Good Hope Lutheran Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.

From the record

“Good Hope Lutheran Church is a historic church in Clark County, South Dakota. Route 1 near the community of Vienna, South Dakota.”
Wikipedia article Good Hope Lutheran Church, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 10 National Register listings published here for Clark 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 listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 3 buildingss, 1 site as contributing to the listing.
Address. US 1, Vienna, 57271
When was it listed? July 2002
Category. building
Township. Merton township
Architectural style. Gothic Revival
National Register reference number. 02000727 - 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

5 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Good Hope Lutheran Church between 2003 and 2016, burning about 30 acres in total. 1 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
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Natural	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
2 August 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
1 August 2006	Natural	1.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
29 June 2016	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	KOLDEN
12 April 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	25 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
14 November 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Waubay National Wildlife Refuge	LACRAFT WPA WILDFIRE

Every fire recorded in Clark County

Storms near this property

12 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Vienna, the town this property stands in, in 12 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 6 hail, 6 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
June 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Vienna	-	The mesonet weather station in Mayfield Colony measured a 68 mph wind gusts, which damaged a machine shed.
June 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Vienna	-	Tree branches were reported down in the city of Vienna.
June 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Vienna	-	Wind gusts were estimated to be 60 mph.
August 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Vienna	-	An estimated 60 mph wind was reported.
June 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Vienna	-	Eighty mph winds downed several trees which blocked the highway.
June 1997	Hail	Vienna	-	Dime size hail falling for several minutes piled up into 1 to 2 feet drifts in some spots.
August 2006	Hail	Vienna	-	no account filed
June 2003	Hail	Vienna	-	no account filed
June 2003	Hail	Vienna	-	no account filed
June 2001	Hail	Vienna	-	no account filed
June 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Vienna	-	no account filed
October 1996	Hail	Vienna	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Clark 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
	Southeast Merton School No. 19	0.4 miles	1990

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 02000727 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Clark County	All 10 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.