Mayville, ND: Big Wood Grain Elevator Burns

(Satellite)

Chris Hennebry posted four photos with the comment: "The smoldering rubble of one of the grain elevators that burned down in Mayville ND earlier this week."
[Posted Nov 22, 2025]

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Dennis DeBruler commented on Chris' post
Wow. That was a big wood elevator, https://maps.app.goo.gl/G6MzYE221LFV9Wob9.

This town has a lot of grain elevators and some fertilizer supply companies. From north to south, these are satellite images of the companies I found.

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This is what is in the background of Photo 1 above.

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This is the one that burned. I wonder who receives tank cars.

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While verifying that the United Grain Corp. elevator has a fall protector, I noticed that it also has a large wood elevator. The one that burned is in the left background of this view. This elevator has four different storage technologies: wood, slip-form, jump form and steel bins.

Street View, Jul 2025

Is this more of United Grain Corp.? I used a street view to determine that the two round foundations were for bins that were removed since Oct 2021.

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In the lower-right corner we see that this Kelley Bean elevator gets carload rail service.

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The railroad was the Great Northern.

1952/67 Grand Forks Quad @ 250,000

A lot of grain elevators explains why BNSF still operates the former-GN route to the north. And BNSF maintains this bridge trestle just for Kelley Bean.

BNSF