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One of 15 National Register listings published here for Charles Mix County · listed in 2012 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Marty Mission School Gymnasium and St. Therese Hall
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
- Address. SW. corner of 303rd St. & 388th Ave., Marty, 57380
- When was it listed? January 2012
- Category. building
- Also known as. Schools in South Dakota MPS
- Township. Wahehe township
- National Register reference number. 11001012 - 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
94 since 2002Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 94 fires within 5 miles of Marty Mission School Gymnasium and St. Therese Hall between 2002 and 2020, burning about 469 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 15 were 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 | 40 |
| Debris and open burning | 19 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 15 |
| Fireworks | 10 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 5 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 September 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 25 acres | Yankton Agency | A0803012 |
| 5 September 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Yankton Agency | MARTY 1 |
| 30 September 2002 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wagner Volunteer Fire Department | JIM ROBERTSON |
| 11 September 2005 | Fireworks | 1.0 acres | Yankton Agency | A0805023 |
| 3 August 2003 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Yankton Agency | A0803008 |
| 2 August 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Yankton Agency | A0803007 |
| 19 August 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 20 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | GRANITE |
| 16 August 2004 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Yankton Agency | BDRO |
Storms near this property
24 since 2001Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Marty, the town this property stands in, in 24 storm reports between 2001 and 2025: 15 hail, 7 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 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 2008 | Tornado (EF1) | Marty | $100,000 | A tornado severely damaged a home, destroyed outbuildings, and damaged storage bins at a farm near Ravinia. The tornado also caused tree damage along its path. |
| June 2020 | Flash Flood | Marty | $50,000 | Water was flowing from 8 to 10 inches deep across 388th Avenue from two miles north of Marty into town. Some residents of Marty were evacuated due to flood waters. Rainfall in the area over just a few hours totaled 3.01 inches near Platte and 2.75 inches near Pickstown. Property damage costs are rough estimates. |
| July 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Marty | $10,000 | Thunderstorm winds rolled and damaged a deputy sheriff's vehicle. The deputy was not injured. |
| April 2025 | Hail | Marty | - | Hail was quarter size and slightly larger. |
| July 2025 | Hail | Marty | - | Hail to quarter size was quite brief and intermixed with heavy rainfall. |
| April 2018 | Hail | Marty | - | Hail continued for 10 minutes after this time. |
| June 2015 | Hail | Marty | - | Quarter size hail was accompanied by rainfall of 1.10 inch. |
| August 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Marty | - | Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including several large branches blown down. |
| August 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Marty | - | Thunderstorm winds caused minor tree damage. |
| August 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Marty | - | Thunderstorm winds blew the door off a shed and caused tree damage, including large branches blown down. |
| August 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Marty | - | Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including a few trees and numerous large branches blown down. |
| August 2001 | Hail | Marty | - | Large hail fell in an area from near Marty east to Dante, including the town of Wagner. Damage was reported to vehicles and crops, but the amount of damage was not known. |
| June 2020 | Hail | Marty | - | no account filed |
| June 2019 | Hail | Marty | - | no account filed |
| June 2015 | Hail | Marty | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Marty | - | no account filed |
| August 2007 | Hail | Marty | - | no account filed |
| August 2007 | Hail | Marty | - | no account filed |
| September 2005 | Hail | Marty | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Marty | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Marty | - | no account filed |
| July 2002 | Hail | Marty | - | no account filed |
| July 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Marty | - | no account filed |
| August 2001 | Hail | Marty | - | 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
3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rising Hail Colony | 3.0 miles | 1975 | |
| Holy Fellowship Episcopal Church | 5.3 miles | 1975 | |
| Pickstown Fire and Police Station | 7.5 miles | 2020 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 11001012 in Record Group 79. |
| Charles Mix County | All 15 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.