Lake Madison Lutheran Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.

From the record

“Lake Madison Lutheran Church is a historic church in Lake County, South Dakota near Madison, about 7.5 miles (12.1 km) to the northeast of the town. The church was completed in 1898 and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.”
Wikipedia article Lake Madison Lutheran Church, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 16 National Register listings published here for Lake County · listed in 2000 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss, 1 site as contributing to the listing.
Address. 5.5 mi. SE of Madison, Madison, 57057
When was it listed? October 2000
Category. building
Township. Le Roy township
Architectural style. Gothic Revival
National Register reference number. 00001220 - 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

7 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Lake Madison Lutheran Church between 2001 and 2013, burning about 44 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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
Arson/incendiarism	2
Debris and open burning	2
Recreation and ceremony	1
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
21 August 2011	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Madison Wetland Management District	HANSE HOUSE
28 July 2009	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
2 April 2013	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Madison Wetland Management District	HANSEN WF
6 November 2001	Equipment and vehicle use	15 acres	Madison Wetland Management District	HART
4 November 2011	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Madison Wetland Management District	HANSEN WF
3 November 2011	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Madison Wetland Management District	HART WF
4 October 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named

Every fire recorded in Lake County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Lake Madison Lutheran Church: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
	Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Lake County

Storms near this property

60 of 100 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Madison, the town this property stands in, in 100 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 48 hail, 42 thunderstorm wind, 7 flash flood, 2 lightning. 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
October 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Madison	$400,000	no account filed
July 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Madison	$200,000	Thunderstorm winds damaged businesses and blew down road signs, as well as power poles and lines. Numerous trees were damaged and uprooted. Most of the damage was localized over a few blocks.
June 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Madison	$200,000	no account filed
September 2019	Flash Flood	Madison	$100,000	State Highway 34 was under a foot or two of flowing water both west and east of Madison. Several homes were evacuated due to flooding.
July 2000	Tornado (F2)	Madison	$50,000	A tornado destroyed storage sheds, lighting, fencing, and caused other damage at Lake County Speedway. The tornado also damaged crops over a small area.
September 2019	Flash Flood	Madison	$25,000	Water was flowing at several inches to a foot across numerous roads in Madison.
September 2019	Flash Flood	Madison	$20,000	Heavy rainfall produced flash flooding of Silver Creek on the southeast side of Madison. \| Two to three feet of water made roads impassable.
June 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Madison	$20,000	Thunderstorm winds uprooted a large tree, which fell on the roof of a garage and crashed into a window of the attached home.
October 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Madison	$20,000	no account filed
August 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Madison	$20,000	no account filed
July 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Madison	$15,000	Thunderstorm winds blew over an empty semi trailer, and blew a manufactured home off another trailer. The winds also caused tree damage, including several large trees blown down.
May 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Madison	$10,000	Thunderstorm winds blew down trees and power lines.
May 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Madison	$5,000	Thunderstorm winds blew a steel pole shed building across a road. The winds also caused tree damage. The winds were accompanied by heavy rain.
May 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Madison	$5,000	Thunderstorm winds blew down trees and power lines, causing a power outage. At least one house in Madison suffered minor damage from tree debris.
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Madison	$5,000	Thunderstorm winds destroyed a small ticket booth at Prairie Village on the west side of Madison. The winds also damaged an entrance sign near the ticket booth.
June 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Madison	$5,000	no account filed
June 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Madison	$2,000	Thunderstorm winds loosened a tin roof at a seed company and caused tree damage.
May 2000	Lightning	Madison	$1,000	Lightning struck a power pole and damaged a transformer.
June 2005	Lightning	Madison	$200	Lightning struck a large tree in a front yard, stripping the bark off the tree. The tree had to be removed.
July 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Madison	-	Tree limbs up to 3 inches in diameter were taken down by thunderstorm wind gusts.
May 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Madison	-	Two rental storage facilities were destroyed.
May 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Madison	-	Multiple mobile homes received roof damage.
