Swedish Lutheran Church of Strandburg

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.

From the record

“Swedish Lutheran Church of Strandburg (now Tabor Lutheran Church of Strandburg) is a historic church on Main Street in Strandburg, South Dakota. It is affiliated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.”
Wikipedia article Swedish Lutheran Church of Strandburg, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 15 National Register listings published here for Grant County · listed in 1978 · 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. Main St., Strandburg, 57265
When was it listed? February 1978
Category. building
Township. Troy township
National Register reference number. 78002556 - 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

21 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Swedish Lutheran Church of Strandburg between 2000 and 2020, burning about 142 acres in total. None 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	17
Debris and open burning	2
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
29 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	RABINE
23 August 2000	Debris and open burning	40 acres	South Shore Volunteer Fire Department	MIETIS
1 August 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	471ST AVE & 171ST ST
11 June 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
11 June 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
7 May 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	CROP RESIDUE FIRE
9 April 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	STOCKHOLM
9 April 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	BNSF 1

Every fire recorded in Grant County

Mines and quarries near this property

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Swedish Lutheran Church of Strandburg: 3 past producers, 1 producer. 1 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
Wheeler Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Grant County

Storms near this property

5 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Strandburg, the town this property stands in, in 5 storm reports between 1994 and 2022: 5 hail. 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
May 1994	Hail	Strandburg	$50,000	The hail broke windows, and damaged shingles, siding, and vehicles. There was undetermined crop damage.
September 2022	Hail	Strandburg	-	The timing and location of the report are approximated.
July 2011	Hail	Strandburg	-	no account filed
June 2006	Hail	Strandburg	-	no account filed
June 2006	Hail	Strandburg	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Grant 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

1 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.

Photograph	Property	Distance	Listed
	Brown Earth Presbyterian Church	5.7 miles	1984

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 78002556 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Grant 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.
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.
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.