{"id":311,"slug":"standing-rock-state-historic-site-nome-north-dakota","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["On a bluff above the Sheyenne River in Ransom County, the state of North Dakota preserves four connected burial mounds and the prominent boulder that gave the site its name. The mounds are earthworks — raised graves built by the region's earlier inhabitants, older than any written record the file works from."]},{"heading":"The rock","paragraphs":["The Standing Rock boulder — a striking stone set apart from the mounds — became the landmark the site is filed under, visible above the river valley and eventually the namesake of the state historic site. The Sheyenne valley carries several such mound groups; this one survives in public keeping. The mounds and the rock are both on the record; who raised the earthworks is a question the documentation leaves to archaeology rather than legend.","Four connected mounds in a row is not a common survival — most of the region's earthworks were plowed under in the settlement decades. These kept their shape because the bluff kept its owner: the state."]},{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["There are no haunting claims in the file, and none are needed. A cemetery that outlasted the language of its dead is its own kind of record — the archive files it under ground that was consecrated before the paperwork existed, kept now as one of the few such sites the state protects."]}],"name":"Standing Rock State Historic Site","aliases":[],"type":"HISTORIC_CEMETERY","type_label":"Historic Cemetery","cats":["ARCHAEOLOGICAL_CEMETERY","CULTURAL_LANDMARK"],"groups":["cemeteries"],"desc":"Historic cemetery documented in historical or public cultural sources.","full_desc":"A historic cemetery in Nome, North Dakota, Standing Rock State Historic Site is filed here for what the record attaches to it. Historic cemetery documented in historical or public cultural sources. HauntHunt files it with archaeological cemeteries and cultural landmarks. The dossier holds 1 documented fact — a documented spine with no haunting reports attached. The site is open to visitors.","address":"54th St SE","city":"Nome","county":"Ransom","state":"North Dakota","postal":null,"region":"Midwest","lat":46.623399,"lon":-97.908395,"coord_kind":"EXACT","status":"HISTORIC_SITE","access":"PUBLIC","access_notes":"Road access depends on weather. Remain in visitor areas and do not disturb burials.","ownership":null,"website":null,"phone":null,"year_built":null,"year_opened":null,"year_closed":null,"year_demolished":null,"designation":null,"current_use":null,"research_notes":"Sacred burial landscape included for public cultural history. No haunting or supernatural claim inferred from Indigenous burials.","stage":"SOURCE_RESEARCH","quality":{"level":"MEDIUM","score":71.4,"dims":{"location_confidence":0.75,"identity_confidence":0.65,"historical_confidence":0.8,"source_quality":0.6,"paranormal_claim_provenance":null,"coordinate_confidence":0.85,"current_access_confidence":0.7,"freshness":0.65}},"claims":[],"history":[{"description":"Four connected burial mounds overlook the Sheyenne River; a prominent boulder gave the site its name. Standing Rock State Historic Site's past is on record — the entry belongs to the verified layer beneath whatever lore attaches. The press recorded it; the detail stands as reported history. 'Standing Rock State Historic Site' documents the entry. The entry's timeline holds it; the lore holds the rest.","evidence":"MEDIA_REPORTED","date_start":null,"date_end":null,"confidence":null,"source":{"name":"Standing Rock State Historic Site","url":"https://www.ndtourism.com/nome/attractions-entertainment/free-attractions/standing-rock-state-historic-site","publisher":"North Dakota Tourism Division","type":"TOURISM","authority":3}}],"legends":[],"entities":[],"events":[],"investigations":[],"encounters":[],"media":[],"persons":[],"visitor":{"admission_fee":"Free","parking":"Gravel lot; steep access road.","last_verified_at":"2026-09-14T10:36:19+00:00","source":{"name":"Standing Rock State Historic Site","url":"https://www.ndtourism.com/nome/attractions-entertainment/free-attractions/standing-rock-state-historic-site","publisher":"North Dakota Tourism Division","type":"TOURISM","authority":3}},"sources":[{"name":"Standing Rock State Historic Site","url":"https://www.ndtourism.com/nome/attractions-entertainment/free-attractions/standing-rock-state-historic-site","publisher":"North Dakota Tourism Division","type":"TOURISM","authority":3}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":null,"counts":{"claims":0,"history":1,"legends":0,"entities":0,"sources":1}}