Molstad Lake Park

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010.

From the record

One of 10 National Register listings published here for Walworth County · listed in 2010 · 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 4 objectss, 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 1 3/4 mi N of HWY 12 on 293rd Ave, Glenham, 57631
When was it listed? November 2010
Category. district
Also known as. Federal Relief Construction in South Dakota MPS
Unorganized territory. West Walworth
National Register reference number. 10000953 - 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

26 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 26 fires within 5 miles of Molstad Lake Park between 1999 and 2018, burning about 3,886 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 1 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	14
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Smoking	2
Natural	2
Arson/incendiarism	1
Debris and open burning	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
21 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	0
21 August 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	SPOTTY
9 July 2015	Railroad operations and maintenance	4.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	BRIDGE
6 July 2006	Railroad operations and maintenance	2,500 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	1804
29 July 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.9 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	SHOE HILLS
2 July 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	CREEK
12 July 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
1 July 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	MOLSTAD

Every fire recorded in Walworth County

Storms near this property

28 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Glenham, the town this property stands in, in 28 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 15 hail, 10 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 1 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
September 2025	Tornado (EF1)	Glenham	-	The tornado tracked north-northwest over mainly open country near the city of Mobridge. This tornado initially hit a farmstead where damage was observed to a grain silo. It then tipped two semi-trailers on SD Highway 1804. The tornado destroyed an outbuilding at another farmstead located a mile south of US Highway 12. As the tornado crossed US Highway 12, it overturned a camper being pulled by a vehicle and bent a power pole. After crossing US Highway 12, the tornado tracked just west of 290th Avenue, taking down a series of six power poles that were either completely broken or severely bent before the tornado dissipated.
June 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Glenham	-	A national weather service employee estimated the wind speeds between 60 and 70 mph.
April 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Glenham	-	Damage to brick roof/facade on the old school building.
July 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Glenham	-	Sixty mph winds were estimated.
July 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Glenham	-	Sixty-five mph winds were estimated.
June 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Glenham	-	An estimated eighty mph wind destroyed a ten unit storage shed. The back wall was pushed over with metal spread downwind up to a quarter mile. The boats inside were not moved.
June 2018	Tornado (EF0)	Glenham	-	A tornado touched downed briefly just northeast of Glenham. No damage was reported.
May 2018	Flood	Glenham	-	Flooding continued through the night and through the next day across the region. Agricultural land along with many roads were flooded.
May 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Glenham	-	Winds gusting to 80 mph caused some damage in and around Glenham. Part of a cattle shed was blown into some power lines which in turn downed two power poles. A pole barn was destroyed south of Glenham with part of the pole barn downing another power pole. A couple of buildings were also moved off of their foundation. Some trees and branches were also downed.
June 2022	Hail	Glenham	-	no account filed
July 2021	Hail	Glenham	-	no account filed
August 2021	Hail	Glenham	-	no account filed
July 2020	Hail	Glenham	-	no account filed
July 2019	Hail	Glenham	-	no account filed
July 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Glenham	-	no account filed
June 2018	Hail	Glenham	-	no account filed
August 2012	Hail	Glenham	-	no account filed
August 2012	Hail	Glenham	-	no account filed
August 2012	Hail	Glenham	-	no account filed
August 2012	Hail	Glenham	-	no account filed
August 2011	Hail	Glenham	-	no account filed
August 2008	Hail	Glenham	-	no account filed
June 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Glenham	-	no account filed
June 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Glenham	-	no account filed
July 2001	Hail	Glenham	-	no account filed
August 1998	Hail	Glenham	-	no account filed
July 1996	Hail	Glenham	-	no account filed
August 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Glenham	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Walworth 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
Johnson Barn	2.8 miles	2005
Mobridge Masonic Temple	6.4 miles	1977
A. H. Brown Public Library	6.4 miles	1978
Mobridge Auditorium	6.5 miles	1986
Brown Palace Hotel	6.5 miles	1983
Brown-Evans House	6.5 miles	1990

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 10000953 in Record Group 79.
Walworth County	All 10 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.