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Marshall County, South Dakota

22 topographic sheets cover 15 settlements here, and 6 properties are on the National Register of Historic Places.

Research this county

From the record

6 National Register listings published here.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

South Dakota within the United States
Marshall County within South Dakota

What the record shows

  • 97 topographic sheet readings cover the county's settlements.
  • 6 properties here are on the National Register of Historic Places: 5 buildings and 1 district.
  • 1 of the 6 listings was added during the 1970s.
  • The Geographic Names Information System records 15 populated places in this county; 15 are covered by at least one topographic sheet.

Places on the National Register

6

Every property in this county listed on the National Register of Historic Places, with the year it was listed and the federal nomination document.

Photograph PropertyType ListedReference
Britton Clinic and Hospitalbuilding200808000051
First Presbyterian Church of Langfordbuilding199191001616
Fort Sissetondistrict197373001745
William T. and Rebecca Glendenning Housebuilding200808000052
Marshall County Courthousebuilding200606000047
Palestine Evangelical Lutheran Churchbuilding198282003931

Wildfire, 1992 to 2020

100 fires

Every wildfire the federal occurrence database records inside this county: 100 of them, burning about 4,015 acres. 1 started naturally and 1 was recorded as arson. Each settlement page carries the fires within five miles of it.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined50
Debris and open burning28
Equipment and vehicle use10
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Recreation and ceremony2
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Arson/incendiarism1
Fireworks1
Smoking1
Natural1

The five largest, by the area the report gives. None of them was recorded as arson.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
3 May 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined650 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionBRITTON
30 September 2020Equipment and vehicle use450 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionHABITAT FOREVER
30 April 1992Debris and open burning400 acresSisseton Agencynot named
5 May 2008Debris and open burning214 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named
19 April 2008Debris and open burning208 acresSisseton AgencySOUTH RED IRON
12 April 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined200 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionSUNSET COLONY
11 May 2009Debris and open burning150 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named
14 September 2013Debris and open burning150 acresMarshallART BOTTOM

Every settlement page carries the fires within five miles of it - see the settlement index below.

Storms, 1957 to 2025

60 of 346 shown

The NOAA Storm Events Database holds 346 reports for this county, causing no deaths, 1 injury and about $1,311,860 in recorded property damage. Each settlement page carries the reports that name it.

Kind of event Reports
Hail161
Thunderstorm Wind130
Tornado22
Flood15
Flash Flood12
Lightning5
Funnel Cloud1

