BlockFrom the record
One of 2 National Register listings published here for Lyman County · listed in 2014 · category: Site.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Iron Nation's Gravesite
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 site, 1 object as contributing to the listing.
- Address. Messiah Cemetery, Iron Nation District, Lower Brule Sioux Reservation, Lower Brule, 57548
- When was it listed? February 2014
- Category. site
- Unorganized territory. Lower Brule
- National Register reference number. 14000032 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
81 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 81 fires within 5 miles of Iron Nation's Gravesite between 1992 and 2018, burning about 1,596 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| Fireworks | 15 |
| Debris and open burning | 15 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 12 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 11 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 8 |
| Smoking | 7 |
| Natural | 5 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Other causes | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 September 2007 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Lower Brule Agency | CAMP |
| 4 September 2005 | Misuse of fire by a minor | 2.0 acres | Lower Brule Agency | LAD |
| 26 September 2004 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Lower Brule Agency | CAMP FIRE |
| 16 September 2012 | Misuse of fire by a minor | 21 acres | Lower Brule Agency | IRON NATION |
| 12 September 2003 | Fireworks | under an acre | Lower Brule Agency | CASINO |
| 9 August 2006 | Natural | under an acre | Lower Brule Agency | RONNY |
| 8 August 2010 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Crow Creek Agency | BUZZY |
| 8 August 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 8.0 acres | Lower Brule Agency | IRON |
Storms near this property
45 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lower Brule, the town this property stands in, in 45 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 21 hail, 20 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 2 tornado. The reports record 2 deaths. 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 2011 | Flash Flood | Lower Brule | 2 killed | Very heavy rainfall of 5 to 7 inches brought flash flooding to mainly eastern Lyman county. Many roads were flooded with some washed out. Two women died in two separate vehicles after driving into a washed out portion of a road. One woman was found 100 yards downstream while the other woman was found 4 miles downstream. The accidents were believed to happen between 930 and 10 am. The location was 9 miles north of Reliance on BIA 10 just north of the intersection with Highway 47. |
| July 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lower Brule | - | A trained spotter estimated the winds at 75 mph. |
| July 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lower Brule | - | A peak wind gust of 80 mph was observed by the South Dakota State University mesonet station near Lower Brule. West Central Electric Cooperative reported multiple power outages due to broken poles and wires in and around Lower Brule. |
| August 2025 | Flash Flood | Lower Brule | - | A trained spotter reported water flowing over the roads in West Brule. |
| June 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lower Brule | - | A South Dakota Mesonet weather station recorded a wind gust of 82 mph. |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lower Brule | - | A trained spotter estimated 70 mph winds, which caused tree damage and downed powerlines. Solar panels were also damaged. |
| June 2022 | Tornado (EFU) | Lower Brule | - | A tornado was observed to be moving east-northeasterly for a short time before becoming rain-wrapped. |
| August 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lower Brule | - | Sixty mph winds were estimated. |
| August 2019 | Hail | Lower Brule | - | Tennis to baseball size hail damaged homes and vehicle windows. |
| August 2019 | Tornado (EF0) | Lower Brule | - | A tornado touched down briefly in an open area west of Lower Brule with no damage reported. |
| June 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lower Brule | - | Sixty mph winds were estimated. |
| June 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lower Brule | - | Estimated seventy mph winds overturned several center pivots and flattened corn and beans. |
| August 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lower Brule | - | Sixty-five mph winds were estimated. |
| June 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lower Brule | - | Ninety mph winds flipped over a pickup truck, removed a large area of shingles on a roof, along with downing many large tree branches. |
| June 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lower Brule | - | One-hundred mph winds or higher caused severe damage in Lower Brule to several buildings along with downing many trees. The roof of the courthouse also sustained damage along with pieces of art destroyed, like tepees at the tribal hall. Light poles at the football field were also bent over. The red cross set up shelter for displaced people. |
| June 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lower Brule | - | Sixty mph winds downed an old weakened tree. |
| June 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lower Brule | - | Sixty-five mph winds brought down several tree branches. |
| June 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lower Brule | - | Seventy mph winds brought down many branches. |
| August 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lower Brule | - | Sixty mph winds were esimated in Lower Brule. |
| July 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lower Brule | - | no account filed |
| July 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lower Brule | - | no account filed |
| July 2025 | Hail | Lower Brule | - | no account filed |
| July 2023 | Hail | Lower Brule | - | no account filed |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lower Brule | - | no account filed |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lower Brule | - | no account filed |
| August 2019 | Hail | Lower Brule | - | no account filed |
| June 2018 | Hail | Lower Brule | - | no account filed |
| August 2018 | Hail | Lower Brule | - | no account filed |
| June 2017 | Hail | Lower Brule | - | no account filed |
| June 2017 | Hail | Lower Brule | - | no account filed |
| June 2017 | Hail | Lower Brule | - | no account filed |
| June 2017 | Hail | Lower Brule | - | no account filed |
| May 2016 | Hail | Lower Brule | - | no account filed |
| June 2015 | Hail | Lower Brule | - | no account filed |
| September 2005 | Hail | Lower Brule | - | no account filed |
| September 2005 | Hail | Lower Brule | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Lower Brule | - | no account filed |
| July 2004 | Hail | Lower Brule | - | no account filed |
| July 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lower Brule | - | no account filed |
| August 2004 | Hail | Lower Brule | - | no account filed |
| August 2004 | Hail | Lower Brule | - | no account filed |
| August 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lower Brule | - | no account filed |
| June 2000 | Hail | Lower Brule | - | no account filed |
| July 1999 | Hail | Lower Brule | - | no account filed |
| July 1996 | Hail | Lower Brule | - | 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.
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 14000032 in Record Group 79. |
| Lyman County | All 2 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.