Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.
From the record
“Lawrence O'Toole Catholic Church is a historic former Catholic church at 618 Main in Central City, South Dakota. Built in 1879, it is a one-story frame, vernacular style building with a gable roof.”
Wikipedia article St. Lawrence O'Toole Catholic Church, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 57 National Register listings published here for Lawrence County · listed in 2003 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.02001764- 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
152 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 152 fires within 5 miles of St. Lawrence O'Toole Catholic Church
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 12,444 acres in total. 46 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
Natural
46
Debris and open burning
28
Recreation and ceremony
23
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
19
Equipment and vehicle use
14
Power generation/transmission/distribution
10
Misuse of fire by a minor
5
Fireworks
3
Smoking
2
Firearms and explosives 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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
268 workings within 5 miles of St. Lawrence O'Toole Catholic Church: 177 past producers, 43 producers, 26 unknowns, 11 occurrences.
49 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Gold, Silver, Tungsten. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Central City, the town this property stands in, in 15 storm reports between 2008 and 2024: 11 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 heavy rain, 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.
Thunderstorms during the evening hours dumped two to five inches of rain in less than three hours over portions of northern Lawrence County. Runoff from the heavy rain caused minor street flooding in Deadwood and a small portion of Crook Mountain Road to be inundated with water and debris.
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.
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.
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