The most serious of them, by death, then injury, then recorded damage. The accounts are quoted exactly as the forecast office filed them.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 1968Tornado (F2)not stated1 hurt, $250,000no account filed
June 1978Tornadonot stated$250,000no account filed
June 1961Tornado (F2)not stated$250,000no account filed
April 2023FloodNewark$150,000Many roadways were flooded, including Marshall County Road 11 south of Amherst.
April 2019FloodNewark$143,300no account filed
March 2011FloodNewark$100,000Snow melt brought flooding across much of Marshall county. Many roads along with crop and pastureland were flooded. The lake levels also rose across the county. In the early morning hours of March 18th, the creek northeast of Langford became blocked by snow and ice, causing water to run into Langford streets and the house basements. Some people had a couple of feet of water in their basements. The basements of at least two homes in Langford had collapsed. The water receded during the late afternoon.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindSpain$80,000Eighty mph winds damaged a home and equipment on a farm.
August 1999LightningLangford$50,000Lightning struck the steeple of the Lutheran Church starting a fire. As a result, the church and most of its contents were destroyed.
June 1981Tornado (F1)not stated$25,000no account filed
August 2014Flash FloodLangford$5,000Very heavy rains caused flash flooding which washed out a culvert resulting in a road closure.
May 1994HailHillhead$5,000no account filed
July 1964Tornado (F1)not stated$2,500no account filed
August 2014Flash FloodLangford$1,000Nearly 6 inches of rain resulted in water in the basement along with a large amount of standing water in the fields.
June 1957Tornado (F0)not stated$30no account filed
August 1957Tornadonot stated$30no account filed
June 2025Flash FloodLake City-Marshall county emergency management reports at least 8 cases of water over the roadways across southern Marshall county.
August 2025Thunderstorm WindNewark-A farmer reported that thunderstorm winds caused a large limb to fall from his tree.
August 2025Flash FloodAmherst-The Marshall county Emergency Manager reported street flooding in and around Britton. The CoCoRaHS observer 1 mile south southwest of Kidder recorded 3.31 inches of moisture.
August 2025Thunderstorm WindAmherst-Branches were reported down by thunderstorm winds west of Britton.
August 2025Flash FloodBritton-Total rainfall in Britton over a 48-hour period exceeded 4.5 inches, overwhelming city drainage systems. This caused flooding in town, with up to six inches of water moving over roads and into some buildings and basements.
August 2025Thunderstorm WindAmherst-Winds in excess of 70 mph were measured at Sunset Colony.
August 2025HailBritton-Hail up to 1.5 inches in diameter was reported.
August 2025FloodLangford-Marshall County Emergency Management relayed that multiple rural roads and intersections have running water across them from recent heavy rainfall in and around the towns of Langford, Amherst, Britton and Newport Colony.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindBritton-Emergency management reported that a tower had collapsed at the ballpark.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindLake City-Emergency management reported crop damage due to thunderstorm winds.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindVeblen-Emergency management reported damage to a dairy barn roof due to thunderstorm winds.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindLake City-A resident estimated 70 mph thunderstorm wind gusts at their home.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindLake City-A weather station from the South Dakota Department of Transportation measured a wind gust of 60 mph at Lake City.
July 2023HailEden-Hail, some larger than a quarter size, nearly covered the ground.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindLake City-A member of the public was contacted and they estimated the wind speed at 65 mph.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindLake City-The individual reported an estimated peak thunderstorm wind speed of 60 mph.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindLake City-A trained spotter reported quarter size hail.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindBritton-Estimated 65 mph winds toppled a tree over.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindLake City-Several large branches were downed at Roy Lake by estimated 60 mph winds.
October 2021Tornado (EF0)Langford-The tornado touched down very briefly.
August 2020Tornado (EF0)Lake City-A tornado touched down briefly on Roy Lake.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindLake City-Sixty mph winds were estimated.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindKidder-Sixty mph winds were estimated.
March 2019FloodNewark-Several county and township roads were flooded and closed. Three homes in Langford ended up with water in their basements due to a fast rising creek.
July 2019HailLake City-Quarter size hail broke through the skylight of a camper.
August 2019Tornado (EF0)Lake City-A tornado developed over Roy Lake and came onshore on the southeast side of the lake. The tornado flipped over a pontoon, broke several tree branches, and split a couple trees. It then caused minor damage to an outbuilding before producing extensive tree damage on the south side of a golf course. One piece of lawn furniture was found in a tree over 150 yards away from the original location. Large tree branches were also tossed over 60 yards across fairways on the golf course. In addition to the tornado damage, straight line winds tipped over a camper and caused tree damage in other locations in and around the golf course.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindSpain-Estimated sixty mph winds downed several branches.
June 2017Tornado (EF0)Eden-A brief tornado touched down and caused the collapse of the entire roof of a barn. Debris was lofted 500 feet to the northeast. Minor roof damage also occurred to a second outbuilding along with minor tree damage and damage to the siding of a house.
August 2016Thunderstorm WindHillhead-Estimated ninety mph winds broke off many trees along with collapsing a barn.
August 2016Thunderstorm WindVeblen-Sixty mph winds brought several tree branches down.
August 2016Thunderstorm WindHillhead-Ninety mph winds brought down nine power poles.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindLake City-Sixty mph winds were estimated.
July 2015Tornado (EF0)Langford-A tornado touched down east northeast of Langford. The tornado damaged a cornfield and moved many hay bales.
June 2014Tornado (EF1)Spain-A tornado touched down about 9 miles northeast of Langford with a large metal garage sustaining roof damage with a large section of the southern roof blown off. A separate smaller and older wooden garage was almost completely destroyed with debris blown up to 100 yards to the east and southeast. A few trees also sustained broken limbs.
June 2013Flash FloodVeblen-Heavy rain of three to four inches brought many flooded roads in and around Veblen.
June 2013Flash FloodHillhead-The road west of Veblen had water flowing over it with one section covered up to 100 feet.
September 2013Thunderstorm WindNewark-A 40 foot tall tree was snapped at the base and corn was flattened by seventy mph winds.
July 2011Flash FloodMarlow-Heavy rain flooded several roads and washed out a culvert.
July 2011Tornado (EF0)Spain-A tornado touched downed about seven miles southeast of Britton. The tornado downed many trees as it tracked east northeast for about a mile.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindLake City-A large tree was downed by seventy mph winds.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindMarlow-Sixty mph winds downed several large tree limbs.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindBritton Muni Arpt-Eighty mph winds downed four large evergreens along with downing many large tree branches. Also, a shed was destroyed with another one damaged.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindSpain-Eighty mph winds downed several trees, moved many hay bales, and damaged the shingles on the home.
June 2011Tornado (EF0)Eden-A tornado touched down briefly northeast of Eden. No damaged was reported.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindBritton-Seventy mph winds downed several trees in Britton. The grain elevator was also damaged in Britton.

Mines and quarries

2 recorded

The Survey's mineral resources record lists 2 workings inside this county. 1 still produces and 1 is closed or unrecorded. Each settlement page carries the workings within five miles of it.

Commodity Workings
Sand and Gravel, Construction2

The least common of them first, because a county's hundredth gravel pit says nothing its first ten did not.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Benke PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Vrchota Sand & Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every populated place in the county

15

Named settlements recorded in the Geographic Names Information System, each with the topographic sheets covering it. Villages, hamlets and abandoned places alike. Each is shown with the nearest named watercourse or landform and the survey quadrangle it falls on.

Provenance

  • Topographic sheets. USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection, county index, measured from the bulk metadata.
  • Fire insurance maps. Library of Congress Sanborn collection, faceted to this county.
  • Photographs. Each place queried individually against the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs search.
  • 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.
  • Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
  • 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.