Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.
From the record
“Post Office-Carrington in Carrington, North Dakota, United States, also known as Carrington Post Office, is a post office building that was built in 1932. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.”
Wikipedia article Carrington Post Office, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 6 National Register listings published here for Foster County · listed in 1989 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.89001754- 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
25 since 2013
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 25 fires within 5 miles of US Post Office-Carrington
between 2013 and 2020, burning about 336 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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
17
Equipment and vehicle use
3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
1
Power generation/transmission/distribution
1
Fireworks
1
Smoking
1
Arson/incendiarism
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
1 working within 5 miles of US Post Office-Carrington: 1 producer.
All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Carrington, the town this property stands in, in 58 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 29 hail, 24 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 2 funnel cloud.
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.
A severe hailstorm that lasted nearly twenty minutes damaged buildings, homes, and vehicles. The large hail put holes in roofs and broke windows. Fifty percent of the homes in Carrington were damaged. Three golfers were caught in the storm, their injuries ranged from cuts and bruises to a broken hand.
Severe thunderstorm wind gusts resulted in damage to a storage building near Carrington, along with downed power lines. Based on pictures and reports from the Foster County Emergency Manager, it was determined that damage was consistent with straight line winds and not a tornado.
Severe thunderstorm wind gusts resulted in roof damage to a farm house and damage to a garage. Based on pictures and reports from the Foster County Emergency Manager, it was determined that damage was consistent with straight line winds and not a tornado.
Severe thunderstorm wind gusts resulted in damage to grain bins near Carrington. Based on pictures and reports from the Foster County Emergency Manager, it was determined that damage was consistent with straight line winds and not a tornado.
Severe thunderstorm wind gusts resulted in roof damage to a feed building near Carrington. Based on pictures and reports from the Foster County Emergency Manager, it was determined that damage was consistent with straight line winds and not a tornado.
A couple of trees were uprooted and a fence was blown over at a park on the north side of Carrington. At CrossRoads Golf Course, multiple tree branches were blown down.
A severe hailstorm that lasted nearly twenty minutes damaged buildings, homes, and vehicles. The large hail put holes in roofs and broke windows. Fifty percent of the homes in Carrington were damaged. Three golfers were caught in the storm, their injuries ranged from cuts and bruises to a broken hand.
A severe hailstorm that lasted nearly twenty minutes damaged buildings, homes, and vehicles. The large hail put holes in roofs and broke windows. Fifty percent of the homes in Carrington were damaged. Three golfers were caught in the storm, their injuries ranged from cuts and bruises to a broken hand.
A severe hailstorm that lasted nearly twenty minutes damaged buildings, homes, and vehicles. The large hail put holes in roofs and broke windows. Fifty percent of the homes in Carrington were damaged. Three golfers were caught in the storm, their injuries ranged from cuts and bruises to a broken hand.
A severe hailstorm that lasted nearly twenty minutes damaged buildings, homes, and vehicles. The large hail put holes in roofs and broke windows. Fifty percent of the homes in Carrington were damaged. Three golfers were caught in the storm, their injuries ranged from cuts and bruises to a broken hand.
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
3 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.
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.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
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.
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