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One of 39 National Register listings published here for Butte County · listed in 1984 · category: Building · built in 1914.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Vale School
Built in 1914. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 0ff SD 79, Vale, 57788
- When was it listed? August 1984
- Category. building
- Unorganized territory. East Butte
- When was it built? 1914
- National Register reference number. 84003250 - 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
68 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 68 fires within 5 miles of Vale School between 1998 and 2020, burning about 3,138 acres in total. 8 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 | 43 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 11 |
| Natural | 8 |
| Debris and open burning | 5 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | FOLLETTE |
| 2 September 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | GUY |
| 8 August 2005 | Natural | under an acre | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | not named |
| 6 August 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 20 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | BIG HORN RD. |
| 6 August 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | not named |
| 5 August 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 200 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | BEAR BUTTE FARMS 2 |
| 3 August 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Meade | NO FIRE |
| 3 August 2011 | Natural | under an acre | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | NONE |
Mines and quarries near this property
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Vale School: 1 occurrence, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Barber Pit No 1 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Deadwood Mill | Gold | Occurrence |
Storms near this property
31 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Vale, the town this property stands in, in 31 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 19 hail, 11 thunderstorm wind, 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2013 | Hail | Vale | $50,000 | no account filed |
| July 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Vale | $5,000 | Doors torn off a barn. Two horses were killed and another injured. |
| June 2025 | Hail | Vale | - | Spotter reported hail size, measured. |
| June 2025 | Hail | Vale | - | Spotter reported hail size, measured. |
| June 2025 | Hail | Vale | - | Public report. |
| June 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Vale | - | Public estimated wind gust report. |
| July 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Vale | - | Strong wind gusts blew down a fence. |
| June 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Vale | - | Wind gusts were estimated at 60 mph. |
| August 2011 | Hail | Vale | - | Wind gusts to 40 mph also accompanied the storm. |
| May 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Vale | - | Wind gusts were estimated at 60 mph. |
| May 2008 | Flood | Vale | - | Heavy rain caused flooding in Nisland, Vale, and Belle Fourche. Minor flooding was observed along the Belle Fourche River around Nisland and Vale, Willow Creek and Dry Creek near Newell, Stinking Water Creek, and Maloney Creek. |
| August 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Vale | - | The doors were blown off a shed. |
| May 2024 | Hail | Vale | - | no account filed |
| May 2024 | Hail | Vale | - | no account filed |
| May 2023 | Hail | Vale | - | no account filed |
| August 2022 | Hail | Vale | - | no account filed |
| June 2022 | Hail | Vale | - | no account filed |
| July 2017 | Hail | Vale | - | no account filed |
| June 2015 | Hail | Vale | - | no account filed |
| July 2015 | Hail | Vale | - | no account filed |
| May 2013 | Hail | Vale | - | no account filed |
| August 2011 | Hail | Vale | - | no account filed |
| August 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Vale | - | no account filed |
| July 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Vale | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Vale | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Vale | - | no account filed |
| July 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Vale | - | no account filed |
| August 2007 | Hail | Vale | - | no account filed |
| June 2003 | Hail | Vale | - | no account filed |
| July 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Vale | - | no account filed |
| July 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Vale | - | no account filed |
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 milesOther 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vale Bridge | 0.8 miles | 1999 | |
| William G. Kenaston House | 6.7 miles | 1984 | |
| Newell Depot Bridge | 7.3 miles | 1999 | |
| Belle Fourche Experiment Farm | 7.9 miles | 1976 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 84003250 in Record Group 79. |
| Butte County | All 39 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.