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One of 7 National Register listings published here for Golden Valley County · listed in 2023 · category: District.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Lavina School Historic District
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2023.
The listing
- Address. 214 1st St. East, Lavina, 59046
- When was it listed? June 2023
- Category. district
- Census division. Lavina
- National Register reference number. 100009087 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
7 since 2015Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Lavina School Historic District between 2015 and 2020, burning about 550 acres in total. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28 August 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | 200 acres | Southern Land Office | WOMAN'S POCKET |
| 17 August 2018 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Southern Land Office | BENCH |
| 15 August 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.3 acres | Golden Valley County | LEFELT HANSON |
| 25 July 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | 6.0 acres | Golden Valley County | FDH-MTLG53-374 |
| 25 July 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | 6.0 acres | Golden Valley County | FDH-MTLG53-373 |
| 15 July 2020 | Smoking | 175 acres | Golden Valley County | CHAIN |
| 22 March 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 160 acres | Billings Field Office | EGGE RD |
Storms near this property
38 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lavina, the town this property stands in, in 38 storm reports between 1995 and 2023: 33 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 funnel cloud, 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2005 | Funnel Cloud | Lavina | - | Strongly rotating wall cloud/mesocyclone noted by two observers near the Golden Valley/Musselshell County line 15 miles north of Lavina. The wall cloud extended as much as halfway down to the ground, but no tornado was reported. |
| August 1999 | Funnel Cloud | Lavina | - | Funnel clouds were reported near Lavina. |
| August 1999 | Hail | Lavina | - | Baseball size hail reported. |
| August 1999 | Hail | Lavina | - | Golf ball size hail reported. |
| August 1999 | Hail | Lavina | - | Quarter size hail reported. |
| June 1999 | Hail | Lavina | - | Spotter report of dime size hail. |
| July 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lavina | - | A spotter reported a 60 mph wind gust. |
| June 1995 | Hail | Lavina | - | Two inch hail broke windows on a house and truck. |
| June 1995 | Hail | Lavina | - | Two inch hail broke windows on a house and truck. |
| May 2023 | Hail | Lavina | - | no account filed |
| July 2021 | Hail | Lavina | - | no account filed |
| May 2018 | Hail | Lavina | - | no account filed |
| June 2013 | Hail | Lavina | - | no account filed |
| June 2007 | Hail | Lavina | - | no account filed |
| June 2007 | Hail | Lavina | - | no account filed |
| June 2007 | Hail | Lavina | - | no account filed |
| June 2007 | Hail | Lavina | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Hail | Lavina | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Hail | Lavina | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lavina | - | no account filed |
| August 2003 | Hail | Lavina | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Hail | Lavina | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Lavina | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Lavina | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Lavina | - | no account filed |
| July 2001 | Hail | Lavina | - | no account filed |
| July 2001 | Hail | Lavina | - | no account filed |
| July 2001 | Hail | Lavina | - | no account filed |
| July 2001 | Hail | Lavina | - | no account filed |
| July 2001 | Hail | Lavina | - | no account filed |
| July 2001 | Hail | Lavina | - | no account filed |
| July 2001 | Hail | Lavina | - | no account filed |
| July 2001 | Hail | Lavina | - | no account filed |
| May 2000 | Hail | Lavina | - | no account filed |
| May 2000 | Hail | Lavina | - | no account filed |
| July 2000 | Hail | Lavina | - | no account filed |
| August 1999 | Flash Flood | Lavina | - | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Hail | Lavina | - | no account filed |
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
3 within 8 milesOther 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Lavina State Bank | 0.2 miles | 2007 |
 | Adams Hotel | 0.2 miles | 2005 |
 | Slayton Mercantile Co. | 0.3 miles | 2000 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100009087 in Record Group 79. |
| Golden Valley County | All 7 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.