St. Augustine Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.

From the record

“Augustine Church is a former Catholic church located at the southeast corner of 6th and Main Streets in Dallas, South Dakota, United States. It currently houses the Gregory County History Museum, which is operated by the Gregory County Historical Society.”
Wikipedia article St. Augustine Church (Dallas, South Dakota), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 12 National Register listings published here for Gregory County · listed in 2009 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. SE Corner of 6th St. and Main St., Dallas, 57529
When was it listed? November 2009
Category. building
Town. Dallas town
Architectural style. Romanesque Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 09000944 - 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

31 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 31 fires within 5 miles of St. Augustine Church between 1998 and 2019, burning about 194 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	16
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Debris and open burning	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Natural	1
Fireworks	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
4 September 2008	Debris and open burning	2.1 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
27 September 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
18 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	CALDWELL FIRE
9 August 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
31 August 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	FORTUNA FIRE
4 July 2017	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	TENNIS COURT
4 July 2007	Fireworks	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
30 July 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	50 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named

Every fire recorded in Gregory 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 St. Augustine Church: 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
	Fedde Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
	Paul Liebel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Gregory County

Storms near this property

26 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dallas, the town this property stands in, in 26 storm reports between 1998 and 2024: 17 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 1 lightning. 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
July 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Dallas	$10,000	no account filed
July 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Dallas	-	A thunderstorm wind gust of 58 mph was measured by the South Dakota Road Weather Information System site at Dallas.
August 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Dallas	-	A few trees were knocked down around town.
June 2010	Flash Flood	Dallas	-	Heavy rain flooded several roads, especially 289th street near Ponca Creek.
June 2010	Hail	Dallas	-	Large hail was accompanied by very heavy rain.
August 2008	Hail	Dallas	-	Large hail was accompanied by one inch of rainfall.
June 2008	Hail	Dallas	-	Large hail covered the ground. The hail caused severe crop damage in the area, but the amount of crop damage was not known.
June 2005	Hail	Dallas	-	Large hail was preceded by wind gusts to 45 mph.
June 2003	Hail	Dallas	-	Large hail covered the ground.
June 2003	Tornado (F0)	Dallas	-	A brief tornado in open country caused no reported damage.
August 2002	Hail	Dallas	-	Large hail covered the ground and a highway. The hail caused widespread and severe crop damage. The amount of crop damage was not known.
August 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Dallas	-	Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including some trees snapped in half.
September 2000	Lightning	Dallas	-	Lightning caused a grass fire which burned about 500 acres. The amount of damage was not known.
July 2019	Hail	Dallas	-	no account filed
June 2018	Hail	Dallas	-	no account filed
August 2007	Hail	Dallas	-	no account filed
June 2005	Hail	Dallas	-	no account filed
June 2004	Hail	Dallas	-	no account filed
June 2004	Hail	Dallas	-	no account filed
June 2003	Hail	Dallas	-	no account filed
August 2002	Hail	Dallas	-	no account filed
June 2001	Hail	Dallas	-	no account filed
June 1999	Hail	Dallas	-	no account filed
June 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Dallas	-	no account filed
June 1999	Tornado (F0)	Dallas	-	no account filed
May 1998	Hail	Dallas	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Gregory 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

5 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
St. John's Catholic Church	under 500 feet	2009
Dallas Carnegie Library	under 500 feet	1976
Gregory Buttes Stone Steps	4.1 miles	2004
Tackett Underwood Building	4.3 miles	1999
Gregory National Bank	7.5 miles	2013

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 09000944 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Gregory County	All 12 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.