Norway Lutheran Church and Cemetery

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.

From the record

“The Norway Lutheran Church and Cemetery was located 10 miles from south of Denbigh, North Dakota and were listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in 1994. The NRHP listing includes the main church structure, a cemetery, and two contributing privies to the west and rear of the church, all situated on a 4.4 acres (1.8 ha) site.”
Wikipedia article Norway Lutheran Church and Cemetery, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 10 National Register listings published here for McHenry 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 listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 3 buildingss, 1 site as contributing to the listing.
Address. 10 mi. S of Denbigh, S of the Souris R., Denbigh, 58744
When was it listed? October 1994
Category. building
Township. Villard township
Architectural style. Gothic Revival
National Register reference number. 94001216 - 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

3 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Norway Lutheran Church and Cemetery between 2005 and 2016, burning about 202 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	1
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Recreation and ceremony	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
4 August 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	North Dakota State Forest Service	not named
11 March 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	North Dakota State Forest Service	ROBERT ?PESTER?
26 January 2005	Recreation and ceremony	200 acres	North Dakota State Forest Service	not named

Every fire recorded in McHenry County

Storms near this property

9 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Denbigh, the town this property stands in, in 9 storm reports between 2007 and 2025: 8 hail, 1 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
July 2010	Funnel Cloud	Denbigh	-	A funnel cloud briefly formed, then dissipated.
September 2025	Hail	Denbigh	-	no account filed
July 2024	Hail	Denbigh	-	no account filed
July 2024	Hail	Denbigh	-	no account filed
July 2024	Hail	Denbigh	-	no account filed
July 2024	Hail	Denbigh	-	no account filed
June 2016	Hail	Denbigh	-	no account filed
July 2016	Hail	Denbigh	-	no account filed
June 2007	Hail	Denbigh	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in McHenry 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 record	The nomination case file for reference 94001216 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
McHenry County	All 10 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.