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Photograph of Old Finnish Lutheran Church
Photograph by JERRYE & ROY KLOTZ MD, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Old Finnish Lutheran Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.

From the record

“Old Finnish Lutheran Church is a historic church in Sinking Gardens on E. It was built in 1891 and was added to the National Register in 1985.”

Wikipedia article Old Finnish Lutheran Church, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 57 National Register listings published here for Lawrence County · listed in 1985 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • Address. Sinking Gardens, E. Main St., Lead, 57754
  • When was it listed? November 1985
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. Architecture of Finnish Settlement TR
  • City. Lead city
  • National Register reference number. 85003487 - 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

148 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 148 fires within 5 miles of Old Finnish Lutheran Church between 1992 and 2020, burning about 12,358 acres in total. 39 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
Natural39
Debris and open burning27
Recreation and ceremony24
Missing data/not specified/undetermined21
Equipment and vehicle use14
Power generation/transmission/distribution12
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Fireworks3
Smoking2
Firearms and explosives use1
Other causes1

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
9 September 2000Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionWAR EAGLE 2
8 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named
7 September 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMontana/Dakotas State OfficeSHEEPTAIL GULCH
7 September 1996Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionPARTY
6 September 1997Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionPARTY
5 September 1995Naturalunder an acreBlack Hills National ForestCHEYENNE
5 September 1995Natural2.0 acresBlack Hills National ForestANCHOR HILL
30 September 2013Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionSKATEBOARD

Every fire recorded in Lawrence County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 280 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 280 workings within 5 miles of Old Finnish Lutheran Church: 187 past producers, 41 producers, 29 unknowns, 11 occurrences. 47 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Gold, Silver, Tungsten. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Belle Eldridge Gold Mine Inc.Lead, Silver, ZincPast Producer1878, 1937
Belle Eldridge Gold MinesGold, Silver, Lead, Zinc, CopperPast Producer1890
Custer Peak PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Durango MineTungsten, Gold, SilverPast ProducerGold, Silver, Wolframite
Golden Reward MineGold, Silver, TelluriumPast ProducerReplacement
Hardin PropertiesGold, Iron, SulfurOccurrence
Hidden Fortune MineTungsten, Gold, SilverPast ProducerReplacement
Hoffman Iron Deposit MineIron, ManganesePast Producer1948
Homestake Filtration PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Iron PitSodiumProducer

Every working recorded in Lawrence County

Storms near this property

56 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lead, the town this property stands in, in 56 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 45 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 4 flash flood, 1 lightning. 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 2010HailLead$300,000Golf ball sized hail damaged automobiles and buildings in Lead.
July 2019Flash FloodLead$297,000Flash flooding occurred along Bear Butte Creek in Boulder Canyon near the Boulder Canyon Golf Club. A landslide occurred on Galena Road and culverts were blocked by water and debris. Ruby Flats Road and Englewood Road were flooded, as well as a portion of Two Bit Road and Yellow Creek Road.
July 2004Flash FloodLead$250,000no account filed
July 2000LightningLead$5,000Lightning struck a cable that supplies power to one of the mine shafts at the Homestake Mining Co. This caused problems with the shaft elevator, the compressor and milling operations. There were people at the bottom of the mine who were not able to exit through the shaft. Instead they took mining tractors through the mining tunnels to another shaft and exited there.
September 2013HailLead$2,000no account filed
June 2002Thunderstorm WindLead$1,000A shed was blown over and damaged.
May 1993HailLead$500no account filed
May 2025HailLead-Public reported quarter size hail.
July 2019FloodLead-Flooding continued across the area from heavy rainfall. Runoff from additional rainfall during the afternoon and evening of July 5 kept creek levels high into the morning hours on July 6.
June 2018HailLead-Hail to the size of baseballs caused significant property damage in Lead.
June 2015HailLead-Wind gusts to 50 mph also accompanied the storm.
August 2008HailLead-A few automobiles were damaged by large hailstones.
June 1999HailLead-15,000 flowering plants were destroyed in downtown Lead. A restaurant had one corner of its roof damaged.
July 1997HailLead-Golfball size hail was reported at Deer Mountain.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindLead-no account filed
June 2023HailLead-no account filed
April 2022HailLead-no account filed
May 2022HailLead-no account filed
June 2022HailLead-no account filed
July 2021Thunderstorm WindLead-no account filed
May 2020HailLead-no account filed
June 2020Thunderstorm WindLead-no account filed
June 2020Thunderstorm WindLead-no account filed
June 2019HailLead-no account filed
July 2019HailLead-no account filed
July 2019HailLead-no account filed
July 2019HailLead-no account filed
June 2018HailLead-no account filed
May 2016HailLead-no account filed
July 2013HailLead-no account filed
August 2013HailLead-no account filed
September 2013HailLead-no account filed
September 2013HailLead-no account filed
September 2013HailLead-no account filed
August 2013HailLead-no account filed
July 2012HailLead-no account filed
July 2012HailLead-no account filed
June 2011HailLead-no account filed
June 2010HailLead-no account filed
July 2008HailLead-no account filed
August 2008HailLead-no account filed
August 2005HailLead-no account filed
May 2003HailLead-no account filed
August 2002HailLead-no account filed
August 2001HailLead-no account filed
July 2001HailLead-no account filed
May 2000HailLead-no account filed
August 1999HailLead-no account filed
May 1999HailLead-no account filed
June 1999HailLead-no account filed
June 1999HailLead-no account filed
July 1997Flash FloodLead-no account filed
June 1996Flash FloodLead-no account filed
September 1996HailLead-no account filed
August 1996HailLead-no account filed
August 1996HailLead-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lawrence 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

6 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
Homestake Theater0.1 miles2021
St. Lawrence O'Toole Catholic Church1.2 miles2003
Deadwood Historic District2.5 miles1966
Mount Theodore Roosevelt Monument3.2 miles2005
Pearson Cabin5.5 miles2012
Tomahawk Lake Country Club5.8 miles2005

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 85003487 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Lawrence CountyAll 57 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.