May 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Madison	-	A single family home lost large sections of its roof. Another nearby residence had significant damage to its attached garage. Many nearby trees were either uprooted or had large broken branches.
May 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Madison	-	A mobile home lost a large section of its roof.
May 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Madison	-	A rental storage facility was destroyed.
June 2019	Hail	Madison	-	Dime to quarter size hail, with most falling as pea to dime size.
July 2019	Hail	Madison	-	Strong winds accompanied the hail with 3 to 4 inch diameter branches down.
August 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Madison	-	Numerous tents, porta potties, and trash cans were blown over at Prairie Village.
August 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Madison	-	Tree branches downed.
June 2016	Flash Flood	Madison	-	Heavy rain caused flash flooding of several streets in Madison.
July 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Madison	-	Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including a tree snapped in half.
June 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Madison	-	Thunderstorm winds blew down trees and damaged a fence.
May 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Madison	-	Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including a few trees blown down.
July 2011	Flash Flood	Madison	-	Heavy rainfall of 3 to 7 inches caused flash flooding of numerous fields and several roads.
July 2011	Flash Flood	Madison	-	Heavy rain of around 2 1/2 inches in less than a half hour caused flooding of streets in Madison and of roads and fields in rural areas, including South Dakota Highway 34 a little west of Junius. Damage to soybean crops from the flooding and accompanying hail was reported on the west side of Lake Herman, and additional crop damage was suspected from the flooding. The heavy rain fell on ground which was already saturated.
July 2011	Hail	Madison	-	Large hail, in combination with heavy rain, caused damage to soybean crops.
June 2010	Flash Flood	Madison	-	Heavy rain caused flash flooding of roads and basements. Some roads in Madison were under two feet of water.
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Madison	-	Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage at Lake Herman State Park.
August 2007	Hail	Madison	-	Mostly small hail was accompanied by a few stones up to nickel size.
April 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Madison	-	Thunderstorm winds blew in a garage wall, blew out 2 windows, and broke off 2 to 4 inch diameter tree branches.
September 2006	Hail	Madison	-	Large hail covered the ground, including a county road.
April 2005	Hail	Madison	-	Hail covered the ground along Highway 81.
April 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Madison	-	Thunderstorm winds blew over small storage buildings. The amount of damage was not known.
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Madison	-	Thunderstorm winds caused mostly minor tree damage. The winds also damaged power lines in Chester, resulting in a power outage.
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Madison	-	Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including at least one very large branch and numerous smaller branches blown down. The large branch blocked a street until machinery was able to move it.
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Madison	-	Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including at least one tree blown down.
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Madison	-	Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage. One tree fell into a power line and damaged a transformer, causing a power outage.
July 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Madison	-	Thunderstorm winds overturned boats at Lake Madison. The winds also caused tree damage along the shores, with several large branches blown down.
August 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Madison	-	Thunderstorm winds damaged trees and power lines, resulting in a power outage.
June 2003	Hail	Madison	-	Large hail covered the ground.
July 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Madison	-	Thunderstorm winds damaged trees and crops. The amount of damage was not known.
August 2002	Hail	Madison	-	Large hail was reported at Lake Herman State Park.
June 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Madison	-	Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage and brought down power lines in a rural area.
June 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Madison	-	Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage.
August 2001	Hail	Madison	-	Large hail caused damage to vehicles. The amount of damage was not known.
October 2022	Hail	Madison	-	no account filed
October 2022	Hail	Madison	-	no account filed
August 2019	Hail	Madison	-	no account filed
August 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Madison	-	no account filed
June 2016	Hail	Madison	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lake County

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

6 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Abraham Hegdahl Farm	4.1 miles	2004
Matthew W. Daly House	5.7 miles	1988
Washington School	5.8 miles	2010
Madison Historic District	5.9 miles	1976
William A. Mackay House	5.9 miles	1976
Madison Masonic Temple	6.2 miles	1990

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 00001220 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Lake County	All 16 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.
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.