BlockFrom the record
One of 11 National Register listings published here for Edmunds County · listed in 2020 · category: Building · built in 1922.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Ipswich Masonic Temple
Built in 1922. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2020.
The listing
- Address. 318 2nd Ave., Ipswich, 57451
- When was it listed? June 2020
- Category. building
- City. Ipswich city
- When was it built? 1922
- National Register reference number. 100005320 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
30 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 30 fires within 5 miles of Ipswich Masonic Temple between 1998 and 2020, burning about 604 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 | 18 |
| Debris and open burning | 5 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
| Other causes | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | SYLTE |
| 18 July 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4.0 acres | Edmunds County | DOC MEYER RR |
| 13 July 2015 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 1.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | CRAVEN RAILROAD |
| 5 June 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | 5.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | TDO |
| 5 May 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 200 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | CRP |
| 27 May 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | 20 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | PENFIELD |
| 23 May 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 50 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | not named |
| 29 April 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | BEYERS LAND |
Mines and quarries near this property
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Ipswich Masonic Temple: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Ipswich Sand and Gravel Co Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this property
60 of 63 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ipswich, the town this property stands in, in 63 storm reports between 1993 and 2024: 39 hail, 18 thunderstorm wind, 3 tornado, 3 flash flood. 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 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ipswich | - | The public reported an estimated wind gust of 60 mph in Ipswich. |
| August 2021 | Hail | Ipswich | - | A hail swath determined by high resolution satellite imagery along with surface reports occurred from Edmunds County east across southern Brown into Day Counties. The largest hail size was baseball size. The scar dimensions covered approximately 70 square miles in Edmunds County. The start location was approximately 5 miles southwest of Ipswich, and it continued in an east southeast orientation to the Brown County line approximately 5 miles south of Mina Lake. Drone and photo evidence of damage in this area suggest substantial to total crop losses. |
| August 2021 | Hail | Ipswich | - | Golf ball sized hail broke ten windows at a residence. |
| June 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ipswich | - | A tree was toppled over by estimated seventy mph winds. |
| June 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ipswich | - | A large tree was downed in Ipswich which damaged the fence it fell upon. Some other branches were also downed in town. |
| August 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ipswich | - | Seventy-five mph winds brought many trees down along with many large branches throughout Ipswich. |
| July 2015 | Flash Flood | Ipswich | - | Heavy rains resulted in water flowing over South Dakota State Highway 45 just south of Ipswich. |
| August 2014 | Flash Flood | Ipswich | - | Very heavy rains resulted in water over County Road 13 north of Ipswich. |
| May 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ipswich | - | A ninety mph wind was measured at Pembrook Colony. |
| May 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ipswich | - | Eighty mph winds downed many trees in Ipswich. |
| June 2006 | Hail | Ipswich | - | Hail from penny to golfball size fell for almost 45 minutes. |
| June 2006 | Flash Flood | Ipswich | - | Heavy rains of 3 to 5 inches flooded several roads and fields 10 miles north of Ipswich. |
| June 2005 | Tornado (F0) | Ipswich | - | A tornado touched down briefly north of Ipswich causing no damage. |
| July 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ipswich | - | Many branches were downed in Ipswich. |
| July 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ipswich | - | High winds to 70 mph rolled round haybales about 50 feet, blew a well cover onto a car, and blew a calf shelter nearly 50 feet |
| July 1999 | Hail | Ipswich | - | Golfball size hail and high winds destroyed hundreds of acres of crops on a farm southeast of Ipswich. |
| July 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ipswich | - | Winds gusting to 80 mph uprooted and damaged several trees. Also, many power and cable lines were downed along with some buildings being damaged. |
| May 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ipswich | - | no account filed |
| April 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ipswich | - | no account filed |
| July 2022 | Hail | Ipswich | - | no account filed |
| July 2022 | Hail | Ipswich | - | no account filed |
| July 2019 | Hail | Ipswich | - | no account filed |
| July 2016 | Hail | Ipswich | - | no account filed |
| July 2016 | Hail | Ipswich | - | no account filed |
| May 2010 | Hail | Ipswich | - | no account filed |
| May 2010 | Hail | Ipswich | - | no account filed |
| May 2010 | Hail | Ipswich | - | no account filed |
| May 2010 | Hail | Ipswich | - | no account filed |
| May 2010 | Hail | Ipswich | - | no account filed |
| September 2009 | Hail | Ipswich | - | no account filed |
| September 2009 | Hail | Ipswich | - | no account filed |
| August 2009 | Hail | Ipswich | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Hail | Ipswich | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Hail | Ipswich | - | no account filed |
| May 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ipswich | - | no account filed |
| July 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ipswich | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Hail | Ipswich | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Hail | Ipswich | - | no account filed |
| September 2006 | Hail | Ipswich | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Ipswich | - | no account filed |
| July 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ipswich | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Tornado (F0) | Ipswich | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Tornado (F0) | Ipswich | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Ipswich | - | no account filed |
| June 2004 | Hail | Ipswich | - | no account filed |
| August 2004 | Hail | Ipswich | - | no account filed |
| August 2004 | Hail | Ipswich | - | no account filed |
| September 2003 | Hail | Ipswich | - | no account filed |
| August 2003 | Hail | Ipswich | - | no account filed |
| August 2002 | Hail | Ipswich | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Ipswich | - | no account filed |
| June 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ipswich | - | no account filed |
| July 1999 | Hail | Ipswich | - | no account filed |
| July 1999 | Hail | Ipswich | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Ipswich | - | no account filed |
| July 1998 | Hail | Ipswich | - | no account filed |
| July 1998 | Hail | Ipswich | - | no account filed |
| July 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ipswich | - | no account filed |
| July 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ipswich | - | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Hail | Ipswich | - | 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
6 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Edmunds County Courthouse | under 500 feet | 2000 | |
| Ipswich Baptist Church | under 500 feet | 1978 | |
| J. W. Parmley House | 0.2 miles | 1980 | |
| Marcus Beebe House | 0.3 miles | 1976 | |
| Marcus P. Beebe Library | 0.6 miles | 1977 | |
 | Ipswich State Bank | 0.6 miles | 1978 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100005320 in Record Group 79. |
| Edmunds County | All 11 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.