Photograph of Brooklyn School District No. 42 — Photograph by GLDickson, CC BY-SA 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Brooklyn School District #42

Built in 1895. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.

From the record

One of 27 National Register listings published here for Lincoln County · listed in 2004 · category: Building · built in 1895.

Sources: 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. 29534 468th Ave., Beresford, 57004
When was it listed? December 2004
Category. building
Also known as. Schools in South Dakota MPS
Township. Brooklyn township
When was it built? 1895
National Register reference number. 04001364 - 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

8 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Brooklyn School District #42 between 1998 and 2018, burning about 24 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	6
Debris and open burning	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
15 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	9152011
10 August 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	NA
28 June 1998	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Rapid City Fire Department	98-1982
12 May 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	WESTBERG
29 March 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	TTT
2 March 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
8 November 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	11082011
8 October 1998	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Columbia Volunteer Fire Department	PENCE

Every fire recorded in Lincoln County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Brooklyn School District #42: 2 producers. 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Christenson Sand & Gravel	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
	Higman Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Lincoln 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
	Mathias Schmid Farm	6.4 miles	2004

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 04001364 in Record Group 79.
Lincoln County	All 27 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.