Urbain Cote Round Barn

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.

From the record

“The Urbain Cote Round Barn near Dunseith, North Dakota, United States, is a round barn that was built in 1943. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.”
Wikipedia article Urbain Cote Round Barn, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 3 National Register listings published here for Rolette 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. Cote, Urbain, Round Barn - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. ND 38, Dunseith, 58758
When was it listed? October 1986
Category. building
Also known as. North Dakota Round Barns TR
National Register reference number. 86002755 - 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.

Storms near this property

22 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dunseith, the town this property stands in, in 22 storm reports between 1997 and 2023: 8 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 4 flash flood, 3 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 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Dunseith	$600,000	Many large tree branches were down, with several trees uprooted. There was some damage to roofs, and power poles and lines were down. In one case, a tree fell onto a power line then onto a house, causing the house to start on fire. In another case a teenager, whose age is unknown, was injured (indirect) as he was burned while cleaning up tree damage and unknowingly came in contact with a live downed electrical wire. The teen was hospitalized.
June 2007	Flash Flood	Dunseith	$150,000	Significant damage at the International Peace Gardens. Extensive damage to flowers. Water was nearly a foot deep in the gift shop, the interpretive center, and the administration building. One side of a basement wall on one building collapsed. Water on the grounds and over roads was up to 3 feet deep. Total rain was 4.1 inches, of which 3.1 inches occurred in less than a one hour period.
June 2005	Flash Flood	Dunseith	$33,000	Road washed out due to high water flowing over it. Utility lines exposed under road.
June 2009	Flash Flood	Dunseith	$10,000	Rainfall amounts ranging from three to four inches in one hour resulted in flash flooding over western Rolette County. Water was reported over Highway Five west of Dunseith, and was closed for several hours. The flash flooding occurred in a rural area and there were no reports of flooded structures.
July 2008	Tornado (EF0)	Dunseith	$8,000	The Belcourt Fire Department reported a home sustained minor roof damage north of Dunseith due to a brief tornado touchdown. The damage was consistent with EF0 damage on the Enhanced Fujita Scale. Estimated wind speed based on the EF scale was 80 mph.
July 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Dunseith	$5,000	Large tree were blown down onto power lines.
June 1997	Hail	Dunseith	$5,000	reports of windows broken out of houses. damage amount estimated.
July 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Dunseith	$500	Small tree limbs were broken.
July 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Dunseith	-	Heavy rain accompanied the strong winds.
June 2011	Heavy Rain	Dunseith	-	A heavy rainfall report of 1.5 inches in 20 minutes was received.
June 2007	Hail	Dunseith	-	Occurred at the International Peace Gardens.
June 2007	Hail	Dunseith	-	Occurred at the International Peace Gardens.
July 2005	Flash Flood	Dunseith	-	Excessive water from thunderstorms swamped a farm forcing evacuation of those in the farm house.
June 2002	Tornado (F0)	Dunseith	-	Tornado formed 7 miles southwest of Dunseith and skipped east across open country lifting back into the parent cloud 5 miles south of Dunseith. No damage was reported.
July 2000	Tornado (F0)	Dunseith	-	Tornado began in Bottineau county. No damage reported as tornado remained in open field.
July 1997	Hail	Dunseith	-	hail fell 10 N Dunsieth
July 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Dunseith	-	Winds occurred 9 N of Dunseith near the port of entry. Numerous trees downed.
June 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Dunseith	-	no account filed
August 2010	Hail	Dunseith	-	no account filed
June 2007	Hail	Dunseith	-	no account filed
August 2006	Hail	Dunseith	-	no account filed
May 2002	Hail	Dunseith	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Rolette 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 86002755 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Rolette 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.
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.