US Post Office-Hettinger

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.

From the record

“Post Office-Hettinger in Hettinger, North Dakota, United States, is an example of Starved Classicism architecture. Also known as Hettinger Post Office, it was built during 1937-1938 and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in 1989.”
Wikipedia article United States Post Office-Hettinger, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 3 National Register listings published here for Adams County · listed in 1989 · 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. US Post Office--Hettinger - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. Lake St. and Adams Ave., Hettinger, 58639
When was it listed? November 1989
Category. building
Also known as. US Post Offices in North Dakota, 1900-1940 MPS
City. Hettinger city
Architect. Louis A. Simon
National Register reference number. 89001751 - 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

14 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of US Post Office-Hettinger between 2005 and 2016, burning about 41 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
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Railroad operations and maintenance	4
Natural	1
Smoking	1
Recreation and ceremony	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
2 September 2005	Natural	3.0 acres	North Dakota State Forest Service	not named
19 September 2016	Railroad operations and maintenance	1.0 acres	North Dakota State Forest Service	4 MILE FIRE
5 August 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	North Dakota State Forest Service	SLOGAN FIRE
29 August 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	North Dakota State Forest Service	CHRISTMAN FIRE
8 July 2016	Railroad operations and maintenance	2.0 acres	North Dakota State Forest Service	EVENSON FIRE
24 July 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	North Dakota State Forest Service	SOLARIS
16 July 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	20 acres	North Dakota State Forest Service	MEYER
26 June 2016	Smoking	1.0 acres	North Dakota State Forest Service	COUNTRY CLUB

Every fire recorded in Adams County

Storms near this property

60 of 64 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hettinger, the town this property stands in, in 64 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 31 hail, 25 thunderstorm wind, 3 tornado, 2 lightning. The reports record 3 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
July 2005	Hail	Hettinger	3 hurt, $7,000,000	Golfball to baseball size hail combined with 50 mph winds caused extensive damage to homes and vehicles. One hundred (100) vehicles at an automoble dealership sustained heavy damage. Two (2) persons were treated for minor cuts, abrasions and bruises at the Hettinger hospital as a result of the hail storm. A third person sustained minor cuts when the windows of her car were broken by the hail.
June 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Hettinger	$1,000,000	Extensive thunderstorm wind damage occurred in and around the city of Hettinger. About three miles west of Hettinger, multiple hopper-style grain bins blew over, damaging other grain bins nearby. About two miles south of Hettinger, a shop building was severely damage, with two of the four walls collapsed and the roof completely removed. Within the city of Hettinger, many campers and trailers were rolled onto their side, and multiple trees were down. Power lines were also down in various locations due to both the strong winds and trees falling on the lines.
June 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Hettinger	$325,000	Producers reported a 35 to 50 percent loss of yield for 325,395 acres during the storm.
July 2025	Hail	Hettinger	$250,000	Multiple vehicles were severely dented and roofs were damaged.
June 2009	Hail	Hettinger	$50,000	Quarter to golf ball size hail fell for several minutes over Hettinger.
June 2010	Tornado (EF1)	Hettinger	$25,000	This tornado formed just outside of the city of Hettinger, crossed Mirror Lake, where it picked up water, and came into the city on the south side. Tree branches were broken, windows were broken on an apartment building, and an automobile was damaged. The front passenger side of an automobile with two occupants was lifted off the ground a few inches and dropped back down. The occupants saw the narrow tornado spin up the street at them and then lift as it got overhead. They were shook up but no one was injured. Based on the damage done the tornado was rated low end EF1. From that it was determined that the wind speeds were around 90 mph.
June 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Hettinger	$15,000	The strong thunderstorm winds resulted in minor tree damage in Hettinger, along with minor damage to one home.
June 2016	Hail	Hettinger	$15,000	no account filed
June 2007	Flood	Hettinger	$10,000	Heavy rain over a few day period led to water running over some county roads. Newspaper articles indicated the water was not significantly deep. Low water was running across farm roads and fields.
June 1998	Lightning	Hettinger	$10,000	The Hillcrest Care Center received damage to ovens, paging system, air conditioner control, burglar alarm, and television set.
July 1994	Hail	Hettinger	$5,000	no account filed
July 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Hettinger	$5,000	no account filed
July 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Hettinger	-	Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated by the public.
June 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Hettinger	-	Law enforcement in Hettinger reported strong thunderstorm wind gusts.
July 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Hettinger	-	There were no damage reports.
July 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Hettinger	-	This was an Automatic Weather Data Network (AWDN) observation.
July 2002	Hail	Hettinger	-	Rainfall from the storm totaled 2.25 inches.
August 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Hettinger	-	Damage ranged from broken windows and numerous small trees down. A barn just outside of Hettinger was destroyed by the wind.
July 2001	Tornado (F0)	Hettinger	-	Briefly touched down in open country.
July 2000	Hail	Hettinger	-	Hail damage to vehicles and equipment at a pipeline work site.
August 2000	Lightning	Hettinger	-	Lightning caused several fires in the county. Rainfall put out most of the fires.
May 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Hettinger	-	64 MPH WIND
June 2022	Hail	Hettinger	-	no account filed
July 2020	Hail	Hettinger	-	no account filed
August 2020	Hail	Hettinger	-	no account filed
August 2018	Hail	Hettinger	-	no account filed
August 2018	Hail	Hettinger	-	no account filed
June 2018	Hail	Hettinger	-	no account filed
June 2018	Hail	Hettinger	-	no account filed
August 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Hettinger	-	no account filed
August 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Hettinger	-	no account filed
May 2013	Hail	Hettinger	-	no account filed
May 2013	Hail	Hettinger	-	no account filed
June 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Hettinger	-	no account filed
August 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Hettinger	-	no account filed
May 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Hettinger	-	no account filed
June 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Hettinger	-	no account filed
August 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Hettinger	-	no account filed
August 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Hettinger	-	no account filed
August 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Hettinger	-	no account filed
July 2010	Hail	Hettinger	-	no account filed
June 2009	Funnel Cloud	Hettinger	-	no account filed
June 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Hettinger	-	no account filed
July 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Hettinger	-	no account filed
May 2007	Hail	Hettinger	-	no account filed
May 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Hettinger	-	no account filed
July 2007	Hail	Hettinger	-	no account filed
June 2005	Funnel Cloud	Hettinger	-	no account filed
June 2005	Hail	Hettinger	-	no account filed
July 2005	Hail	Hettinger	-	no account filed
March 2004	Hail	Hettinger	-	no account filed
July 2002	Hail	Hettinger	-	no account filed
June 2002	Hail	Hettinger	-	no account filed
August 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Hettinger	-	no account filed
June 2001	Hail	Hettinger	-	no account filed
July 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Hettinger	-	no account filed
May 2000	Hail	Hettinger	-	no account filed
July 2000	Hail	Hettinger	-	no account filed
June 1999	Hail	Hettinger	-	no account filed
August 1998	Hail	Hettinger	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Adams 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

1 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.

Photograph	Property	Distance	Listed
	Adams County Courthouse	under 500 feet	1985

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 89001751 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Adams 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.
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.