Lincoln House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.

From the record

“The Lincoln House in Stickney, South Dakota was built in the Early Commercial architectural style by Sylvester Miller. It primarily functioned as a medical office for a Dr.”
Wikipedia article Lincoln House (Stickney, South Dakota), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 9 National Register listings published here for Aurora County · listed in 2002 · 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 as contributing to the listing.
Address. 324 S. Main, Stickney, 57375
When was it listed? February 2002
Category. building
Town. Stickney town
National Register reference number. 02000023 - 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

4 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Lincoln House between 2009 and 2017, burning about 26 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	2
Debris and open burning	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
30 September 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
23 September 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.2 acres	Aurora County	SAFAR FIRE
15 August 2017	Railroad operations and maintenance	1.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	FIRE
20 March 2016	Debris and open burning	22 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	NONE

Every fire recorded in Aurora County

Storms near this property

45 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Stickney, the town this property stands in, in 45 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 22 hail, 19 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 2 flash flood. 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
June 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Stickney	$35,000	A pole barn was significantly damaged. Property damage costs are rough estimates.
June 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Stickney	$30,000	Extensive damage occurred to a grain bin, with minor damage done to the roof of a pole barn. Property damage costs are rough estimates.
June 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Stickney	$25,000	Cattle and calf shelters were damaged. Several calves were killed. Property damage costs are rough estimates.
July 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Stickney	$20,000	Extensive tree damage in Stickney. A tree fell onto power lines near a transformer, causing a power outage in town.
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Stickney	$10,000	Thunderstorm winds tipped over a semi trailer, blew feed bunks 100 yards, and blew down several trees.
June 2020	Flash Flood	Stickney	$5,000	Several county roads were flooded. Rainfall overnight and through the morning totalled 3.94 inches at Corsica and 3.33 inches 10 miles west of Dimock. Property damage costs are rough estimates.
September 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Stickney	$1,000	Strong winds blew pickup truck sideways and downed several larger limbs.
September 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Stickney	$250	Thunderstorms winds removed several tree limbs to 3 inches diameter.
June 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Stickney	-	Several 4 inch diameter tree limbs were downed by thunderstorm winds.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Stickney	-	Thunderstorm wind gusts as high as 63 mph were measured by a personal weather station 5 miles north-northeast of Stickney.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Stickney	-	Thunderstorm winds were measured by a personal weather station 5 miles north-northeast of Stickney.
June 2021	Hail	Stickney	-	In addition to the hail, thunderstorms winds were estimated to briefly reach around 50 mph as the hail fell.
August 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Stickney	-	Personal weather station KSDPLANK3 measured a peak wind gust of 68 mph.
August 2014	Hail	Stickney	-	Golf Ball size hail caused an unknown amount of damage to vehicles and crops.
July 2014	Hail	Stickney	-	Large hail, driven by damaging winds, broke windows and damaged vehicles and siding. The amount of damage was not known.
July 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Stickney	-	Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, and damaged roofs. The amount of damage was not known. The winds were accompanied by golf ball size hail.
August 2014	Hail	Stickney	-	Hail was mostly dime or smaller size, with a few stones as large as half dollars.
June 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Stickney	-	Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including numerous branches blown down.
July 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Stickney	-	Thunderstorm winds contributed to an unknown amount of crop damage. The winds were accompanied by large hail.
July 2010	Hail	Stickney	-	Large hail caused an unknown amount of crop damage. The hail was accompanied by damaging winds.
August 2009	Hail	Stickney	-	Large hail broke windows, dented vehicles and siding, and damaged crops. The amount of property and crop damage was not known.
August 2009	Hail	Stickney	-	Large hail covered the ground.
June 2008	Hail	Stickney	-	Large hail was accompanied by heavy rain.
July 2008	Hail	Stickney	-	Large hail caused crop damage. The amount of crop damage was not known.
August 2007	Flash Flood	Stickney	-	Heavy rain of 3 to 6 inches caused flooding of roads and fields. Basements were flooded in Stickney.
September 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Stickney	-	Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including a few limbs blown down. The winds were accompanied by pea size hail.
August 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Stickney	-	Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage.
June 2003	Hail	Stickney	-	Large hail was accompanied by 40 to 50 mph winds.
July 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Stickney	-	Thunderstorm winds in an apparent downburst pulled a steel roof from a publishing company building and blew it into a power pole, breaking the pole at its base, and leaving residents of Stickney without power for over two hours. Part of the roof was pushed into trees near the building. A television tower at the side of the building was twisted and blown down. A nearby shed was destroyed, and the vehicle parked inside damaged. The damage was very localized with nearby corn crops blown down, next to undamaged corn.
July 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Stickney	-	Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including 6 to 8 inch diameter limbs broken off, and a 50 foot high tree broken off.
July 1998	Hail	Stickney	-	Large hail, accompanied by 55 mph winds and heavy rain, damaged crops over the southern edge of Aurora County.
June 2021	Hail	Stickney	-	no account filed
August 2021	Hail	Stickney	-	no account filed
June 2010	Hail	Stickney	-	no account filed
April 2007	Hail	Stickney	-	no account filed
June 2007	Hail	Stickney	-	no account filed
June 2007	Hail	Stickney	-	no account filed
July 2006	Hail	Stickney	-	no account filed
August 2004	Hail	Stickney	-	no account filed
August 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Stickney	-	no account filed
August 2002	Hail	Stickney	-	no account filed
June 1999	Tornado (F0)	Stickney	-	no account filed
June 1999	Tornado (F0)	Stickney	-	no account filed
May 1998	Hail	Stickney	-	no account filed
June 1996	Hail	Stickney	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Aurora 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

1 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
	William P. Smith House	0.3 miles	2004

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 02000023 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Aurora County	All 9 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.