First Congregational Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

From the record

“The First Congregational Church is a historic church in Turton, South Dakota. It was built in 1893 and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.”
Wikipedia article First Congregational Church (Turton, South Dakota), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 22 National Register listings published here for Spink County · listed in 1979 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · 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. Oak and 2nd Sts., Turton, 57477
When was it listed? September 1979
Category. building
Town. Turton town
National Register reference number. 79002407 - 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

13 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of First Congregational Church between 1999 and 2013, burning about 538 acres in total. 2 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
Debris and open burning	6
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Natural	2
Smoking	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
25 September 2000	Debris and open burning	80 acres	Conde Volunteer Fire Department	RICHARD WORLIE
22 September 2013	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Spink County	WAYNE WRIGHT
20 August 1999	Debris and open burning	15 acres	Turton Volunteer Fire Department	MILES
6 June 2002	Natural	20 acres	Turton Volunteer Fire Department	ROLAND B.
21 May 2005	Natural	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
10 April 2000	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Conde Volunteer Fire Department	DOYLE TRUCK
11 November 2001	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Conde Volunteer Fire Department	DANNY MILES
29 October 2006	Smoking	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named

Every fire recorded in Spink County

Storms near this property

35 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Turton, the town this property stands in, in 35 storm reports between 1993 and 2023: 22 hail, 12 thunderstorm wind, 1 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
July 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Turton	-	A CO-OP observer reported a grain leg at the local grain elevator was tipped over due to high winds.
June 2020	Tornado (EF0)	Turton	-	A tornado touched down briefly east southeast of Turton with no damage occurring.
July 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Turton	-	Estimated sixty mph winds took some shingles off a building and caused some minor corn damage.
May 2017	Hail	Turton	-	Some golf ball hail fell east of Turton.
July 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Turton	-	Seventy mph winds were estimated.
August 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Turton	-	An estimated thunderstorm wind gust of seventy to eighty mph was reported.
August 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Turton	-	Numerous trees along with power lines were downed by eighty mph winds. A building was also moved fifty feet off of it's foundation.
August 2023	Hail	Turton	-	no account filed
May 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Turton	-	no account filed
July 2021	Hail	Turton	-	no account filed
July 2021	Hail	Turton	-	no account filed
June 2020	Hail	Turton	-	no account filed
July 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Turton	-	no account filed
March 2012	Hail	Turton	-	no account filed
August 2008	Hail	Turton	-	no account filed
June 2006	Hail	Turton	-	no account filed
June 2005	Hail	Turton	-	no account filed
June 2003	Hail	Turton	-	no account filed
August 2003	Hail	Turton	-	no account filed
June 2002	Hail	Turton	-	no account filed
August 2002	Hail	Turton	-	no account filed
June 2001	Hail	Turton	-	no account filed
June 2001	Hail	Turton	-	no account filed
June 2001	Hail	Turton	-	no account filed
May 2000	Hail	Turton	-	no account filed
May 2000	Hail	Turton	-	no account filed
July 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Turton	-	no account filed
August 1999	Hail	Turton	-	no account filed
June 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Turton	-	no account filed
July 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Turton	-	no account filed
July 1997	Hail	Turton	-	no account filed
July 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Turton	-	no account filed
July 1996	Hail	Turton	-	no account filed
August 1993	Hail	Turton	-	no account filed
August 1993	Thunderstorm Wind	Turton	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Spink 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

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.

Photograph	Property	Distance	Listed
	Turton Jail	0.2 miles	2024
	Conde Municipal Building	7.4 miles	2024

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 79002407 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Spink County	All 22 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.
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.