BlockFrom the record
One of 15 National Register listings published here for Grant County · listed in 2004 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Big Stone City Hall
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 469 Main, Big Stone City, 57216
- When was it listed? July 2004
- Category. building
- City. Big Stone City city
- National Register reference number. 04000764 - 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
11 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Big Stone City Hall between 1993 and 2020, burning about 631 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 2 were 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 burning | 4 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 September 1993 | Debris and open burning | 19 acres | Big Stone National Wildlife Refuge | DIMBERG-WF |
| 2 September 2015 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Big Stone National Wildlife Refuge | BALER |
| 29 July 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 9.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | I90-346 |
| 11 May 2004 | Natural | 354 acres | Big Stone National Wildlife Refuge | SELLIN |
| 10 May 2013 | Debris and open burning | 117 acres | Morris National Wildlife Refuge | 285G |
| 12 April 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | TIRE FIRE |
| 1 April 2015 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Big Stone National Wildlife Refuge | GRAHAM |
| 6 November 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 43 acres | Waubay Wetland Management District | SDWDR-FY21-WF-STREICH |
Mines and quarries near this property
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Big Stone City Hall: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Granite, Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Agate Quarry | Granite, Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Big Stone Sand and Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this property
18 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Big Stone City, the town this property stands in, in 18 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 9 thunderstorm wind, 8 hail, 1 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2023 | Flood | Big Stone City | - | The Whetstone River gauge above Big Stone City recorded a peak of 19.65 feet on April 13th, which is just below major flood stage. |
| May 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Big Stone City | - | The roof of a Big Stone City business was blown off, and parts of it ended up in a tree about 360 feet to the north by estimated 80 mph winds. |
| August 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Big Stone City | - | Estimated sixty mph winds brought down several large tree limbs. |
| June 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Big Stone City | - | An estimated 100 mph winds destroyed two garages with flying debris damaging a house northeast of the garages in Big Stone City. Extensive tree damage occurred in town with trees down and along with many branches. The main structural damage in town was shingle damage and windows blown in that were facing the wind. Some metal siding was blown off the cheese factory on the northwest side of town with the roof of a towing/repair business across the road sustaining roof damage. |
| May 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Big Stone City | - | no account filed |
| July 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Big Stone City | - | no account filed |
| August 2025 | Hail | Big Stone City | - | no account filed |
| August 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Big Stone City | - | no account filed |
| May 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Big Stone City | - | no account filed |
| August 2021 | Hail | Big Stone City | - | no account filed |
| August 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Big Stone City | - | no account filed |
| August 2010 | Hail | Big Stone City | - | no account filed |
| August 2010 | Hail | Big Stone City | - | no account filed |
| August 2010 | Hail | Big Stone City | - | no account filed |
| June 2007 | Hail | Big Stone City | - | no account filed |
| May 2006 | Hail | Big Stone City | - | no account filed |
| August 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Big Stone City | - | no account filed |
| August 1996 | Hail | Big Stone City | - | 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
2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | James A. and Ida Bell Gold House | 0.3 miles | 2008 |
 | Herman Friewald Barn | 3.7 miles | 2008 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 04000764 in Record Group 79. |
| Grant County | All 15 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.