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St. Alban's Episcopal Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.

From the record

“Alban's Episcopal Church is an historic stone Late Gothic Revival-style Episcopal church located on the southwest corner of Hammond and Eastern avenues in Lidgerwood, North Dakota. On December 3, 1992, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places.”

Wikipedia article St. Alban's Episcopal Church (Lidgerwood, North Dakota), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 12 National Register listings published here for Richland 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 as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. Jct. of Hammond and Eastern Aves., SW corner, Lidgerwood, 58053
  • When was it listed? December 1992
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. Episcopal Churches of North Dakota MPS
  • City. Lidgerwood city
  • National Register reference number. 92001607 - 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

4 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of St. Alban's Episcopal Church between 2004 and 2016, burning about 6 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 burning2
Arson/incendiarism1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
7 August 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceAIRPORT FIRE
12 August 2004Arson/incendiarismunder an acreTewaukon National Wildlife RefugeNOVETZKE
15 May 2016Debris and open burning4.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceWETTSTEIN
22 April 2016Debris and open burning1.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServicePODLISKA

Every fire recorded in Richland County

Storms near this property

50 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lidgerwood, the town this property stands in, in 50 storm reports between 1993 and 2024: 30 hail, 15 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 flood. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 1993Thunderstorm WindLidgerwood$50,000Strong winds uprooted trees 30 inches in diameter and 40 feet tall. The winds also flattened garages, and demolished barns and sheds.
June 1999Thunderstorm WindLidgerwood$30,000A 108x50 foot storage shed was picked up by the wind and thrown into a grove of trees. Some debris was thrown 1000 feet away.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindLidgerwood$20,000A large tree was blown onto a house. Other trees were uprooted.
June 2008HailLidgerwood$10,000The hail occurred for a few minutes from 10:57 AM to 11:00 AM CDT.
August 2011Flash FloodLidgerwood$5,000Heavy rain quickly filled ditches and covered several rural roads.
July 2002Thunderstorm WindLidgerwood$5,000Shingles were torn from a roof.
July 2002Thunderstorm WindLidgerwood$500Trees were blown down.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindLidgerwood-CO-OP Observer reports 8 to 10 inch tree branches down in Lidgerwood.
August 2023HailLidgerwood-Public reports golf ball-sized hail 5 SSW of Lidgerwood.
July 2022HailLidgerwood-Received a report of nickel to quarter size hail, smaller at first then a few larger ones. A supercell thunderstorm with a well-developed wall cloud tracked through central and eastern Dexter Township, into central Liberty Grove Township. Episodes of smaller hail occurred across the area, with occasional larger hail.
October 2021Thunderstorm WindLidgerwood-A trained storm spotter reported an estimated 70 mph wind gust.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindLidgerwood-Several trees were blown down in shelterbelts.
May 2019HailLidgerwood-Nickel to quarter sized hail fell.
August 2016Thunderstorm WindLidgerwood-Several large tree branches were blown down around Lidgerwood.
July 2013Heavy RainLidgerwood-The heavy rain cause minor street flooding in Lidgerwood.
June 2012Thunderstorm WindLidgerwood-Several three to five inch diameter trees were snapped off.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindLidgerwood-The tops of trees were taken off.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindLidgerwood-Numerous 4 inch diameter tree branches were blown down.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindLidgerwood-Several large tree branches and a few large tree limbs were broken down around Lidgerwood. Peak winds were estimated at 60 to 70 mph across Grant and Moran townships.
August 2010Tornado (EF0)Lidgerwood-This tornado began in Sargent County at 834 pm CDTcdt, where it had an approximate 1 mile path. It continued in Richland County for about one additional mile, for a total path length of about 2 miles. Peak winds were estimated at 80 mph.
May 2007FloodLidgerwood-Residents built a 2 foot high dike on the south edge of town to prevent an overflowing slough from spreading into town.
April 2006HailLidgerwood-The hail fell along the Richland and Sargent County line.
June 2006Thunderstorm WindLidgerwood-Several trees were blown down.
September 2005HailLidgerwood-Lightning and very heavy rain was reported along with some brief power outages.
September 2005Flash FloodLidgerwood-Roughly 3.5 inches of rain fell in a short amount of time, causing fields and farm yards to flood. One basement also flooded.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindLidgerwood-Tree branches were blown down.
August 2019HailLidgerwood-no account filed
September 2014HailLidgerwood-no account filed
May 2012HailLidgerwood-no account filed
June 2012HailLidgerwood-no account filed
May 2009HailLidgerwood-no account filed
April 2006HailLidgerwood-no account filed
June 2006HailLidgerwood-no account filed
August 2006HailLidgerwood-no account filed
June 2005HailLidgerwood-no account filed
June 2005HailLidgerwood-no account filed
September 2005HailLidgerwood-no account filed
May 2004HailLidgerwood-no account filed
June 2004HailLidgerwood-no account filed
July 2003HailLidgerwood-no account filed
April 2002HailLidgerwood-no account filed
June 2002HailLidgerwood-no account filed
June 2002HailLidgerwood-no account filed
July 2002HailLidgerwood-no account filed
May 1999HailLidgerwood-no account filed
June 1997HailLidgerwood-no account filed
May 1996HailLidgerwood-no account filed
May 1996HailLidgerwood-no account filed
July 1994HailLidgerwood-no account filed
August 1994HailLidgerwood-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Richland 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 92001607 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Richland CountyAll 12 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.