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Parmley Land Office

Built in 1900. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

From the record

One of 11 National Register listings published here for Edmunds County · listed in 1979 · category: Building · built in 1900.

Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. Main St., Ipswich, 57451
  • When was it listed? March 1979
  • Category. building
  • City. Ipswich city
  • When was it built? 1900
  • National Register reference number. 79002402 - 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

30 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 30 fires within 5 miles of Parmley Land Office between 1998 and 2020, burning about 602 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/undetermined19
Debris and open burning4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Other causes1
Recreation and ceremony1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
22 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionSYLTE
27 August 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresEdmunds CountyLDL FIRE
18 July 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresEdmunds CountyDOC MEYER RR
13 July 2015Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionCRAVEN RAILROAD
5 June 2017Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionTDO
5 May 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined200 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionCRP
27 May 2020Equipment and vehicle use20 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionPENFIELD
23 May 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined50 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named

Every fire recorded in Edmunds County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Parmley Land Office: 2 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Ipswich Sand and Gravel Co PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Edmunds County

Storms near this property

60 of 63 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ipswich, the town this property stands in, in 63 storm reports between 1993 and 2024: 39 hail, 18 thunderstorm wind, 3 tornado, 3 flash 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2022Thunderstorm WindIpswich-The public reported an estimated wind gust of 60 mph in Ipswich.
August 2021HailIpswich-A hail swath determined by high resolution satellite imagery along with surface reports occurred from Edmunds County east across southern Brown into Day Counties. The largest hail size was baseball size. The scar dimensions covered approximately 70 square miles in Edmunds County. The start location was approximately 5 miles southwest of Ipswich, and it continued in an east southeast orientation to the Brown County line approximately 5 miles south of Mina Lake. Drone and photo evidence of damage in this area suggest substantial to total crop losses.
August 2021HailIpswich-Golf ball sized hail broke ten windows at a residence.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindIpswich-A tree was toppled over by estimated seventy mph winds.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindIpswich-A large tree was downed in Ipswich which damaged the fence it fell upon. Some other branches were also downed in town.
August 2016Thunderstorm WindIpswich-Seventy-five mph winds brought many trees down along with many large branches throughout Ipswich.
July 2015Flash FloodIpswich-Heavy rains resulted in water flowing over South Dakota State Highway 45 just south of Ipswich.
August 2014Flash FloodIpswich-Very heavy rains resulted in water over County Road 13 north of Ipswich.
May 2010Thunderstorm WindIpswich-A ninety mph wind was measured at Pembrook Colony.
May 2010Thunderstorm WindIpswich-Eighty mph winds downed many trees in Ipswich.
June 2006HailIpswich-Hail from penny to golfball size fell for almost 45 minutes.
June 2006Flash FloodIpswich-Heavy rains of 3 to 5 inches flooded several roads and fields 10 miles north of Ipswich.
June 2005Tornado (F0)Ipswich-A tornado touched down briefly north of Ipswich causing no damage.
July 2005Thunderstorm WindIpswich-Many branches were downed in Ipswich.
July 2000Thunderstorm WindIpswich-High winds to 70 mph rolled round haybales about 50 feet, blew a well cover onto a car, and blew a calf shelter nearly 50 feet
July 1999HailIpswich-Golfball size hail and high winds destroyed hundreds of acres of crops on a farm southeast of Ipswich.
July 1995Thunderstorm WindIpswich-Winds gusting to 80 mph uprooted and damaged several trees. Also, many power and cable lines were downed along with some buildings being damaged.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindIpswich-no account filed
April 2022Thunderstorm WindIpswich-no account filed
July 2022HailIpswich-no account filed
July 2022HailIpswich-no account filed
July 2019HailIpswich-no account filed
July 2016HailIpswich-no account filed
July 2016HailIpswich-no account filed
May 2010HailIpswich-no account filed
May 2010HailIpswich-no account filed
May 2010HailIpswich-no account filed
May 2010HailIpswich-no account filed
May 2010HailIpswich-no account filed
September 2009HailIpswich-no account filed
September 2009HailIpswich-no account filed
August 2009HailIpswich-no account filed
June 2006HailIpswich-no account filed
June 2006HailIpswich-no account filed
May 2006Thunderstorm WindIpswich-no account filed
July 2006Thunderstorm WindIpswich-no account filed
June 2006HailIpswich-no account filed
June 2006HailIpswich-no account filed
September 2006HailIpswich-no account filed
June 2005HailIpswich-no account filed
July 2005Thunderstorm WindIpswich-no account filed
May 2004Tornado (F0)Ipswich-no account filed
May 2004Tornado (F0)Ipswich-no account filed
May 2004HailIpswich-no account filed
June 2004HailIpswich-no account filed
August 2004HailIpswich-no account filed
August 2004HailIpswich-no account filed
September 2003HailIpswich-no account filed
August 2003HailIpswich-no account filed
August 2002HailIpswich-no account filed
June 2001HailIpswich-no account filed
June 2000Thunderstorm WindIpswich-no account filed
July 1999HailIpswich-no account filed
July 1999HailIpswich-no account filed
June 1998HailIpswich-no account filed
July 1998HailIpswich-no account filed
July 1998HailIpswich-no account filed
July 1998Thunderstorm WindIpswich-no account filed
July 1998Thunderstorm WindIpswich-no account filed
May 1996HailIpswich-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Edmunds 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Ipswich State Bank0.2 miles1978
Marcus P. Beebe Library0.2 miles1977
J. W. Parmley House0.5 miles1980
Ipswich Baptist Church0.6 miles1978
Ipswich Masonic Temple0.6 miles2020
Edmunds County Courthouse0.7 miles2000

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 79002402 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Edmunds CountyAll 11 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.