Photograph of Fort Pierre Congregational Church — Photograph by Jeffrey Beall, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

United Church of Christ, Congregational

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.

From the record

“The Fort Pierre Congregational Church is a historic church in Fort Pierre, South Dakota. It was built in 1908-09 and was added to the National Register in 1977 as the United Church of Christ, Congregational.”
Wikipedia article Fort Pierre Congregational Church, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 8 National Register listings published here for Stanley County · listed in 1977 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · 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. 2nd and Main St., Fort Pierre, 57532
When was it listed? December 1977
Category. building
City. Fort Pierre city
National Register reference number. 77001258 - 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

71 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 71 fires within 5 miles of United Church of Christ, Congregational between 1996 and 2020, burning about 2,041 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 1 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	41
Fireworks	10
Equipment and vehicle use	9
Debris and open burning	5
Natural	3
Other causes	1
Smoking	1
Arson/incendiarism	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
30 September 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	ORV CA
30 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	30 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	4-WHEELER GRASS FIRE
25 September 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	200 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	BUICK FIRE
22 September 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	WYLE CA
22 September 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	WYLY
19 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	40 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	GRASS FIRE
15 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	600 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	GRASS FIRE
15 September 1996	Debris and open burning	30 acres	Huron Wetland Management District	HYDE

Every fire recorded in Stanley County

Mines and quarries near this property

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of United Church of Christ, Congregational: 3 past producers, 2 producers, 1 unknown. 2 still produce. 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
Buffalo Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Buffalo Pit #2	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Corps of Engineers Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Phillips Terrace Pits	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Polo Grounds Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Stanley County Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Stanley 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.

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Old Fort Pierre School	under 500 feet	1977
Jefferson Davis Carr House	under 500 feet	1982
La Verendrye Site	0.2 miles	1974
American Legion Community Hall	0.2 miles	2017
Stockgrowers Bank Building	0.3 miles	1977
Gaylord Sumner House	0.4 miles	1977

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 77001258 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Stanley County	All 8 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.