Saint Peter's Grotto

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.

From the record

“Saint Peter's Grotto, also known as Farmer South Dakota Grotto, is a Folk Art structure. Located in Farmer, South Dakota, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.”
Wikipedia article Saint Peter's Grotto, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 2 National Register listings published here for Hanson County · listed in 2001 · category: Structure.

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 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. O.5 mi N of Chicago and North Western Railroad Tracks, Farmer, 57311
When was it listed? November 2001
Category. structure
Town. Farmer town
National Register reference number. 01000686 - 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

15 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Saint Peter's Grotto between 2001 and 2020, burning about 45 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
Debris and open burning	7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Railroad operations and maintenance	2

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 September 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	McCook County	WAGNER
1 September 2005	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
25 August 2001	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Spencer Volunteer Fire Department	DON PUEPKE
9 June 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
21 May 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	HURON
16 May 2007	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
6 April 2020	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	K TUSCHEN
10 April 2020	Railroad operations and maintenance	20 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	DOUG ONIEL

Every fire recorded in Hanson County

Storms near this property

16 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Farmer, the town this property stands in, in 16 storm reports between 1998 and 2018: 9 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 3 tornado. 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
May 1998	Tornado (F3)	Farmer	$1,000,000	A large and strengthening tornado destroyed buildings and other property on five farms and also destroyed trees and power lines before crossing the eastern edge of Hanson County.
May 2007	Tornado (EF2)	Farmer	$10,000	A tornado caused damage to trees and a junk yard after crossing over from McCook County.
August 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Farmer	-	Thunderstorm winds blew over a tractor/trailer rig on Interstate 90.
May 2007	Tornado (EF0)	Farmer	-	A brief tornado caused no reported damage.
August 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Farmer	-	Thunderstorm winds blew down the side of a brick barn. The winds also caused crop damage, especially to corn, but the amount of damage could not be determined.
April 2018	Hail	Farmer	-	no account filed
May 2012	Hail	Farmer	-	no account filed
May 2012	Hail	Farmer	-	no account filed
September 2010	Hail	Farmer	-	no account filed
October 2007	Hail	Farmer	-	no account filed
September 2007	Hail	Farmer	-	no account filed
August 2006	Hail	Farmer	-	no account filed
August 2004	Hail	Farmer	-	no account filed
August 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Farmer	-	no account filed
August 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Farmer	-	no account filed
August 2002	Hail	Farmer	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Hanson 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 01000686 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Hanson County	All 2 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.
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.