Photograph of Savo Hall — Photograph by Ammodramus, CC0 1.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Savo Hall-Finnish National Society Hall

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.

From the record

“Savo Hall, also known as the Finnish National Society Hall, is a historic meeting hall in Savo Township, Brown County, South Dakota. The hall was constructed in 1899 to serve as a meeting place for Savo's Finnish-American community.”
Wikipedia article Savo Hall, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 42 National Register listings published here for Brown 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

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. NE of Savo, Savo Township, 57441
When was it listed? November 1985
Category. building
Also known as. Architecture of Finnish Settlement TR
Township. Savo township
National Register reference number. 85003494 - 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

7 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Savo Hall-Finnish National Society Hall between 2006 and 2020, burning about 33 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
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3

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
14 June 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	SUMPTION, JAMES
21 May 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	J. SUMPTION
9 April 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	4.0 acres	Sand Lake National Wildlife Refuge	HEIS WPA WILDFIRE
27 April 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	281 FIRE
2 April 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	GERANEN FIRE
28 November 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	SUMPTION
8 October 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	HELLAND

Every fire recorded in Brown 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
Paul and Fredriika Geranen Farm	2.1 miles	1985
Martilla-Pettingel and Gorder General Merchandise Store	5.5 miles	1985
Aurland United Norwegian Lutheran Church	7.5 miles	1982

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 85003494 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Brown County	All 42 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.