Old Spink Colony

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

From the record

“The Old Spink Colony is a Hutterite colony on the James River near Frankfort, South Dakota. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.”
Wikipedia article Old Spink Colony, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 22 National Register listings published here for Spink 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

Address. On James River, Frankfort, 57440
When was it listed? June 1982
Category. building
Also known as. Historic Hutterite Colonies TR
Township. Lincoln township
National Register reference number. 82003941 - 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.

Storms near this property

20 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Frankfort, the town this property stands in, in 20 storm reports between 2002 and 2025: 14 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. 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
September 2013	Flash Flood	Frankfort	$5,000	A section of a gravel driveway was washed out requiring some repairs.
July 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Frankfort	-	A trained spotter reported numerous tree branches downed by thunderstorm winds.
August 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Frankfort	-	Seventy mph winds destroyed three grain bins along with downing numerous trees in a shelter belt. Significant crop damage also occurred from the combination of winds and dime size hail.
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Frankfort	-	Several large tree branches were broken off by the high winds.
June 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Frankfort	-	no account filed
June 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Frankfort	-	no account filed
September 2016	Hail	Frankfort	-	no account filed
June 2015	Hail	Frankfort	-	no account filed
July 2015	Hail	Frankfort	-	no account filed
July 2015	Hail	Frankfort	-	no account filed
June 2013	Hail	Frankfort	-	no account filed
September 2013	Hail	Frankfort	-	no account filed
September 2013	Hail	Frankfort	-	no account filed
July 2012	Hail	Frankfort	-	no account filed
May 2012	Hail	Frankfort	-	no account filed
September 2007	Hail	Frankfort	-	no account filed
September 2005	Hail	Frankfort	-	no account filed
July 2003	Hail	Frankfort	-	no account filed
July 2003	Hail	Frankfort	-	no account filed
July 2002	Hail	Frankfort	-	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

1 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
	South Dakota Dept. of Transportation Bridge No. 58-218-360	2.3 miles	1993

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 82003941 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.
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.