Built in 1907 (Tudor Revival architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.
From the record
“Rugby station is a train station in Rugby, North Dakota served by Amtrak's Empire Builder line. The station was built in 1907 as the Great Northern Passenger Depot.”
Wikipedia article Rugby station (North Dakota), CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 4 National Register listings published here for Pierce County · listed in 1991 · category: Building · built in 1907, Tudor Revival architecture, by Great Northern Railway.
National Register reference number.91001466- 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
27 since 2005
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 27 fires within 5 miles of Great Northern Passenger Depot
between 2005 and 2020, burning about 630 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
16
Debris and open burning
8
Railroad operations and maintenance
2
Smoking
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
2 workings within 5 miles of Great Northern Passenger Depot: 2 producers.
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
Rugby, the town this property stands in, in 64 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 29 hail, 27 thunderstorm wind, 3 tornado, 3 funnel cloud.
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.
Large hail occurred in the city of Rugby, with the largest hail falling near the intersection of US Highway 2 and ND Highway 3 on the south end of town. Damage occurred to structures and automobiles, and south of town to crops.
A brief tornado touched down five miles south of Rugby on the leading edge of a linear severe thunderstorm. This tornado was within a larger area of straight line thunderstorm winds which also caused damage. Several buildings sustained damage or were destroyed by this tornado, along with trees, and three power poles were snapped along North Dakota Highway 3 where the tornado crossed. A semi truck was picked up along Highway 3 and thrown into the ditch. There were no injuries or deaths reported with this tornado. The tornado damage corresponded to EF1 on the Enhanced Fujita Scale. From that it was determined that wind speeds with this tornado were on the order of 100 miles per hour.
Very strong straight line winds occurred with a thunderstorm that moved from west of Rugby into Rugby. The strongest wind gust reported was an instantaneous, non-averaged measurement of 104 mph taken three miles west of Rugby by a research team from the National Severe Storms Laboratory, which would correlate to an estimated 87 mph 5-second average gust based upon past published research. Four miles west-northwest of Rugby a large, older barn collapsed. In Rugby, large evergreen trees were uprooted at the cemetery at the northwest end of town.
Several reports of high wind and damage were received from the Rugby area. Trees were uprooted, including a 60 foot tall spruce, numerous branches were broken, and a large shop was damaged around five miles south of Rugby. There was a tornado within the high wind area. See the tornado entry for Pierce County.
60 mph wind at 735 PM CDT increased to 71 mph at 739 PM CDT and maxed out at 95 mph at 742 PM CDT. Rugby also had one inch of rain from the storm and pea sized hail that covered the ground. Numerous tree branches down in the city.
lightning struck 5 N of Rugby. 19 head of cattle took shelter from the storm under a tree. The tree got struck by lightning, killing all cattle huddled under the tree
Nickel to ping pong ball size hail was reported in the city of Rugby, and lasted for around 20 minutes. No report of damage was received from this event.
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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