Semevolos Farm

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.

From the record

“The Semevolos Farm near Butte, North Dakota, United States, is a farm that was homesteaded by John and Rose/Rosie Semevolos in 1903, and one or more of its buildings were developed in 1906. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.”
Wikipedia article Semevolos Farm, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 8 National Register listings published here for McLean County · listed in 1987 · 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.
Address. SE of Butte, Butte, 58723
When was it listed? October 1987
Category. building
Also known as. Ukrainian Immigrant Dwellings and Churches in North Dakota from Early Settlement Until the Depression MPS
Township. Dogden township
National Register reference number. 87001788 - 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

5 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Semevolos Farm between 2008 and 2019, burning about 767 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	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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 July 2016	Power generation/transmission/distribution	1.0 acres	North Dakota State Forest Service	TARASENKO
6 May 2019	Debris and open burning	23 acres	Audubon National Wildlife Refuge	BLOMEKE
4 May 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	700 acres	North Dakota State Forest Service	CLARENCE HANSON
28 May 2019	Debris and open burning	38 acres	Audubon National Wildlife Refuge	DOCKTER
15 November 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	North Dakota State Forest Service	BAUER

Every fire recorded in McLean County

Storms near this property

8 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Butte, the town this property stands in, in 8 storm reports between 2003 and 2025: 7 hail, 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
September 2025	Tornado (EFU)	Butte	-	This is the first event entry for one tornado that passed through two counties, McLean and McHenry. The tornado touched down in an open field south of Butte and impacted no structures before it ended just north of the county line north of Butte. There was no damage to evaluate. By National Weather Service policy the tornado is rated EF-U (Unknown).
August 2007	Hail	Butte	-	Crop damage from the hail was reported.
July 2003	Hail	Butte	-	The hail occurred at Strawberry Lake recreational area.
September 2024	Hail	Butte	-	no account filed
August 2023	Hail	Butte	-	no account filed
August 2007	Hail	Butte	-	no account filed
August 2007	Hail	Butte	-	no account filed
May 2003	Hail	Butte	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in McLean 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 87001788 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
McLean County	All 8 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.