Inland Theater

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013.

From the record

“The Inland Theater is a historic theater located in Martin, Bennett County, South Dakota, United States. The Inland Theater is the second theater constructed in the city of Martin.”
Wikipedia article Inland Theater, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 1 National Register listings published here for Bennett County · listed in 2013 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · 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. 306 Main, Martin, 57551
When was it listed? July 2013
Category. building
City. Martin city
Architectural style. Art Deco architecture
National Register reference number. 13000570 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

47 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 47 fires within 5 miles of Inland Theater between 2000 and 2020, burning about 932 acres in total. 4 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	13
Equipment and vehicle use	8
Fireworks	6
Misuse of fire by a minor	5
Natural	4
Other causes	3
Debris and open burning	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
8 September 2009	Natural	3.0 acres	Pine Ridge Agency	ALVIN FROST
27 September 2001	Power generation/transmission/distribution	5.0 acres	Martin Volunteer Fire Department	KNECHT
25 September 2012	Misuse of fire by a minor	1.0 acres	Pine Ridge Agency	SOUTH SUNRISE
2 September 2000	Natural	5.0 acres	Martin Volunteer Fire Department	LOUDEN
18 September 2012	Natural	under an acre	Pine Ridge Agency	FORTY
13 September 2017	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Pine Ridge Agency	PICKLE
6 August 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	OAT FIRE
26 August 2012	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Pine Ridge Agency	HENSCHEL

Every fire recorded in Bennett County

Storms near this property

60 of 126 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Martin, the town this property stands in, in 126 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 76 hail, 41 thunderstorm wind, 4 flash flood, 3 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
August 2011	Hail	Martin	$700,000	Large hail damaged buildings and vehicles in Martin.
May 2005	Hail	Martin	$250,000	no account filed
August 2011	Hail	Martin	$35,000	no account filed
June 2024	Hail	Martin	$25,000	Baseball to softball sized hail caused significant damage to home and vehicle.
June 2024	Hail	Martin	$10,000	Large hail damaged a vehicle, including a broken windshield.
July 2015	Hail	Martin	$10,000	no account filed
June 2007	Hail	Martin	$5,000	Large hail and strong winds broke most of the windows in a house.
May 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Martin	$5,000	Metal roofs blown off of small sheds.
June 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Martin	$5,000	Wind blew over a greenhouse.
July 2015	Flash Flood	Martin	$2,000	Flash flooding washed out several fences and water covered a driveway about three miles east of Martin.
June 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Martin	-	Public reported an estimated wind gust.
August 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Martin	-	Wind driven hail broke windows at 3 houses near the junction of highways 18 and 73 in Martin.
June 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Martin	-	Combination of hail and wind broke multiple windows downtown. Power pole damage caused a power outage in Martin.
June 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Martin	-	Combination of hail and wind caused damage to a building and sign.
June 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Martin	-	The spotter estimated wind gusts at 60 mph.
July 2021	Hail	Martin	-	Most of the hail was small, but a few were near ping pong ball size.
June 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Martin	-	Wind gusts were estimated at 60 mph.
June 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Martin	-	The roof was partially torn off a home.
June 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Martin	-	Strong winds downed tree branches, with minor damage to the deck of the home.
May 2019	Heavy Rain	Martin	-	A resident measured 5.8 inches of rain in 24 hours.
August 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Martin	-	Wind gusts to 60 mph were reported with the storm.
September 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Martin	-	Wind gusts were estimated at 60 mph.
June 2018	Hail	Martin	-	Windows were broken by large hail.
September 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Martin	-	Wind gusts were estimated at 60 mph.
October 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Martin	-	The spotter estimated wind gusts at 60 mph.
July 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Martin	-	The spotter estimated wind gusts at 60 mph.
June 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Martin	-	Wind gusts were estimated at 60 mph.
June 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Martin	-	The spotter estimated wind gusts reached 70 mph.
July 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Martin	-	The spotter reported wind gusts at 60 mph.
June 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Martin	-	Wind gusts were estimated at 60 mph.
October 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Martin	-	A spotter estimated wind gusts of 60 mph.
July 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Martin	-	A spotter reported 60 mph wind gusts.
August 2011	Hail	Martin	-	The ground was covered with hail.
June 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Martin	-	Small tree branches were blown down.
May 2007	Hail	Martin	-	Hail covered the ground.
June 2006	Hail	Martin	-	50 MPH winds with hail.
July 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Martin	-	Three inch diameter tree branches were broken off.
July 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Martin	-	1 foot diameter tree down in Martin along with dime sized hail.
July 2000	Wildfire	Martin	-	Lightning caused three fires which burned 8,000 acres of land in southwestern Bennett County. The fires were contained within 24 hours.
June 1999	Tornado (F0)	Martin	-	Weak tornado that touched down briefly. Path width and length estimated from reports.
June 1999	Tornado (F0)	Martin	-	Brief touchdown. Path width and length estimated.
July 1997	Hail	Martin	-	Hail was two inches deep on ground.
August 2024	Hail	Martin	-	no account filed
August 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Martin	-	no account filed
June 2024	Hail	Martin	-	no account filed
June 2024	Hail	Martin	-	no account filed
June 2024	Hail	Martin	-	no account filed
June 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Martin	-	no account filed
July 2024	Hail	Martin	-	no account filed
September 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Martin	-	no account filed
May 2022	Hail	Martin	-	no account filed
July 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Martin	-	no account filed
August 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Martin	-	no account filed
July 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Martin	-	no account filed
July 2020	Hail	Martin	-	no account filed
July 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Martin	-	no account filed
June 2020	Hail	Martin	-	no account filed
June 2020	Hail	Martin	-	no account filed
June 2018	Hail	Martin	-	no account filed
July 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Martin	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Bennett 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 13000570 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Bennett County	All 1 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.