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Robert Abell Round Barn

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.

From the record

“The Robert Abell Round Barn, in Logan County near Burnstad, North Dakota, United States, was built in 1942 by Robert Abell. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.”

Wikipedia article Robert Abell Round Barn, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 2 National Register listings published here for Logan County · listed in 1986 · 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.
  • Listed as. Abell, Robert, Round Barn - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. ND 38, Burnstad, 58495
  • When was it listed? October 1986
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. North Dakota Round Barns TR
  • Unorganized territory. West Logan
  • National Register reference number. 86002754 - 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

4 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Robert Abell Round Barn in 2016, burning under an acre 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
Equipment and vehicle use2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2

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
9 November 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceROBERT LIVERSAGE
5 November 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceJACQUE REIS
15 November 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceREED ZIMMERMAN
19 October 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceMDU POWER LINES

Every fire recorded in Logan County

Storms near this property

24 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Burnstad, the town this property stands in, in 24 storm reports between 1999 and 2025: 16 hail, 7 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. The reports record 2 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2002Thunderstorm WindBurnstad2 hurtTwo persons were injured when a large tree was toppled by the wind onto their tent. Numerous uprooted tree's with several homes receiving minor wind damage. The injuries were at a campground in Beaver State Park.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindBurnstad$1,200,000Power lines were reported down south of Napoleon along North Dakota Highway 3. Also, a 70 foot tall electrical high-voltage structure toppled over. Significant farm damage occurred.
July 2010HailBurnstad$25,000The large hail resulted in vehicle damage and some crop damage.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindBurnstad$2,000The strong winds combined with nickel-size hail to break some windows.
June 2024Tornado (EFU)Burnstad-The tornado touched down in an open field north of Burnstad and impacted no structures. There was no damage to evaluate. By National Weather Service policy the tornado is rated EFU (Unknown).
July 2020Thunderstorm WindBurnstad-Thunderstorm wind gusts to 60 mph were estimated by a trained spotter.
July 2013HailBurnstad-Winds to fifty miles per hour accompanied the hail.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindBurnstad-Damage was not reported with this severe thunderstorm wind gust.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindBurnstad-USDA reported 60 percent loss of small grain, 40 percent loss of corn, sunflowers, soybeans and alfalfa, and 30 percent loss of mixed forage from high winds and hail. 0.75 inch hail accompanied the storm.
June 2005HailBurnstad-Winds up to 50 mph and heavy rainfall of 2.40 inches accompanied the storm.
June 2025HailBurnstad-no account filed
July 2025HailBurnstad-no account filed
May 2024HailBurnstad-no account filed
June 2024HailBurnstad-no account filed
July 2022HailBurnstad-no account filed
July 2022HailBurnstad-no account filed
September 2022HailBurnstad-no account filed
June 2021HailBurnstad-no account filed
June 2006HailBurnstad-no account filed
August 2006Thunderstorm WindBurnstad-no account filed
June 2006HailBurnstad-no account filed
July 2004HailBurnstad-no account filed
June 2003HailBurnstad-no account filed
June 1999HailBurnstad-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Logan 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 86002754 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Logan 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.