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Bank of the Iroquois Building

Built in 1887 (Italianate architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.

From the record

“The Bank of the Iroquois Building, at the corner of Washita and Quapaw Sts. in Iroquois, South Dakota, was built in 1887. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.”

Wikipedia article Bank of the Iroquois Building, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 23 National Register listings published here for Kingsbury County · listed in 2002 · category: Building · built in 1887, Italianate architecture.

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 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. Jct. of Washita and Quapaw Sts., Iroquois, 57353
  • When was it listed? May 2002
  • Category. building
  • City. Iroquois city
  • When was it built? 1887
  • Architectural style. Italianate architecture
  • National Register reference number. 02000576 - 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

1 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Bank of the Iroquois Building in 1999, burning about 2 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 burning1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
4 April 1999Debris and open burning2.0 acresIroquois Volunteer Fire DepartmentIROQUOIS

Every fire recorded in Kingsbury County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Bank of the Iroquois Building: 1 producer. All of them still produce. 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Evans PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Kingsbury County

Storms near this property

19 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Iroquois, the town this property stands in, in 19 storm reports between 1997 and 2019: 9 hail, 8 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
March 1998Thunderstorm WindIroquois$100,000no account filed
June 2013Thunderstorm WindIroquois$10,000Thunderstorm winds blew power poles and wires down, and destroyed two metal sheds. The winds also caused extensive tree damage, including numerous large branches blown down.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindIroquois$10,000Thunderstorm winds damaged shingles on a few homes and caused tree damage, including several trees blown down.
August 2004HailIroquois$5,000Large hail dented vehicles.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindIroquois-Thunderstorm winds brought down large trees.
June 2010Flash FloodIroquois-Heavy rain caused flash flooding of roads.
August 2006Tornado (F0)Iroquois-A brief tornado caused no reported damage.
August 2005Thunderstorm WindIroquois-Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including a few trees and many large branches blown down.
September 2005Thunderstorm WindIroquois-Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including several branches blown down.
September 2005Thunderstorm WindIroquois-Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including several branches blown down.
July 2017HailIroquois-no account filed
June 2010HailIroquois-no account filed
April 2007HailIroquois-no account filed
May 2005Thunderstorm WindIroquois-no account filed
August 2005HailIroquois-no account filed
July 2002HailIroquois-no account filed
June 2001HailIroquois-no account filed
June 1999HailIroquois-no account filed
July 1997HailIroquois-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

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 PropertyDistance Listed
South Dakota Dept. of Transportation Bridge No. 39-006-0705.1 miles1993

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 02000576 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Kingsbury CountyAll 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.