza farm that was developed by 1888. Lucken, the son of Norwegian immigrants.”
Wikipedia article Lucken Farm, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 22 National Register listings published here for Traill County · listed in 1986 · category: District.

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 7 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. N of Portland, Portland, 58274
When was it listed? May 1986
Category. district
Township. Viking township
National Register reference number. 86001049 - 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 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Lucken Farm between 2013 and 2020, burning about 26 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 burning	3

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
10 July 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	North Dakota State Forest Service	CR#14 & JCT CR#19 DITCH FIRE
7 May 2013	Debris and open burning	under an acre	North Dakota State Forest Service	14
6 May 2013	Debris and open burning	25 acres	North Dakota State Forest Service	13

Every fire recorded in Traill County

Storms near this property

17 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Portland, the town this property stands in, in 17 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 8 thunderstorm wind, 7 hail, 1 funnel cloud, 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
June 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Portland	-	Mesonet observations confirmed a 60 mph wind gust 1 mile west of Mayville. Mesonet station DVI06914 Mayville ND 1 W.
June 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Portland	-	Davis station 1 west of Mayville reports 72 MPH gust.
June 2023	Hail	Portland	-	Picture of quarter-sized hail in Portland relayed via Facebook.
July 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Portland	-	Peak wind was reported at a personal weather station.
June 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Portland	-	Tree branches were toppled and partially uprooted. Time estimated from radar.
July 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Portland	-	Received a public report of several large hardwood and evergreen trees snapped, along with widespread power outages. Time estimated based on radar and nearby wind sensor reports.
June 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Portland	-	Tree damage was reported.
June 2017	Tornado (EF0)	Portland	-	This tornado was viewed by local residents. Peak winds were estimated at 75 mph.
May 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Portland	-	An empty steel grain bin was ripped from its pad and thrown across a farm yard. Several large tree limbs were snapped.
June 2019	Hail	Portland	-	no account filed
August 2016	Hail	Portland	-	no account filed
August 2002	Hail	Portland	-	no account filed
August 2002	Hail	Portland	-	no account filed
July 2001	Funnel Cloud	Portland	-	no account filed
August 1997	Hail	Portland	-	no account filed
June 1997	Hail	Portland	-	no account filed
August 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Portland	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Traill 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.

Listed places nearby

6 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Viking Bridge	1.1 miles	1997
Grandins' Mayville Farm District	2.3 miles	1985
Delchar Theater	2.6 miles	1985
Mayville Public Library	2.6 miles	1977
First National Bank	2.7 miles	1985
Mayville Historic District	2.7 miles	1985

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 86001049 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Traill County	All 22 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.