United Church of Christ

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

From the record

“The United Church of Christ in Mission Hill, South Dakota is a church which was built in 1913. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.”
Wikipedia article United Church of Christ (Mission Hill, South Dakota), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 78 National Register listings published here for Yankton 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. In Mission Hill, Mission Hill, 57046
When was it listed? April 1980
Category. building
Also known as. Northern and Central Townships of Yankton MRA
Town. Mission Hill town
National Register reference number. 80003746 - 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

43 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 43 fires within 5 miles of United Church of Christ between 1999 and 2019, burning about 187 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/undetermined	22
Debris and open burning	15
Smoking	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Fireworks	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
8 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	MISSING TIRE
5 August 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	MOOSE FIRE
29 August 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	ROUND LAKE FIRE
1 August 2012	Smoking	1.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	STATE 50 FIRE
26 July 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	STATE 50 3
26 July 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	STATE 50 2
24 July 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	STATE 50 1
15 July 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	HWY 50 GRASS FIRE IN DITCH

Every fire recorded in Yankton 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 United Church of Christ: 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
	Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Yankton County

Storms near this property

20 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mission Hill, the town this property stands in, in 20 storm reports between 1996 and 2023: 11 hail, 8 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
June 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Mission Hill	$100,000	Thunderstorm winds destroyed several large grain bins, blew down power lines and poles, and caused widespread tree damage, including several large trees blown down.
August 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Mission Hill	$70,000	Thunderstorm winds damaged three mobile homes, and also damaged trees and power lines.
July 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Mission Hill	$30,000	While dime size hail and winds to around 60 mph occurred in Mission Hill, it was part of a 3 mile wide swath of more significant wind-driven hail from around 4 miles north northwest of Mission Hill to a mile south of Mission Hill. Corn and soybean fields were pulverized to stubble, with most trees stripped of leaves. At a farm 3 miles northwest of Mission Hill, a grain bin, machine shed and trailer home each lost part of the roof. Along the path, three center irrigation pivots were overturned. Property damage costs are rough estimates. Crop damage is an estimate from insured losses. Information provided by the United States Department of Agriculture.
May 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Mission Hill	$5,000	Thunderstorm winds damaged a garage.
June 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Mission Hill	-	Thunderstorm wind gusts downed a large tree limb.
May 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Mission Hill	-	Several tree limbs were snapped by thunderstorm winds.
May 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Mission Hill	-	A wall was blown out of a farm outbuilding.
April 2017	Hail	Mission Hill	-	Hail was brief in nature and occurred with very heavy rain.
September 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Mission Hill	-	Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including several branches blown down.
September 2010	Hail	Mission Hill	-	Large hails covered the ground.
June 2009	Tornado (EF0)	Mission Hill	-	A brief tornado caused no reported damage.
April 2022	Hail	Mission Hill	-	no account filed
September 2015	Hail	Mission Hill	-	no account filed
August 2011	Hail	Mission Hill	-	no account filed
July 2009	Hail	Mission Hill	-	no account filed
May 2008	Hail	Mission Hill	-	no account filed
June 2002	Hail	Mission Hill	-	no account filed
June 2000	Hail	Mission Hill	-	no account filed
June 2000	Hail	Mission Hill	-	no account filed
June 1996	Hail	Mission Hill	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Yankton 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
Larson-Simonson House	0.1 miles	1980
Van Osdel House	0.3 miles	1980
Vangen Church	0.8 miles	1980
New Hope Farm Swine Barn	2.4 miles	2004
Mathias Peterson Homestead	2.5 miles	1980
Lewis Olson Log House	3.0 miles	1980

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 80003746 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Yankton County	All 78 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.