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Photograph of Trinity Episcopal Church
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Trinity Episcopal Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

From the record

“The Trinity Episcopal Church in Groton, South Dakota is a historic church at 3rd Avenue East and 3rd Street North. It was built in 1884 and was added to the National Register in 1983.”

Wikipedia article Trinity Episcopal Church (Groton, South Dakota), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 42 National Register listings published here for Brown County · listed in 1983 · 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. 3rd Ave. E. and 3rd St. N., Groton, 57445
  • When was it listed? January 1983
  • Category. building
  • City. Groton city
  • National Register reference number. 83003003 - 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

19 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Trinity Episcopal Church between 2000 and 2017, burning about 177 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/undetermined12
Debris and open burning4
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Equipment and vehicle use1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
27 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined45 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionBELDEN
14 September 2000Debris and open burning20 acresGroton Volunteer Fire DepartmentGROTON CITY
18 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionOVERPASS
30 June 2000Railroad operations and maintenance2.0 acresGroton Volunteer Fire DepartmentBURLINGTON NORTHERN RR
7 May 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresDay CountyRAAP
4 May 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionFLIEHS FIRE
3 May 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined50 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionZOELLNER FIRE
18 May 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionUNKNOW

Every fire recorded in Brown County

Storms near this property

54 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Groton, the town this property stands in, in 54 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 29 thunderstorm wind, 19 hail, 4 tornado, 1 wildfire. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 1993HailGroton$50A severe thunderstorm hit Groton with hail, damaging lightning, and 3.43 inches of rain which flooded some basements. At a high school, lightning split a 30-foot chimney which fell through a large skylight and sections of the roof. This resulted in extensive water damage to ceiling tiles in classrooms, due to the heavy rains.
August 2025Thunderstorm WindGroton-A trained spotter reported that hay bales had rolled across highway 12 due to thunderstorm winds.
August 2025Thunderstorm WindGroton-Public reported tree damage by estimated thunderstorm winds around 60 mph.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindGroton-Estimated eighty mph winds caused several power poles to lean over or break off south of Groton. There were also several downed trees.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindGroton-Estimated seventy-five mph winds downed several trees in Groton along with damaging an apartment building.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindGroton-Seventy mph winds were estimated.
June 2017Tornado (EF0)Groton-A tornado touched down briefly south of Groton. No damage occurred.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindGroton-The sheet metal was blown off a roof at a business south of Groton by estimated seventy mph winds.
August 2016Thunderstorm WindGroton-Sixty-five mph winds downed many tree branches along with some trees in Groton.
August 2016Thunderstorm WindGroton-Building removed from foundation and moved to the east.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindGroton-Sixty mph winds tossed around three square water tanks with one tank tossed a hundred feet. A small piece of sheet metal was also blown off the roof of a building along with some minor tree damage.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindGroton-Sixty mph winds downed several tree branches along a tree row with a few branches thrown east across the road into a corn field. The corn stocks were leaning 45 degrees to the east.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindGroton-A large tree was broke off at the trunk along with another tree partially uprooted. Many other large branches were downed in the shelter belt with minor damage to the edge of the cornfield.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindGroton-Seventy mph winds downed a large pine tree with many other tree branches downed.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindGroton-Sixty mph winds were estimated in Groton.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindGroton-An anchored single wide manufactured home was blown completely off of its foundation and destroyed. Some of the debris was blown 60 feet into another home causing damage to it.
May 2007Thunderstorm WindGroton-Thunderstorm winds over 70 mph downed several evergreen trees at the cemetary and also downed a flag pole.
June 2005Tornado (F0)Groton-A tornado touched down west of Groton and did some damage to three mobile homes.
June 2003Thunderstorm WindGroton-Sixty mph winds knocked down some large tree branches.
July 2002Thunderstorm WindGroton-Sixty mph winds blew off some large advertising signs at the ball field.
July 2002Thunderstorm WindGroton-Winds to 80 mph brought down many trees in the Groton cemetery. Some power poles along with many tree branches were also downed in Groton.
June 2000Thunderstorm WindGroton-Seventy mph winds blew the roof off of an outbuilding and caved one wall in. After the roof hit the ground, it was torn to pieces. The pieces were spread out across a field in a narrow straight path. A piece of the roof also injured a cow.
July 2000Thunderstorm WindGroton-Winds to 70 mph destroyed a cattle shelter and broke a window out of the house.
July 2000Thunderstorm WindGroton-High winds buckled the walls of a mobile home south of Groton.
June 1999Thunderstorm WindGroton-Winds gusting to 74 mph knocked down several trees and many tree branches throughout Groton. One tree took out a major transmission line and ripped the electrical service line off of a house. Power was out for parts of Groton for several hours. The high winds shattered the windows at a store on Main street and tore a standing board on a sign loose which damaged five new vehicles at a dealership in Groton. The high winds also destroyed a small service building and the surrounding fence at a main juncture of natural gas pipelines at Groton.
June 1998Tornado (F0)Groton-A tornado touched down briefly southeast of Groton with no damage reported. Path length and width were estimated.
July 2024HailGroton-no account filed
April 2023Thunderstorm WindGroton-no account filed
September 2023HailGroton-no account filed
August 2022HailGroton-no account filed
May 2022Thunderstorm WindGroton-no account filed
July 2016Funnel CloudGroton-no account filed
July 2013HailGroton-no account filed
July 2013HailGroton-no account filed
July 2013HailGroton-no account filed
July 2010HailGroton-no account filed
May 2010HailGroton-no account filed
April 2009HailGroton-no account filed
June 2009HailGroton-no account filed
June 2009HailGroton-no account filed
June 2009HailGroton-no account filed
June 2009HailGroton-no account filed
June 2005HailGroton-no account filed
June 2005HailGroton-no account filed
June 2005Thunderstorm WindGroton-no account filed
July 2003Thunderstorm WindGroton-no account filed
July 2003Thunderstorm WindGroton-no account filed
August 2002HailGroton-no account filed
October 1999WildfireGroton-no account filed
July 1999Thunderstorm WindGroton-no account filed
June 1998HailGroton-no account filed
August 1997Thunderstorm WindGroton-no account filed
July 1996HailGroton-no account filed
July 1996Tornado (F0)Groton-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Brown 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

4 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 PropertyDistance Listed
First Presbyterian Church of Grotonunder 500 feet2019
McKenzie-Cassels House0.2 miles1986
Anna Herron Farm6.4 miles1995
South Dakota Dept. of Transportation Bridge No. 07-304-4147.6 miles2000

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 83003003 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Brown CountyAll 42 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.