Hope Lutheran Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.

From the record

“The Hope Lutheran Church, also known as Old Stone Church, is a historic church built in approximately 1898 and located seven miles north of Elgin, North Dakota. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in 1992.”
Wikipedia article Hope Lutheran Church (Elgin, North Dakota), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 3 National Register listings published here for Grant County · listed in 1992 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building, 1 site as contributing to the listing.
Still standing. The Park Service records this property as extant.
Address. W of ND 49 S of Lake Tschida, Elgin, 58533
When was it listed? January 1992
Category. building
Township. Leipzig township
National Register reference number. 91001924 - 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 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Hope Lutheran Church between 2012 and 2020, burning about 61 acres in total. 3 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Natural	3
Smoking	2
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Debris and open burning	1
Arson/incendiarism	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
7 September 2016	Natural	1.0 acres	North Dakota State Forest Service	FISHER
7 September 2016	Natural	2.0 acres	North Dakota State Forest Service	FISHER
2 September 2016	Smoking	1.0 acres	North Dakota State Forest Service	WILL
11 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	North Dakota State Forest Service	ZIMMERMAN
14 August 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	North Dakota State Forest Service	ESLINGER
11 August 2020	Smoking	1.0 acres	North Dakota State Forest Service	KROTH
14 July 2017	Natural	1.0 acres	North Dakota State Forest Service	DAVESPRENGER
5 May 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	North Dakota State Forest Service	KLEIN

