St. Onge Schoolhouse

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

From the record

One of 57 National Register listings published here for Lawrence County · listed in 1980 · category: Building.

Sources: 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. Off SD 24, St. Onge, 57779
When was it listed? May 1980
Category. building
Township. St. Onge township
National Register reference number. 80003727 - 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

31 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 31 fires within 5 miles of St. Onge Schoolhouse between 1992 and 2016, burning about 53 acres in total. 13 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
Natural	13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	11
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Debris and open burning	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
2 September 2000	Natural	3.0 acres	Minnekahta Volunteer Fire Department	SATURDAY
1 September 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
8 August 1992	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	JENSON HAYSTACK
7 August 2016	Natural	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	ACORN
7 August 2011	Natural	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	BELL
7 August 2005	Natural	1.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
7 August 2002	Natural	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	PINE HILLS FIRE
30 August 2010	Natural	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	SPRING CREEK

Every fire recorded in Lawrence County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of St. Onge Schoolhouse: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	H Clay Prod.Grog Pit	Clay	Producer

Every working recorded in Lawrence 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Thomas Quillian House	under 500 feet	1991
Woodmen Hall	0.2 miles	1991
Saint Onge State Bank	0.2 miles	2005
Rasmus and Elemine Anderson Homestead Ranch	2.9 miles	2015
Frawley Historic Ranch	4.8 miles	1974
McLaughlin Ranch Barn	5.1 miles	2002

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 80003727 in Record Group 79.
Lawrence County	All 57 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.