Snoma Finnish Cemetery

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.

From the record

“The Snoma Finnish Cemetery is a cemetery located about miles southeast of Fruitdale, in Butte County, South Dakota, United States. In 1885, a small Finnish community called Snoma was founded nearby, and the residents built the cemetery.”
Wikipedia article Snoma Finnish Cemetery, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 39 National Register listings published here for Butte County · listed in 1985 · category: Site.

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 203 objectss, 1 site as contributing to the listing.
Address. 3.5 mi. SE of Fruitdale, Fruitdale, 57717
When was it listed? November 1985
Category. site
Also known as. Architecture of Finnish Settlement TR
Unorganized territory. West Butte
National Register reference number. 85003492 - 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

9 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Snoma Finnish Cemetery between 2000 and 2020, burning about 1,199 acres in total. 6 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
Natural	6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
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
3 August 2006	Natural	200 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
3 August 2006	Natural	40 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
13 August 2000	Natural	under an acre	Edgemont Volunteer Fire Department	DEAD HORSE CANYON
12 August 2000	Natural	950 acres	Edgemont Volunteer Fire Department	CHILSON MT 2
11 August 2000	Natural	under an acre	Edgemont Volunteer Fire Department	FLINT HILL 2
1 July 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	8.4 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	DAKOTA
28 June 2020	Natural	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	REPEAT 2
1 March 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	NOT A FIRE

Every fire recorded in Butte County

Storms near this property

9 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fruitdale, the town this property stands in, in 9 storm reports between 2004 and 2023: 6 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 heavy rain, 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
May 2020	Flash Flood	Fruitdale	$5,000	Runoff from heavy rain flooded Crooked Oaks Road just south of Snoma Road. Gravel was washed off the road and the road was impassable for a couple of hours.
June 2012	Heavy Rain	Fruitdale	-	Runoff from heavy rain ponded in yards and fields.
July 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Fruitdale	-	Wind gusts were estimated at 60 mph.
May 2023	Hail	Fruitdale	-	no account filed
June 2023	Hail	Fruitdale	-	no account filed
May 2018	Hail	Fruitdale	-	no account filed
June 2012	Hail	Fruitdale	-	no account filed
July 2011	Hail	Fruitdale	-	no account filed
August 2004	Hail	Fruitdale	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Butte 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Minnesela Bridge	6.7 miles	1993
Butte County Courthouse amd Historic Jail Building	6.9 miles	1998
Ditchrider House	7.0 miles	2002
Belle Fourche Dam	7.0 miles	1977

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 85003492 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
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.
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.