Built in 1911 (Prairie School architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.
From the record
“The Lake Andes Carnegie Library, in Lake Andes, South Dakota in Charles Mix County, South Dakota, is a Carnegie library which was built in 1911. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.”
Wikipedia article Lake Andes Carnegie Library, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 15 National Register listings published here for Charles Mix County · listed in 2000 · category: Building · built in 1911, Prairie School architecture.
National Register reference number.00000598- 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
85 since 1999
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 85 fires within 5 miles of Lake Andes Carnegie Library
between 1999 and 2020, burning about 932 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 7 were 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
31
Fireworks
14
Debris and open burning
13
Arson/incendiarism
7
Recreation and ceremony
5
Natural
4
Misuse of fire by a minor
3
Smoking
3
Equipment and vehicle use
2
Firearms and explosives use
1
Other causes
1
Power generation/transmission/distribution
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Lake Andes, the town this property stands in, in 52 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 35 hail, 11 thunderstorm wind, 3 tornado, 2 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.
Heavy rainfall of up to 6 inches caused widespread flash flooding of numerous roads, residences, fields, and other low areas, causing damage to and forcing evacuation of numerous residences. Many of the flooded roads were washed out. The Yankton Sioux reservation including the town of Marty was especially hard hit, with the tribal headquarters made unusable, and 63 families displaced from their homes.Flood damage was estimated at one million dollars by the county emergency manager.
Thunderstorm winds damaged trees and power lines, with numerous power poles reported down. Farm machinery and roofs were damaged, including a roof blown off a home. A mobile home was overturned. Crop damage was reported, but the amount of crop damage was not known.
Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including large limbs broken off. Some vehicles were dented by tree debris. Power lines were blown down and a power outage was reported.
Thunderstorm winds caused widespread tree damage, including large limbs blown down. A car window was smashed by one falling limb. The winds also blew down power lines, causing a power outage.
Lightning struck and splintered a large and old tree in the yard of a home. Most of the tree remained standing, but it was feared the tree would not survive.
Large hail covered the ground and caused severe crop damage in a 15 mile wide area over southern and eastern Charles Mix County. About 60,000 acres of crops were damaged or destroyed. Damage to soybean crops was severe, but in many places the beans were replanted as it was still early enough in the growing season. Much of the corn that was damaged was reported to be recovering in the weeks after the storm. Wheat crops were in some cases totally destroyed, with beans being planted in place. Alfalfa and hay were also damaged. An estimate of the crop damage was not available due to the ongoing recovery process, and the complications of figuring damages in the case of replanted crops. The hail accumulated to a depth of several inches in places, with drifts as high as four feet in the Wagner area. Snow plows were needed to clear roads in the Wagner and Lake Andes areas. The hail cracked windows and damaged siding in the Wagner area.
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 miles
Other 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.
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.
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