Built in 1900. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.
From the record
“The Redfield Light Plant and Fire Station, or Redfield Fire Station, at 614 1st St., E, in Redfield, South Dakota, was built in 1900. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.”
Wikipedia article Redfield Light Plant and Fire Station, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 22 National Register listings published here for Spink County · listed in 1978 · category: Building · built in 1900.
National Register reference number.78002569- 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
3 since 1999
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Redfield Light Plant and Fire Station
between 1999 and 2020, burning about 84 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
Railroad operations and maintenance
1
Smoking
1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
1
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 federal mineral resources record lists
2 workings within 5 miles of Redfield Light Plant and Fire Station: 1 producer, 1 past 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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Redfield, the town this property stands in, in 48 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 21 hail, 20 thunderstorm wind, 3 tornado, 3 flood.
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.
Snowmelt resulted in flooding along Turtle Creek. The river gauge at Redfield peaked at 9.90 on 4/19. This flooding mainly affected agricultural lands.
A tornado touched down on the east side of Redfield in the early morning hours. First indications of damage occurred in a corn field west of 386th avenue. Damage was then noted on east 8th avenue where several vehicles had windows damaged and a trailer was flipped into a corn field across the street. Trees along the property line with Farmers Meat Processing were damaged, one tree having landed facing west. Farmers Meat Processing signage was also torn out of the ground. The tornado path became clearly evident in the corn field across east 12th avenue. The tornado then traveled northeast into the Blume Seed Building which lost the west side doors and suffered significant wall damage, with the north wall destroyed. Seed silos on the west side of the building also buckled. The tornado spread debris from the Blume Seed building northeast into the adjacent grass field. A tree on the northeast side of this grass field toppled to the north with tree debris extending across U.S. Highway 212. The circulation from the tornado persisted through several soybean and corn fields and resulted in tree damage near 387th Avenue. The final crop damage was noted just south of 172nd Street.
The tornado track started 2 miles east of Redfield near South Dakota Highway 212. The track was evident through multiple corn fields with the corn completely leveled in some spots. The tornado crossed 172nd street and traveled through a bean field before dissipating.
Winds of 70 to over 100 mph caused a lot of damage in and around Redfield east to Frankfort and south to Tulare. The winds and hail damaged many roofs, crops, outbuildings, downed power lines and poles, and also downed many branches and trees. In Redfield, a trailer home with two occupants, was rolled three to four times over 75 feet. The trailer home rolled over a pickup truck and damaged it. Much of the contents in the trailer home was damaged and the trailer home itself was a total loss. The people inside received minor injuries. A garage was also blown apart in Redfield with the car damaged inside. At the grain elevator in Redfield, several vehicle's windows were broke out by airborne sand and rocks. A street light was ripped from the concrete in Redfield. East of Redfield, a 70 foot silo of over 70 tons was crumbled to the ground and a large tractor shed was blown apart with damage to the contents.
Some large tree limbs were downed in Redfield as a result of the 80 mph winds. Some vehicles sustained damage as a result of tree limbs falling onto them.
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.
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.
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