Ludwig and Christina Welk Homestead

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.

From the record

“The Ludwig and Christina Welk Homestead built in 1893 is an historic farm house located at 845 88th Street, South East in Strasburg, North Dakota. It is also known as the Lawrence Welk Birthplace, the Mike Welk Farm and ND SITS 32 EM 46.”
Wikipedia article Ludwig and Christina Welk Homestead, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 6 National Register listings published here for Emmons County · listed in 1993 · category: Building.

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

The listing

Listed as. Welk, Ludwig and Christina, Homestead - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 2.5 NW of Strasburg, Strasburg, 58573
When was it listed? October 1993
Category. building
Unorganized territory. South Emmons
National Register reference number. 93001102 - 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 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Ludwig and Christina Welk Homestead between 2013 and 2020, burning about 4 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	3
Equipment and vehicle use	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
12 July 2013	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	North Dakota State Forest Service	RODNEY ZAHN
2 May 2020	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	North Dakota State Forest Service	502
2 May 2020	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	North Dakota State Forest Service	0502
3 October 2020	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	North Dakota State Forest Service	103

Every fire recorded in Emmons County

Storms near this property

42 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Strasburg, the town this property stands in, in 42 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 25 hail, 11 thunderstorm wind, 4 tornado, 2 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
August 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Strasburg	$200,000	A storage building was destroyed and two others were severely damaged. A well built hardware store awning was damaged by a falling tree. Several trees were uprooted, and tree limbs around 13 inches in diameter were snapped.
July 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Strasburg	$200,000	Downburst winds of 87 kts (100 mph) caused widespread damage to numerous weak or high profile buildings in parts of southeast Emmons county. Even though there was heavy property damage, there were no fatalities or injuries. No one reported a tornado although there were unconfirmed reports of funnel clouds. Two trailer houses near Strasburg were destroyed as well as grain bins, pole barns, and farm machinery. The county emergency manager reported no damage in the city of Strasburg, just heavy rain and gusty winds. Monetary damage estimates are likely underestimated.
July 1996	Tornado (F0)	Strasburg	$25,000	no account filed
May 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Strasburg	$20,000	Twenty inch in diameter trees were reported blown down from severe thunderstorm wind gusts.
July 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Strasburg	$15,000	Several large tree branches broke in the city of Strasburg. A pay-loader had to be used to remove some branches.
June 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Strasburg	$10,000	Tree branches of three inches in diameter were down in Strasburg.
July 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Strasburg	-	Wind gusts to 60 mph were estimated by a trained spotter.
July 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Strasburg	-	A sheriff deputy estimated thunderstorm wind gusts of at least 60 mph.
August 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Strasburg	-	Thunderstorm wind gusts of 70 mph were estimated by a trained spotter.
June 2005	Hail	Strasburg	-	Wind gust up to 50 mph accompanied the storm and hail.
June 2005	Hail	Strasburg	-	Reported by a NWS cooperative observer.
June 2005	Tornado (F0)	Strasburg	-	Tornado briefly touched down in open country near Highway 1804. Nothing damaged.
June 2005	Hail	Strasburg	-	Nickel to quarter size hail fell in an area from Westfield to Strasburg. The hail wiped out the sunflower crop. Two foot drifts of hail was reported when the storm ended. The hail also knocked out some windows.
June 2005	Hail	Strasburg	-	Heavy rain accompanied the hail. Reported by a NWS cooperative observer.
June 2003	Tornado (F0)	Strasburg	-	Weak funnel briefly touched down in rural farm field.
August 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Strasburg	-	Large tree branches down.
July 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Strasburg	-	Tree limbs of 3 to 4 inch diameter down.
August 1998	Hail	Strasburg	-	lasted 20 minuates
October 1994	Tornado (F0)	Strasburg	-	The path and length were estimated.
May 2024	Hail	Strasburg	-	no account filed
May 2024	Hail	Strasburg	-	no account filed
July 2022	Hail	Strasburg	-	no account filed
June 2020	Hail	Strasburg	-	no account filed
August 2019	Hail	Strasburg	-	no account filed
August 2016	Funnel Cloud	Strasburg	-	no account filed
August 2016	Hail	Strasburg	-	no account filed
August 2016	Hail	Strasburg	-	no account filed
June 2015	Hail	Strasburg	-	no account filed
June 2015	Hail	Strasburg	-	no account filed
June 2013	Hail	Strasburg	-	no account filed
June 2011	Hail	Strasburg	-	no account filed
July 2008	Hail	Strasburg	-	no account filed
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Strasburg	-	no account filed
July 2008	Hail	Strasburg	-	no account filed
June 2006	Hail	Strasburg	-	no account filed
May 2005	Hail	Strasburg	-	no account filed
June 2005	Hail	Strasburg	-	no account filed
June 2005	Hail	Strasburg	-	no account filed
August 2003	Hail	Strasburg	-	no account filed
August 2003	Hail	Strasburg	-	no account filed
July 2003	Hail	Strasburg	-	no account filed
July 2001	Funnel Cloud	Strasburg	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Emmons 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
	Saints Peter and Paul Catholic Church Complex	2.4 miles	1986

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 93001102 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Emmons County	All 6 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.