Photograph of Beresford station — Photograph by Ammodramus, CC0 1.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Chicago and Northwestern Railroad Depot

Built in 1924. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.

From the record

“The Chicago and North Western Railway Depot was built by the Chicago and North Western Railway (C&NW) in 1924. It is located at the east end of the business district in Beresford, South Dakota.”
Wikipedia article Beresford station, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 16 National Register listings published here for Union County · listed in 1985 · category: Building · built in 1924.

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. 1 Depot Sq., Beresford, 57004
When was it listed? January 1985
Category. building
City. Beresford city
When was it built? 1924
National Register reference number. 85000262 - 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

13 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Chicago and Northwestern Railroad Depot between 1998 and 2018, burning about 120 acres in total. 1 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	10
Debris and open burning	1
Natural	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
15 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	9152011
10 August 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	NA
28 June 1998	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Rapid City Fire Department	98-1982
7 May 2018	Natural	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	CHRISTENSON
12 May 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	WESTBERG
8 April 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	30634
22 April 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	GLEN
29 March 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	TTT

Every fire recorded in Union County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Chicago and Northwestern Railroad Depot: 2 producers. 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
	Christenson Sand & Gravel	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
	Higman Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Union County

Storms near this property

5 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Beresford, the town this property stands in, in 5 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 flash flood. The reports record 2 injuries. 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 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Beresford	2 hurt, $50,000	Thunderstorm Winds overturned a trailer and damaged trees.
May 1993	Hail	Beresford	$5,000,000	A hailstorm pelted the Beresford area with hail up to three inches in diameter. Around 300 cars and at least 200 roofs sustained hail damage.
August 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Beresford	$5,000	Thunderstorm winds blew down a construction crane and a few trees.
June 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Beresford	$5,000	A mobile home was overturned with several injuries.
July 2025	Flash Flood	Beresford	-	Multiple roadways and intersections were inundated by water deep enough to impede travel.

Every storm recorded in Union 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

3 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
J. W. Reedy House	0.3 miles	1984
Governor William J. Bulow House	0.3 miles	1986
John August Larson Home	0.6 miles	1985

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 85000262 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Union County	All 16 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.