BlockFrom the record
One of 23 National Register listings published here for Kingsbury County · listed in 2002 · category: District.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Lake Preston Tourist Park Historic District
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.
The listing
- Address. Jct. of US 14 and S. Park Ave., Lake Preston, 57249
- When was it listed? May 2002
- Category. district
- Township. Baker township
- National Register reference number. 02000574 - 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 2001Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Lake Preston Tourist Park Historic District between 2001 and 2011, burning about 6 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 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17 April 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | not named |
| 14 April 2009 | Recreation and ceremony | 3.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | not named |
| 3 November 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | PRESTON |
| 1 November 2001 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Desmet Volunteer Fire Department | INCIDENT#704 |
Storms near this property
25 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lake Preston, the town this property stands in, in 25 storm reports between 1995 and 2022: 9 thunderstorm wind, 9 hail, 6 tornado, 1 lightning. The reports record 2 injuries. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2002 | Hail | Lake Preston | 2 hurt, $500,000 | Large hail broke windows, and heavily damaged vehicles and boats. Holes were punched by the hail in some of the boats. Two boaters on Lake Thompson were injured by the hail. One was taken to the hospital with a head injury, and the other suffered several welts on the back from hailstone hits. Crop damage also occurred, but the amount of crop damage was not known. |
| May 2000 | Hail | Lake Preston | $2,000,000 | Large hail caused extenseive broken windows to both buildings and vehicles, dented many vehicles, and damaged roofs and sidings of homes. Crop damage was also reported, but the amount of the damage could not be determined. |
| July 2002 | Hail | Lake Preston | $100,000 | Large hail broke windows in homes and vehicles, and otherwise damaged vehicles. The hail also caused crop damage, but the amount of crop damage was not known. |
| May 2006 | Tornado (F1) | Lake Preston | $50,000 | A tornado destroyed three calf shelters and two hog shelters, killing two cows and about a dozen hogs. The tornado also lifted a calf feeder 50 feet and rolled it 200 yards, and damaged grain bins. The tornado was well observed and photographed, and was classified as a landspout type of tornado. |
| July 2002 | Tornado (F0) | Lake Preston | $10,000 | A brief tornado damaged several farm buildings. |
| July 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lake Preston | $10,000 | Thunderstorm winds blew down power lines and caused tree damage. |
| August 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lake Preston | $10,000 | no account filed |
| August 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lake Preston | $5,000 | Thunderstorm winds blew down a large tree on to a house, knocking a brick chimney onto a car. Minor tree damage, mainly downed branches, occurred elsewhere in the town. |
| July 1997 | Tornado (F0) | Lake Preston | $2,000 | A brief tornado caused minor damage to a home. |
| May 1996 | Lightning | Lake Preston | $2,000 | no account filed |
| May 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lake Preston | - | Seven to eight power poles were snapped. Crop damage is an estimate from insured losses. Information provided by the United States Department of Agriculture. |
| June 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lake Preston | - | Six inch diameter branches were downed with the wind. |
| June 2010 | Hail | Lake Preston | - | Large hail varied from quarter to baseball size. The hail damaged several vehicles, but the amount of damage was not known. |
| September 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lake Preston | - | Thunderstorm winds caused tree and power line damage, resulting in a power outage. |
| July 2002 | Tornado (F0) | Lake Preston | - | A tornado was observed crossing Lake Thompson, but did not reach land, and caused no reported damage. |
| June 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lake Preston | - | Thunderstorm winds blew down trees two feet in diameter, and caused other tree damage. |
| July 1997 | Tornado (F0) | Lake Preston | - | A tornado in an open area resulted in no reported damage. |
| June 2012 | Hail | Lake Preston | - | no account filed |
| July 2010 | Hail | Lake Preston | - | no account filed |
| April 2007 | Hail | Lake Preston | - | no account filed |
| July 2002 | Hail | Lake Preston | - | no account filed |
| July 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lake Preston | - | no account filed |
| July 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lake Preston | - | no account filed |
| July 2000 | Hail | Lake Preston | - | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Tornado (F0) | Lake Preston | - | no account filed |
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
4 within 8 milesOther 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lake Preston High School | 0.3 miles | 2003 | |
| First Methodist Episcopal Church of Lake Preston | 0.4 miles | 2023 | |
| Omdalen Barn | 5.3 miles | 2006 | |
| Hetland School | 6.6 miles | 2002 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 02000574 in Record Group 79. |
| 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.