Hetland School

Built in 1904. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.

From the record

“The Hetland School, on Park Street in Hetland, South Dakota, was built in 1904. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.”
Wikipedia article Hetland School, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 23 National Register listings published here for Kingsbury County · listed in 2002 · category: Building · built in 1904.

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 3 objectss, 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. Park St., Hetland, 57212
When was it listed? May 2002
Category. building
Also known as. Schools in South Dakota MPS
Township. Denver township
When was it built? 1904
National Register reference number. 02000572 - 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

9 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Hetland School between 2000 and 2016, burning about 435 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	4
Debris and open burning	3
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Other causes	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
15 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	85 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	HWY !4 CRP
1 September 2016	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	ELDIE SMITH
8 April 2000	Other causes	1.0 acres	Arlington Volunteer Fire Department	DOUG CONVERSE
5 April 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	DENNIS CONVERSE FIRE
13 April 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	DM&E ROW
1 April 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
20 March 2016	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	OLD CAR GUY FIRE
15 October 2008	Debris and open burning	50 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named

Every fire recorded in Kingsbury County

Storms near this property

6 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hetland, the town this property stands in, in 6 storm reports between 2000 and 2022: 4 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind. 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 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Hetland	-	Thunderstorm winds destroyed a barn, with debris strewn across U.S. Highway 14.
June 2016	Hail	Hetland	-	Large hail covered the ground. Damage to young crops was suspected, but the amount of crop damage was not known.
August 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Hetland	-	Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including branches blown down.
September 2007	Hail	Hetland	-	no account filed
May 2000	Hail	Hetland	-	no account filed
May 2000	Hail	Hetland	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Kingsbury 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
Omdalen Barn	2.0 miles	2006
Adam and Minnie Royhl House	5.0 miles	2001
Stark and Blanch Garage	5.1 miles	2007
Arlington Masonic Temple	5.1 miles	2017
Central Dakota Flouring Mill Grain Elevator	5.3 miles	2002
Lake Preston Tourist Park Historic District	6.6 miles	2002

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 02000572 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Kingsbury County	All 23 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.