Whitewood Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.

From the record

One of 57 National Register listings published here for Lawrence County · listed in 2007 · category: District.

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 3 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. 1005-1021 Meade St., Whitewood, 57793
When was it listed? June 2007
Category. district
City. Whitewood city
National Register reference number. 07000529 - 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

87 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 87 fires within 5 miles of Whitewood Historic District between 1992 and 2020, burning about 204 acres in total. 49 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	49
Debris and open burning	12
Equipment and vehicle use	10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	9
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Recreation and ceremony	2
Smoking	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
9 September 2013	Natural	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	WILSON
7 September 2004	Natural	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
5 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	I-90
5 September 1995	Natural	under an acre	Black Hills National Forest	WHITEWOOD PEAK
28 September 1992	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	SAWMILL FIRE
8 August 2020	Natural	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	200TH CA
8 August 1992	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	JENSON HAYSTACK
7 August 2016	Natural	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	ACORN

Every fire recorded in Lawrence County

Mines and quarries near this property

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Whitewood Historic District: 5 producers, 1 unknown, 1 past producer. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Limestone, Dimension, Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Gold. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Alpine - Strawberry Mining Co.	Gold, Mercury	Past Producer	Placer
Cole Construction Company	Limestone, General	Producer	Limestone
H Clay Prod.Grog Pit	Clay	Producer
Sundstrom Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Wells Fargo MS 946	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Cole Construction Co	Limestone, Dimension	Producer
Cole Quarry	Limestone, Dimension	Unknown

Every working recorded in Lawrence County

Storms near this property

33 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Whitewood, the town this property stands in, in 33 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 25 hail, 8 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
September 2013	Hail	Whitewood	$25,000	no account filed
September 2013	Hail	Whitewood	$5,000	no account filed
June 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Whitewood	-	Marble sized hail also accompanied the storm.
July 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Whitewood	-	Wind gusts were estimated around 60 mph.
August 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Whitewood	-	Wind gusts were estimated at 60 mph.
September 2013	Hail	Whitewood	-	Penny size hail covered the ground.
May 2007	Hail	Whitewood	-	Wind gusts were estimated near 50 mph.
July 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Whitewood	-	Tree damage was reported.
July 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Whitewood	-	no account filed
June 2022	Hail	Whitewood	-	no account filed
June 2021	Hail	Whitewood	-	no account filed
June 2021	Hail	Whitewood	-	no account filed
August 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Whitewood	-	no account filed
June 2019	Hail	Whitewood	-	no account filed
July 2019	Hail	Whitewood	-	no account filed
August 2018	Hail	Whitewood	-	no account filed
June 2018	Hail	Whitewood	-	no account filed
July 2018	Hail	Whitewood	-	no account filed
August 2017	Hail	Whitewood	-	no account filed
August 2015	Hail	Whitewood	-	no account filed
July 2015	Hail	Whitewood	-	no account filed
May 2013	Hail	Whitewood	-	no account filed
May 2013	Hail	Whitewood	-	no account filed
August 2013	Hail	Whitewood	-	no account filed
August 2013	Hail	Whitewood	-	no account filed
July 2011	Hail	Whitewood	-	no account filed
July 2008	Hail	Whitewood	-	no account filed
July 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Whitewood	-	no account filed
July 2007	Hail	Whitewood	-	no account filed
August 2005	Hail	Whitewood	-	no account filed
August 2004	Hail	Whitewood	-	no account filed
August 2002	Hail	Whitewood	-	no account filed
March 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Whitewood	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lawrence 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

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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Frawley Historic Ranch	3.6 miles	1974
Rasmus and Elemine Anderson Homestead Ranch	4.3 miles	2015
Pearson Cabin	5.5 miles	2012
McLaughlin Ranch Barn	6.4 miles	2002
Woodmen Hall	7.0 miles	1991
St. Onge Schoolhouse	7.1 miles	1980

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 07000529 in Record Group 79.
Lawrence County	All 57 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.