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Photograph of St. Joseph's Chapel
Photograph by Zlew42, CC0 1.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

St. Joseph's Chapel

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.

From the record

“Joseph's Chapel in Minto, North Dakota, United States, includes Stick/Eastlake, Colonial Revival, and Late Gothic Revival architecture. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.”

Wikipedia article St. Joseph's Chapel (Minto, North Dakota), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 15 National Register listings published here for Walsh County · listed in 1994 · 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. Between I-29 and the Red R., E of Minto, Pulaski Township, Minto, 56744
  • When was it listed? June 1994
  • Category. building
  • Township. Pulaski township
  • Architectural style. Stick style
  • National Register reference number. 94000556 - 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

6 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of St. Joseph's Chapel between 2016 and 2019, burning about 9 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 burning3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3

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
8 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceI 29 MM 172
5 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest Service201913
31 May 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest Service201908
21 May 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest Service201905
1 May 2016Debris and open burning3.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceLESSARD
26 March 2016Debris and open burning2.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceI 29

Every fire recorded in Walsh County

Storms near this property

20 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Minto, the town this property stands in, in 20 storm reports between 1993 and 2023: 10 hail, 7 thunderstorm wind, 2 flood, 1 flash 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
April 2023FloodMinto$1,000,000Minto gage, on the Forest River. Crested at 9.25 ft, on April 17th at 08:30.||NOTE: Damages dollar amount is for the entire county. Not separated by specific river basin or damage type.
May 1993HailMinto$50,000A coal shed was blown down in Ardoch.
August 1999Thunderstorm WindMinto$15,000The north wall and a west facing garage door were blown down by the wind and a tree fell on a garage.
July 2001Thunderstorm WindMinto$500Numerous branches were blown down.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindMinto-The wind gust was measured by a personal weather station.
September 2018Thunderstorm WindMinto-A few 4 to 6 inch diameter tree branches were blown down. A nearby personal weather station reported a 55 mph wind gust.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindMinto-The winds were estimated by firefighters in a truck.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindMinto-Large tree branches were blown down and crops were flattened.
July 2015FloodMinto-Ditches and fields were flooded between Minto and Warsaw.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindMinto-Trees were snapped in the Minto park.
July 2005HailMinto-This was the second time golfball sized hail fell, knocking the grain crop flat.
July 1997Flash FloodMinto-8.2 inches of rain caused flooding in low-lying areas.
June 2020HailMinto-no account filed
June 2020HailMinto-no account filed
September 2018HailMinto-no account filed
July 2005HailMinto-no account filed
July 2001HailMinto-no account filed
August 2001HailMinto-no account filed
June 1997HailMinto-no account filed
June 1997HailMinto-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Walsh 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 PropertyDistance Listed
St. Stanislaus Church Historic District5.1 miles1979

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 94000556 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Walsh CountyAll 15 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.