Wewela Hall

Built in 1926. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010.

From the record

“Wewela Hall, in Wewela, South Dakota, was built in 1926. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010.”
Wikipedia article Wewela Hall, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 5 National Register listings published here for Tripp County · listed in 2010 · category: Building · built in 1926.

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 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. Lots 3 and 4, Block 34, Government Townsite of Wewela, Wewela, 57580
When was it listed? November 2010
Category. building
Township. Rames township
When was it built? 1926
National Register reference number. 10000952 - 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

5 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Wewela Hall between 2000 and 2017, burning about 83 acres in total. 3 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	3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2

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
24 July 2017	Natural	40 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	ANDERSON
24 July 2000	Natural	1.0 acres	Colome Volunteer Fire Department	CLIFTON PAULSON
15 July 2000	Natural	1.0 acres	Colome Volunteer Fire Department	CLIF PAULSON
17 May 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	14-008 ERICKSON RX
31 October 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	40 acres	Colome Volunteer Fire Department	CLIFTON PAULSON

Every fire recorded in Tripp 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 Wewela Hall: 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
	Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Tripp County

Storms near this property

28 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wewela, the town this property stands in, in 28 storm reports between 2002 and 2025: 16 thunderstorm wind, 11 hail, 1 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
June 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Wewela	-	SD mesonet recorded wind gust.
August 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Wewela	-	SD Mesonet recorded wind gust.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Wewela	-	Occasional gusts of 60 to 70 mph lasted over 30 minutes.
August 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Wewela	-	Wind gusts were estimated at 60 mph.
August 2019	Flash Flood	Wewela	-	Runoff from two to three inches of rain caused flash flooding around Wewela. A few roads, including 328th Avenue, 331st Avenue, and 229th Street were covered with water.
August 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Wewela	-	Winds were estimated at 60 mph.
August 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Wewela	-	Wind gusts were estimated at 60 mph.
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Wewela	-	Trees down on property.
August 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Wewela	-	Four inch diameter tree limbs were blown down.
July 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Wewela	-	no account filed
July 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Wewela	-	no account filed
June 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Wewela	-	no account filed
May 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Wewela	-	no account filed
July 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Wewela	-	no account filed
August 2020	Hail	Wewela	-	no account filed
July 2019	Hail	Wewela	-	no account filed
June 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Wewela	-	no account filed
May 2018	Hail	Wewela	-	no account filed
July 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Wewela	-	no account filed
July 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Wewela	-	no account filed
July 2013	Hail	Wewela	-	no account filed
August 2011	Hail	Wewela	-	no account filed
June 2011	Hail	Wewela	-	no account filed
June 2009	Hail	Wewela	-	no account filed
April 2008	Hail	Wewela	-	no account filed
April 2008	Hail	Wewela	-	no account filed
April 2007	Hail	Wewela	-	no account filed
June 2005	Hail	Wewela	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Tripp 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

1 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.

Photograph	Property	Distance	Listed
	South Dakota Dept. of Transportation Bridge No. 62-220-512	2.0 miles	1993

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 10000952 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Tripp County	All 5 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.