Harmony Friends Church

Built in 1913. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015.

From the record

One of 13 National Register listings published here for Jerauld County · listed in 2015 · category: Building · built in 1913.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. 225th St. & 372nd Ave., Wessington Springs, 57382
When was it listed? September 2015
Category. building
Township. Harmony township
When was it built? 1913
National Register reference number. 15000565 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

24 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 24 fires within 5 miles of Harmony Friends Church between 2000 and 2020, burning about 867 acres in total. 3 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
Equipment and vehicle use	10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8
Natural	3
Debris and open burning	3

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 August 2002	Equipment and vehicle use	250 acres	Wessington Springs Volunteer Fire Department	HAINY GRASS
6 August 2000	Natural	20 acres	Wessington Springs Volunteer Fire Department	SCHOFIELD
25 August 2017	Natural	1.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	FOOTBALL STORM
15 August 2000	Natural	10 acres	Wessington Springs Volunteer Fire Department	BARTEL
14 August 2003	Equipment and vehicle use	80 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	40001-13 SCHIMKE
7 July 2004	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
18 July 2002	Equipment and vehicle use	120 acres	Wessington Springs Volunteer Fire Department	LANDMARK TOWER
18 July 2002	Equipment and vehicle use	50 acres	Wessington Volunteer Fire Department	MID DAKOTA

Every fire recorded in Jerauld County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Harmony Friends Church: 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Jerauld 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 15000565 in Record Group 79.
Jerauld County	All 13 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.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.