Every fire recorded in Grant County

Storms near this property

60 of 68 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Elgin, the town this property stands in, in 68 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 41 hail, 17 thunderstorm wind, 3 flood, 2 flash flood. 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 2014	Hail	Elgin	3 hurt, $750,000	There were numerous reports of golf ball to over baseball size hail across the Lake Tschida and Heart Butte Dam area resulting in significant damage to vehicles, campers, and trailer homes in the recreational area. In addition three people received non-life threatening head injuries from the hail. They were treated at the scene.
July 2010	Hail	Elgin	$2,000,000	This was the second wave of very large hail to hit Elgin during this episode. Homes throughout the city experienced broken windows, damaged siding, and damaged shingles. Vehicles sustained heavy damaged as well.
March 2009	Flood	Elgin	$342,000	The Cannonball River caused extensive flooding due to rain, snow melt, and ice jams. Overland flooding damaged state, county and township roads. Nineteen homes were flooded. Flooding continued into April.
July 2018	Hail	Elgin	$250,000	Significant damage to vehicles and roofs occurred in the city of Elgin.
June 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Elgin	$100,000	On the north side of Lake Tschida a camper was tipped on its side, a pontoon was completely flipped, trees were down, and a wooden swing set was tipped over.
April 2009	Flood	Elgin	$100,000	Additional overland flooding and flooding on the Cannonball River resulted in further flood damage. Flooding in April was less severe than March due to no ice jams.
July 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Elgin	$75,000	Shingles were blown off about one-quarter of a roof on a home. Some plywood was also stripped from the roof. Multiple branches were down around the city of Elgin.
June 2011	Flash Flood	Elgin	$75,000	Very heavy rainfall contributed to flash flooding along Antelope Creek near North Dakota Highway 49. A storm survey crew observed high water marks near the top of barbed wire fences in this area. The Carson Press newspaper reported damage was sustained to rural roads north of Elgin.
July 2010	Lightning	Elgin	$65,000	A lightning strike caused a house fire in Elgin. The lightning bolt struck the chimney of the house, traveling into the basement starting a fire in the electrical wiring on all three levels of the home. When arriving on scene, fire officials reported that a metal antenna on the chimney of the home was glowing bright orange. No injuries or fatalities occurred. The home was determined to be a complete loss.
June 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Elgin	$50,000	A large outbuilding had most of its roof panels blown off.
May 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Elgin	$50,000	no account filed
June 2024	Hail	Elgin	$40,000	Hail fell at a campground at Lake Tschida causing damage to campers.
July 2020	Hail	Elgin	$25,000	Multiple windows were broken on the barn and on garage doors.
July 2007	Hail	Elgin	$20,000	Newspaper reports farmstead sustained damage from storm 6 miles south of Elgin. Major crop damage from hail and winds, trees broken/uprooted, and hail damage to home.
June 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Elgin	-	Law Enforcement reported thunderstorm wind gusts of 60 mph.
July 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Elgin	-	Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated by the public.
June 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Elgin	-	Law enforcement estimated thunderstorm wind gusts of 60 mph.
June 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Elgin	-	Law enforcement estimated thunderstorm wind gusts of 60 mph.
July 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Elgin	-	Thunderstorm wind gust speeds were estimated by the public.
July 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Elgin	-	The public estimated thunderstorm wind gusts of 65 mph.
June 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Elgin	-	Public report of a severe thunderstorm wind gust.
May 2011	Heavy Rain	Elgin	-	A storm total rainfall of 1.50 inches was reported.
July 2010	Hail	Elgin	-	Specific damage estimates from the large hail were not available. This was the first wave of large hail in Elgin for this episode.
July 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Elgin	-	Strong thunderstorm winds accompanied the large hail.
July 2010	Funnel Cloud	Elgin	-	Elgin fire officials who were out spotting saw a funnel cloud just south of Elgin. The funnel did not reach the surface and quickly retreated back into the storm. The funnel cloud was made visible by lightning.
June 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Elgin	-	Quarter size hail along with 0.50 inches of rainfall.
June 2005	Hail	Elgin	-	Nickel to golf ball hail.
July 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Elgin	-	Numerous tree limbs down.
August 2005	Hail	Elgin	-	Report through KFYR-TV.
June 2003	Funnel Cloud	Elgin	-	Several funnel clouds were sighted, one over the city of Elgin and two more 6 and 12 miles north of Elgin.
August 2002	Hail	Elgin	-	Estimated 60 mph winds accompanied the storm which destroyed a silo and damaged several other farm outbuildings. Numerous tree limbs down around Lake Tschida.
July 2001	Hail	Elgin	-	Hail reported over Lake Tschida.
July 2001	Flash Flood	Elgin	-	Flooding of roads started around 9 pm mdt. rainfall totals of 6 to 7 inches reported.
August 1998	Hail	Elgin	-	hail reported over heart butte dam 14 s glen ullin
August 1997	Hail	Elgin	-	hail covered ground
September 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Elgin	-	Thunderstorm winds destroyed a 40' by 60' quonset building.
August 1995	Tornado	Elgin	-	The tornado destroyed an 80-year-old barn. It also carried some hog panels over 100 yards.
July 1994	Hail	Elgin	-	Cropland amounting to 80,000 acres was destroyed.
June 2024	Hail	Elgin	-	no account filed
May 2020	Hail	Elgin	-	no account filed
May 2020	Hail	Elgin	-	no account filed
July 2020	Hail	Elgin	-	no account filed
August 2020	Hail	Elgin	-	no account filed
August 2020	Hail	Elgin	-	no account filed
June 2018	Hail	Elgin	-	no account filed
July 2017	Hail	Elgin	-	no account filed
September 2016	Hail	Elgin	-	no account filed
July 2016	Hail	Elgin	-	no account filed
July 2016	Hail	Elgin	-	no account filed
June 2014	Hail	Elgin	-	no account filed
June 2011	Hail	Elgin	-	no account filed
July 2011	Hail	Elgin	-	no account filed
June 2011	Hail	Elgin	-	no account filed
August 2011	Hail	Elgin	-	no account filed
August 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Elgin	-	no account filed
August 2006	Hail	Elgin	-	no account filed
August 2006	Hail	Elgin	-	no account filed
September 2005	Hail	Elgin	-	no account filed
July 2005	Hail	Elgin	-	no account filed
August 2004	Hail	Elgin	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Grant 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
	Evangelisch Lutheraner Dreieinigkeit Gemeinde	5.0 miles	2009

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 91001924 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Grant 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.