Dunlap Methodist Episcopal Church

Built in 1902 (Gothic Revival). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.

From the record

“Dunlap Methodist Episcopal Church is a historic church in Brule County, South Dakota, located 12 miles north of Platte, South Dakota. It was built in 1902 and was added to the National Register in 2001.”
Wikipedia article Dunlap Methodist Episcopal Church, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 7 National Register listings published here for Brule County · listed in 2001 · category: Building · built in 1902, Gothic Revival.

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 1 building, 1 site as contributing to the listing.
Address. Jct. of 369th Ave. and 264th St., Platte, 57369
When was it listed? June 2001
Category. building
Township. Torrey Lake township
When was it built? 1902
Architectural style. Gothic Revival
National Register reference number. 01000666 - 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 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Dunlap Methodist Episcopal Church between 2002 and 2017, burning about 301 acres in total. 1 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	6
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Debris and open burning	2
Natural	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
29 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	25 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	CEDAR GROVE 11-024
24 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	TOREY LAKE 11-025
30 July 2008	Natural	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
30 July 2002	Equipment and vehicle use	50 acres	Platte Volunteer Fire Department	02-021 STEVE OLSON
26 July 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	BRIGGS
31 May 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	20 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	GRAVES
20 May 2009	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
23 April 2008	Debris and open burning	160 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named

Every fire recorded in Brule 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 01000666 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Brule County	All 7 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.