St. Bernard's Catholic Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

From the record

“Anthony of Padua Church is a historic Catholic church in Hoven, South Dakota, within the Diocese of Sioux Falls. Nicknamed "the Cathedral of the Prairie", it is noted for its ornate Romanesque and Gothic Revival architecture, the cost and scale of which are unusual for a small rural town.”
Wikipedia article St. Anthony of Padua Catholic Church (Hoven, South Dakota), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 7 National Register listings published here for Potter County · listed in 1980 · 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. SD 20, Hoven, 57450
When was it listed? May 1980
Category. building
Town. Hoven town
National Register reference number. 80003731 - 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

6 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of St. Bernard's Catholic Church between 1998 and 2015, burning about 204 acres in total. 1 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	3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
Natural	1
Debris and open burning	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
19 August 2015	Natural	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	HWY 20 DITCH FIRE
26 July 2000	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Hoven Volunteer Fire Department	BRAD SIMON FIELD
18 February 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
13 December 1998	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Mound City Volunteer Fire Department	STEVE PARSEN
30 October 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	BIRD
21 October 2000	Equipment and vehicle use	200 acres	Hoven Volunteer Fire Department	LEROY PIERMAN GRASS

Every fire recorded in Potter County

Storms near this property

31 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hoven, the town this property stands in, in 31 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 20 hail, 7 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 funnel cloud. 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 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Hoven	$5,000	Thunderstorm Winds downed some trees and power lines.
August 2025	Hail	Hoven	-	Hail up to three inches in diameter was observed in Hoven. Several other reports of hail between 1.00 and 2.75 inches were received.
June 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Hoven	-	Sixty mph winds were estimated.
July 2015	Flash Flood	Hoven	-	Heavy rains caused the flash flooding of several roads with the gravel being washed away in places.
June 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Hoven	-	Sixty mph winds downed a few branches in Hoven.
July 2011	Tornado (EF0)	Hoven	-	A tornado touched down briefly in Hoven heavily damaging the roof of a business along with downing several trees.
July 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Hoven	-	Sixty mph winds were estimated west of Hoven.
July 2011	Hail	Hoven	-	Golfball size hail damaged some corn.
June 2007	Funnel Cloud	Hoven	-	Several reports of funnel clouds were received from the public in northwest Potter county.
May 2003	Flash Flood	Hoven	-	Heavy rainfall of 2 to 4 inches flooded many county roads in northeast Potter county.
August 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Hoven	-	High winds brought down several large branches in Hoven.
August 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Hoven	-	Strong thunderstorm winds and large hail broke some windows and damaged many acres of crops.
August 2025	Hail	Hoven	-	no account filed
May 2024	Hail	Hoven	-	no account filed
July 2020	Hail	Hoven	-	no account filed
June 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Hoven	-	no account filed
May 2012	Hail	Hoven	-	no account filed
August 2011	Hail	Hoven	-	no account filed
October 2007	Hail	Hoven	-	no account filed
June 2006	Hail	Hoven	-	no account filed
May 2004	Hail	Hoven	-	no account filed
August 2004	Hail	Hoven	-	no account filed
August 2004	Hail	Hoven	-	no account filed
June 2000	Hail	Hoven	-	no account filed
June 2000	Hail	Hoven	-	no account filed
June 2000	Hail	Hoven	-	no account filed
August 2000	Hail	Hoven	-	no account filed
August 2000	Hail	Hoven	-	no account filed
July 1997	Hail	Hoven	-	no account filed
August 1997	Hail	Hoven	-	no account filed
June 1997	Hail	Hoven	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Potter 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 80003731 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Potter County	All 7 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.