Palestine Evangelical Lutheran Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

From the record

“Palestine Evangelical Lutheran Church is a church in Marshall County, South Dakota. The church is situated northeast of Veblen, South Dakota.”
Wikipedia article Palestine Evangelical Lutheran Church, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 6 National Register listings published here for Marshall County · listed in 1982 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · 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. NE of Veblen, Veblen, 58053
When was it listed? March 1982
Category. building
Township. Veblen township
National Register reference number. 82003931 - 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.

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 Palestine Evangelical Lutheran Church: 1 producer. All of them still produce. 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
	Seebeck Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Marshall County

Storms near this property

17 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Veblen, the town this property stands in, in 17 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 7 thunderstorm wind, 7 hail, 2 flash flood, 1 lightning. 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 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Veblen	-	Emergency management reported damage to a dairy barn roof due to thunderstorm winds.
August 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Veblen	-	Sixty mph winds brought several tree branches down.
June 2013	Flash Flood	Veblen	-	Heavy rain of three to four inches brought many flooded roads in and around Veblen.
May 2004	Lightning	Veblen	-	Lightning struck a house in Veblen and caused some damage. Glass from a broken window hit a man and some debris from the ceiling hit a woman. They were taken to the hospital and treated for minor injuries.
June 2003	Flash Flood	Veblen	-	Heavy rain caused flash flooding near Veblen with water flowing over County road 7 in several locations. A culvert was washed out along with part of the road at one location.
June 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Veblen	-	At a farm east of Veblen, a big machine shed was lifted up and then sat down in a tree belt 60 feet away. A large tree was also uprooted by the high winds.
June 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Veblen	-	Seventy mph winds brought some tree branches down in Veblen.
July 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Veblen	-	no account filed
June 2006	Hail	Veblen	-	no account filed
September 2005	Hail	Veblen	-	no account filed
September 2005	Hail	Veblen	-	no account filed
June 2004	Hail	Veblen	-	no account filed
August 2004	Hail	Veblen	-	no account filed
July 2000	Hail	Veblen	-	no account filed
August 1999	Hail	Veblen	-	no account filed
May 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Veblen	-	no account filed
May 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Veblen	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Marshall 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 82003931 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Marshall County	All 6 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.
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.