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One of 22 National Register listings published here for Spink County · listed in 2024 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Turton Jail
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2024.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 350 feet west/northwest of the intersection of Ash and Front Streets, Turton, 57477
- When was it listed? January 2024
- Category. building
- Town. Turton town
- National Register reference number. 100009862 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
14 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Turton Jail between 1999 and 2013, burning about 623 acres in total. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 6 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 5 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 September 2002 | Equipment and vehicle use | 85 acres | Turton Volunteer Fire Department | MEYERS |
| 25 September 2000 | Debris and open burning | 80 acres | Conde Volunteer Fire Department | RICHARD WORLIE |
| 22 September 2013 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Spink County | WAYNE WRIGHT |
| 20 August 1999 | Debris and open burning | 15 acres | Turton Volunteer Fire Department | MILES |
| 6 June 2002 | Natural | 20 acres | Turton Volunteer Fire Department | ROLAND B. |
| 21 May 2005 | Natural | under an acre | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | not named |
| 10 April 2000 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Conde Volunteer Fire Department | DOYLE TRUCK |
| 11 November 2001 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Conde Volunteer Fire Department | DANNY MILES |
Storms near this property
35 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Turton, the town this property stands in, in 35 storm reports between 1993 and 2023: 22 hail, 12 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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 | Turton | - | A CO-OP observer reported a grain leg at the local grain elevator was tipped over due to high winds. |
| June 2020 | Tornado (EF0) | Turton | - | A tornado touched down briefly east southeast of Turton with no damage occurring. |
| July 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Turton | - | Estimated sixty mph winds took some shingles off a building and caused some minor corn damage. |
| May 2017 | Hail | Turton | - | Some golf ball hail fell east of Turton. |
| July 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Turton | - | Seventy mph winds were estimated. |
| August 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Turton | - | An estimated thunderstorm wind gust of seventy to eighty mph was reported. |
| August 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Turton | - | Numerous trees along with power lines were downed by eighty mph winds. A building was also moved fifty feet off of it's foundation. |
| August 2023 | Hail | Turton | - | no account filed |
| May 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Turton | - | no account filed |
| July 2021 | Hail | Turton | - | no account filed |
| July 2021 | Hail | Turton | - | no account filed |
| June 2020 | Hail | Turton | - | no account filed |
| July 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Turton | - | no account filed |
| March 2012 | Hail | Turton | - | no account filed |
| August 2008 | Hail | Turton | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Hail | Turton | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Turton | - | no account filed |
| June 2003 | Hail | Turton | - | no account filed |
| August 2003 | Hail | Turton | - | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Hail | Turton | - | no account filed |
| August 2002 | Hail | Turton | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Turton | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Turton | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Turton | - | no account filed |
| May 2000 | Hail | Turton | - | no account filed |
| May 2000 | Hail | Turton | - | no account filed |
| July 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Turton | - | no account filed |
| August 1999 | Hail | Turton | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Turton | - | no account filed |
| July 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Turton | - | no account filed |
| July 1997 | Hail | Turton | - | no account filed |
| July 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Turton | - | no account filed |
| July 1996 | Hail | Turton | - | no account filed |
| August 1993 | Hail | Turton | - | no account filed |
| August 1993 | Thunderstorm Wind | Turton | - | 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
2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| First Congregational Church | 0.2 miles | 1979 | |
| Conde Municipal Building | 7.6 miles | 2024 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100009862 in Record Group 79. |
| Spink County | All 22 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.