Brown Earth Presbyterian Church

Built in 1877. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.

From the record

“Brown Earth Presbyterian Church is a church building in Grant County, South Dakota. It was built in 1877, and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.”
Wikipedia article Brown Earth Presbyterian Church, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 15 National Register listings published here for Grant County · listed in 1984 · category: Building · built in 1877.

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 Stockholm, Stockholm, 57264
When was it listed? August 1984
Category. building
Township. Stockholm township
When was it built? 1877
National Register reference number. 84003288 - 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

17 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Brown Earth Presbyterian Church between 2002 and 2020, burning about 114 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	15
Debris and open burning	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
29 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	RABINE
13 July 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Clear Lake Volunteer Fire Department	NONE GIVEN
6 May 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	FALK
9 April 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	STOCKHOLM
9 April 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	BNSF 1
9 April 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	BNSF 2
29 April 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	BALLPARK
23 April 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	BNSF 3

Every fire recorded in Grant County

Storms near this property

10 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Stockholm, the town this property stands in, in 10 storm reports between 2001 and 2012: 6 hail, 3 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
June 2012	Flash Flood	Stockholm	-	Three to four inches of rain caused a washout in a road near Stockholm.
August 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Stockholm	-	Sixty mph winds downed several large tree branches.
June 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Stockholm	-	Eighty mph winds leveled a wooden dairy barn, silo, a feed shed, and a steel grain bin, along with downing several trees.
June 2007	Hail	Stockholm	-	no account filed
April 2007	Hail	Stockholm	-	no account filed
April 2007	Hail	Stockholm	-	no account filed
June 2006	Hail	Stockholm	-	no account filed
August 2004	Hail	Stockholm	-	no account filed
June 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Stockholm	-	no account filed
June 2001	Hail	Stockholm	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Grant 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

2 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
	Swedish Lutheran Church of Strandburg	5.7 miles	1978
	George and Mary Koch Farm	8.0 miles	2008

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 84003288 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Grant County	All 15 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.