Built in 1941 (Art Deco architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.
From the record
“The Municipal Building is a historic building located at 206 Main Street, Faith, South Dakota. It was constructed in 1941 under the supervision of architect U.L.”
Wikipedia article Faith Municipal Building, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 27 National Register listings published here for Meade County · listed in 2000 · category: Building · built in 1941, Art Deco architecture.
Also known as. Federal Relief Construction in South Dakota MPS
City. Faith city
When was it built? 1941
Architectural style. Art Deco architecture
National Register reference number.00000722- 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
12 since 1996
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Municipal Building-City Hall
between 1996 and 2012, burning about 452 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 1 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
Natural
4
Equipment and vehicle use
4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
2
Power generation/transmission/distribution
1
Arson/incendiarism
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
Faith, the town this property stands in, in 64 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 32 hail, 28 thunderstorm wind, 3 tornado, 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.
Strong winds tore half the roof off a house and blew down two outbuildings on the south side of Faith. Several empty truck trailers were tipped over and large trees throughout town were broken and blown over. Several power poles were downed, causing the loss of electric service for about 36 hours in much of the town. Hail accumulated to a depth of 12 inches.
Strong winds gusting up to 90 mph damaged and downed power poles. A shed was blown onto a highway and four outbuildings were destroyed, including a barn that was ripped out of the ground.
Runoff from heavy rain caused 196th Place west-southwest of Faith to flood. Water also ponded in fields and ditches. Over three inches of rain fell in about two hours.
A second tornado touched down southwest of Faith and traveled north, dissipating shortly after it crossed U.S. Highway 212 west of Faith. It caused no damage.
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
2 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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