BlockFrom the record
One of 23 National Register listings published here for Kingsbury County · listed in 2006 · category: Building · built in 1909.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Badger School District Number 18
Built in 1909. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Address. Jct. of Main St. and First Ave., Badger, 57214
- When was it listed? August 2006
- Category. building
- Also known as. Schools in South Dakota MPS
- Town. Badger town
- When was it built? 1909
- National Register reference number. 06000665 - 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
15 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Badger School District Number 18 between 1999 and 2017, burning about 141 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Other causes | 1 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 September 2000 | Natural | 75 acres | Waubay Volunteer Fire Department | SOUTH OF JOE BUTLER |
| 1 September 2016 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | ELDIE SMITH |
| 2 June 2017 | Smoking | 1.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | WEIRD FRE |
| 9 May 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | DARK NIGHT DITCH FIRE |
| 9 April 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | VENDRIG |
| 8 April 2000 | Other causes | 1.0 acres | Arlington Volunteer Fire Department | DOUG CONVERSE |
| 5 April 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | DENNIS CONVERSE FIRE |
| 27 April 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | WHITE DOG |
Storms near this property
22 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Badger, the town this property stands in, in 22 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 12 hail, 10 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Badger | $30,000 | Thunderstorm winds destroyed a mobile home near Lake Poinsett. |
| July 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Badger | $20,000 | no account filed |
| August 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Badger | $2,000 | Tree branches from 2 to 6 inches in diameter were removed by thunderstorm winds. Property damage costs are rough estimates. |
| June 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Badger | - | Thunderstorm winds caused considerable tree damage and downed around 1 mile of power poles. |
| July 2024 | Hail | Badger | - | Crop damage monetary losses are an estimate using data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. |
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Badger | - | Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage. |
| July 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Badger | - | Thunderstorm winds damaged corn crops. |
| July 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Badger | - | Thunderstorm winds blew down branches. |
| September 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Badger | - | Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including several branches blown down. |
| July 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Badger | - | Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including at least one large branch blown down. |
| July 2016 | Hail | Badger | - | no account filed |
| July 2016 | Hail | Badger | - | no account filed |
| May 2012 | Hail | Badger | - | no account filed |
| June 2010 | Hail | Badger | - | no account filed |
| May 2006 | Hail | Badger | - | no account filed |
| May 2005 | Hail | Badger | - | no account filed |
| September 2005 | Hail | Badger | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Badger | - | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Hail | Badger | - | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Hail | Badger | - | no account filed |
| July 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Badger | - | no account filed |
| June 1994 | Hail | Badger | - | 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
3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Olaf Stordahl Barn | 2.5 miles | 2002 | |
| Berger Farmstead | 4.4 miles | 2005 | |
| Hetland School | 7.6 miles | 2002 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 06000665 in Record Group 79. |
| Kingsbury County | All 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.
- 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.