Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.
From the record
“The Hyde County Courthouse is located at 412 Commercial Street SE in Highmore, the county seat of Hyde County, South Dakota. It is a rectangular masonry structure, two stories in height, set on a high basement.”
Wikipedia article Hyde County Courthouse (South Dakota), CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 3 National Register listings published here for Hyde County · listed in 1978 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.78002558- 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 1999
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Hyde County Courthouse
between 1999 and 2016, burning about 536 acres in total. 6 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
9
Natural
6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
6
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Highmore, the town this property stands in, in 86 storm reports between 1993 and 2024: 40 thunderstorm wind, 40 hail, 4 flash flood, 2 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.
A privacy fence was blown over, and a large window was broken by an object that had become a projectile in the severe wind. The timing of the wind was estimated based on radar.
Seventy mph winds caused significant damage to the crow's nest and the bleachers at the football field along with downing several large trees in Highmore. Also, the destruction of a liquid fertilizer pump shed caused damage to pipes creating a 5000 gallon plus chemical spill.
Seventy to 80 mph winds brought down several large trees along with many large tree branches in and around Highmore. The strong winds also tipped over a semi, a gravity wagon, and a grain auger along with damaging several fences. There were also power outages in Highmore.
A supercell thunderstorm continued on its track to the southeast producing another weak tornado north of Highmore. The tornado crossed highway 14. No damage occurred with this tornado.
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
2 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.
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.
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