Our Savior's Lutheran Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.

From the record

“Our Savior's Lutheran Church is a church near Menno, South Dakota. Built in 1935, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.”
Wikipedia article Our Savior's Lutheran Church (Menno, South Dakota), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 78 National Register listings published here for Yankton 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 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 29219 431st Ave., Menno, 57045
When was it listed? October 2001
Category. building
Unorganized territory. West Yankton
National Register reference number. 01001078 - 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 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Our Savior's Lutheran Church between 2000 and 2012, burning about 108 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	3
Debris and open burning	2
Equipment and vehicle use	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
11 August 2009	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
8 April 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	BAD BALE FIRE
19 April 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
13 April 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	48 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	ORTH COMPLEX
16 March 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	50 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	BKS HUNTING CLUB
15 March 2008	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
3 February 2000	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Lesterville Fire & Rescue	ROAD DITCH

Every fire recorded in Yankton 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 Our Savior's 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
	Hauck Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
	John Grajek Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Yankton 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

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.

Photograph	Property	Distance	Listed
	Mathias Lasele House	6.7 miles	1980
	Kremer House	7.7 miles	1980

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 01001078 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Yankton County	All 78 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.