Esmond Methodist Episcopal Church and Township Hall

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.

From the record

“The Esmond Methodist Episcopal Church and Township Hall are two historic buildings at the junction of Center Street and Elm Street in Esmond, South Dakota. They were added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.”
Wikipedia article Esmond Methodist Episcopal Church and Township Hall, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 23 National Register listings published here for Kingsbury County · listed in 2006 · 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 4 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. Jct. of Center St. and Elm St., Esmond, 57353
When was it listed? August 2006
Category. building
Township. Esmond township
National Register reference number. 06000666 - 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

1 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Esmond Methodist Episcopal Church and Township Hall in 2012, burning about 5 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	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
31 August 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	AUGHENBAUGH

Every fire recorded in Kingsbury County

Storms near this property

21 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Esmond, the town this property stands in, in 21 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 11 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 3 tornado, 3 flood. The reports record 4 injuries. 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 2003	Tornado (F4)	Esmond	4 hurt, $3,000,000	A tornado destroyed or heavily damaged all buildings, other structures, and vehicles in the small town of Manchester. Propane and fuel oil tanks were destroyed. Many homes were stripped to the foundation. Of the six residents of the town, four were injured and were transported to hospitals. Three were deemed to be seriously injured, but non of the injuries were life threatening. One of the injured was in a basement, one was blown out of the home on the way to the same basement, and two were in a mobile home which was destroyed. The tornado damaged crops, trees, and power lines south of Manchester prior to reaching the town. The tornado also heavily damaged several farms north of Manchester, including two farms on which several buildings including the homes were destroyed. One of the farms was a "Centennial Farm". About 12 cattle were killed and others injured. The amount of crop damage was not known. During its path, the tornado was observed to have multiple vortices. The tornado was observed and video taped by numerous storm chasers and researchers. Researchers also deployed weather sensors around the town of Manchester. One of these sensors recorded a 100 millibar pressure drop as the tornado passed.
March 2019	Flood	Esmond	$370,000	Flooding resulted in damage to public infrastructure including county and township roads and culverts.
September 2019	Flood	Esmond	$52,000	Flooding resulted in crop losses and damage to public infrastructure including county and township roads and culverts. Crop loss estimates provided by the United States Department of Agriculture.
May 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Esmond	$5,000	Thunderstorm winds damaged a barn and caused tree damage.
May 2011	Hail	Esmond	$1,000	Large hail, driven by less than severe winds, broke a few windows.
June 2020	Flash Flood	Esmond	-	Deputy came across deep water flowing across the road. The full depth was unknown, but it was deep enough to force the deputy to turn around.
June 2019	Flood	Esmond	-	During crop planting season, prolonged flooding led to the loss of or inability to plant crops across the area. Crop loss estimates provided by the United States Department of Agriculture.
April 2007	Tornado (EF0)	Esmond	-	A brief tornado caused no reported damage.
June 2003	Tornado (F0)	Esmond	-	A brief tornado caused no reported damage. The tornado dissipated as another tornado formed nearby, leaving a brief moment with two tornadoes in close proximity to each other.
July 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Esmond	-	Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage including 3 inch diameter limbs blown down.
August 2025	Hail	Esmond	-	no account filed
June 2015	Hail	Esmond	-	no account filed
July 2010	Hail	Esmond	-	no account filed
July 2010	Hail	Esmond	-	no account filed
June 2006	Hail	Esmond	-	no account filed
June 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Esmond	-	no account filed
August 2002	Hail	Esmond	-	no account filed
August 1999	Hail	Esmond	-	no account filed
July 1998	Hail	Esmond	-	no account filed
June 1996	Hail	Esmond	-	no account filed
April 1993	Hail	Esmond	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Kingsbury 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 06000666 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
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.