US Post Office-Langdon

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.

From the record

“Post Office-Langdon, also known as Langdon Post Office, in Langdon, North Dakota, United States, is a post office building that was built in 1937. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.”
Wikipedia article United States Post Office-Langdon, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 3 National Register listings published here for Cavalier 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--Langdon - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 323 Eighth Ave., Langdon, 58249
When was it listed? November 1989
Category. building
Also known as. US Post Offices in North Dakota, 1900-1940 MPS
City. Langdon city
Architect. James A. Wetmore
National Register reference number. 89001752 - 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

11 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of US Post Office-Langdon between 2017 and 2019, burning about 2,526 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	7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4

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
13 August 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	North Dakota State Forest Service	CHEATLY GRASS FIRE
7 June 2019	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	North Dakota State Forest Service	WELSH FIRE
19 June 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	North Dakota State Forest Service	9 WEST OF LANGDON
28 May 2019	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	North Dakota State Forest Service	ALBRECHT PROPERTY
29 April 2018	Debris and open burning	85 acres	North Dakota State Forest Service	OLGA CEMETARY
17 November 2019	Debris and open burning	160 acres	North Dakota State Forest Service	POWER LAND
7 October 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	North Dakota State Forest Service	1 NORTH OF SCHROEDER FURNITURE
25 October 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	North Dakota State Forest Service	STEVE KAKELA

Every fire recorded in Cavalier County

Storms near this property

60 of 70 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Langdon, the town this property stands in, in 70 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 37 hail, 25 thunderstorm wind, 4 tornado, 2 lightning. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
September 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Langdon	2 hurt, $10,000	no account filed
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Langdon	$2,000,000	Many 100 foot tall evergreen trees were uprooted. A pole barn was blown down and the roof was blown off a mobile home. Many other trees were snapped, with their trunks laying toward the northeast. The grain elevator sustained some minor damage.
June 2017	Tornado (EF1)	Langdon	$100,000	A weak tornado blew the doors off a seed company elevator and spread door and roof panels around the grounds in a circular pattern. Further downstream, the tornado snapped 6 power poles along 96th avenue northeast, a quarter mile east of highway 1. Peak winds were estimated at 105 mph.
August 2000	Lightning	Langdon	$50,000	A fire, ignited by a lightning strike, destroyed a barn and its contents.
August 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Langdon	$25,000	A 58 mph wind gust was measured at an NDAWN site. The wind knocked down trees onto vehicles and powerlines. A fire started when a tree fell on a powerline near a house.
August 1994	Hail	Langdon	$20,000	no account filed
August 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Langdon	$15,000	Strong wind gusts flipped over 5 grain augers and dented two 4,000 bushel steel grain bins.
May 2007	Lightning	Langdon	$5,000	Lightning struck the steeple of a church in Langdon, causing some shingle and brick damage.
June 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Langdon	$2,000	A greenhouse was destroyed by the wind.
September 2024	Flash Flood	Langdon	$1,000	Trained Spotter reports flash flooding, with storms that produced 3 inches of rain in a short period of time.
August 2021	Hail	Langdon	-	Received a public report of dime to quarter-sized hail.
August 2021	Hail	Langdon	-	Very heavy rain and strong winds occurred, along with hail up to the size of ping pong balls.
July 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Langdon	-	The wind gust was measured by a 10 meter high NDAWN mesonet sensor.
July 2019	Hail	Langdon	-	A couple rounds of hail came through, dropping quarter to half dollar sized hail.
July 2019	Hail	Langdon	-	Enough hail fell to turn the deck white.
July 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Langdon	-	Tree branches were blown down and nickel sized hail was reported.
June 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Langdon	-	The wind gust was measured by a NDAWN mesonet sensor east of town.
August 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Langdon	-	A few large tree branches were blown down and at least one twelve inch diameter tree was snapped near the ground.
August 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Langdon	-	The wind gust was measured by a personal weather station.
May 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Langdon	-	A large tree was blown down in a farmyard.
July 2009	Hail	Langdon	-	Pea to nickel sized hail fell with 1.10 inches of rain.
June 2007	Funnel Cloud	Langdon	-	Two funnel clouds were reported and photographed coming down the hill by Langdon.
August 2006	Hail	Langdon	-	Quarter to half dollar sized hail fell.
August 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Langdon	-	Many large cottonwood trees in a farm shelterbelt were blown down.
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Langdon	-	Several grain bins were blown down.
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Langdon	-	A barn was blown down. Two grain bins were ripped from their foundations, with debris blown downwind for a quarter mile. Numerous trees were uprooted or snapped off. Shingles were torn from houses and basement windows were broken.
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Langdon	-	Flying debris was reported in a yard. Two trees were uprooted.
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Langdon	-	An NDAWN mesonet sensor reported an 86 mph wind gust. A tree fell on a building and another large evergreen was blown down.
June 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Langdon	-	Estimated 90 to 110 mph downburst winds uprooted a large tree and damaged several others. Two tin cattle sheds had their roofs torn off. Pieces of these roofs were scattered in the nearby fields for over a mile.
June 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Langdon	-	The 110 mph downburst winds continued from west to southwest of Langdon. A barn roof was lifted off and destroyed. This caused the barn loft to collapse, which killed several cows. A large section of the barn roof hit the nearby house, leaving a 3-foot gash in the porch side of the house. Nearby 4,000 bushel steel grain bins were either caved in or demolished.
July 2003	Tornado (F0)	Langdon	-	The tornado touched down in an open field north of Highway 5.
July 2003	Tornado (F0)	Langdon	-	The tornado touched down about 1 mile north of Highway 5.
July 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Langdon	-	Scattered power outages were reported.
August 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Langdon	-	Some crop and tree damage was reported.
July 1999	Hail	Langdon	-	37,000 acres of wheat, canola, barley, and sunflowers were damaged by hail.
July 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Langdon	-	no account filed
June 2007	Hail	Langdon	-	no account filed
June 2006	Hail	Langdon	-	no account filed
July 2006	Hail	Langdon	-	no account filed
July 2006	Hail	Langdon	-	no account filed
August 2006	Hail	Langdon	-	no account filed
August 2006	Hail	Langdon	-	no account filed
August 2006	Hail	Langdon	-	no account filed
April 2005	Hail	Langdon	-	no account filed
September 2005	Hail	Langdon	-	no account filed
August 2004	Hail	Langdon	-	no account filed
July 2004	Hail	Langdon	-	no account filed
July 2004	Hail	Langdon	-	no account filed
July 2003	Hail	Langdon	-	no account filed
July 2003	Hail	Langdon	-	no account filed
July 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Langdon	-	no account filed
July 2003	Hail	Langdon	-	no account filed
July 2003	Hail	Langdon	-	no account filed
July 2003	Hail	Langdon	-	no account filed
August 2002	Hail	Langdon	-	no account filed
August 2002	Hail	Langdon	-	no account filed
August 2002	Hail	Langdon	-	no account filed
August 2002	Hail	Langdon	-	no account filed
August 2001	Hail	Langdon	-	no account filed
August 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Langdon	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Cavalier 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
	Roxy Theatre	0.1 miles	1998

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 89001752 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Cavalier 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.