United Brethren Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.

From the record

“United Brethren Church, also known as Pleasant Hill Chapel, is a church in Union County, South Dakota. It was built in 1905 and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.”
Wikipedia article United Brethren Church (Union County, South Dakota), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 16 National Register listings published here for Union County · listed in 2001 · category: Building.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss, 1 site as contributing to the listing.
Address. 31141 476th Ave., West Akron, 51001
When was it listed? February 2001
Category. building
Township. Spink township
National Register reference number. 01000091 - 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

20 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of United Brethren Church between 1999 and 2020, burning about 232 acres in total. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	13
Debris and open burning	5
Smoking	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
31 July 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	EMMET TWP.
2 July 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	TREIBER FIRE
3 June 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	LINE
29 June 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	HWY 48
20 May 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.5 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	14-009 BUITENBOS
18 May 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.5 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	REILLY
22 April 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	GOEDEN
17 April 2001	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	25 acres	Alcester Volunteer Fire Department	BOB V.

Every fire recorded in Union 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
Hultgren Farm	4.3 miles	2004
Nora Store	4.7 miles	2007
South Dakota Dept. of Transportation Bridge No. 64-061-199	5.5 miles	1993
Baker House	5.6 miles	1979
Star School District 61	6.8 miles	2008
Junction City Rest Stop Tipi	7.0 miles	2015

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 01000091 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Union 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.