Fruitdale School

Built in 1920. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.

From the record

“The Fruitdale School, on High St. at the northwest edge of Fruitdale, South Dakota, was built in 1926. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.”
Wikipedia article Fruitdale School, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 39 National Register listings published here for Butte County · listed in 1986 · category: Building · built in 1920.

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. High St., Fruitdale, 57278
When was it listed? April 1986
Category. building
Also known as. Rural Butte and Meade Counties MRA
When was it built? 1920
National Register reference number. 86000926 - 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.

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

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
William Johnson House	0.1 miles	1986
Fruitdale Store	0.2 miles	1986
Butte-Lawrence County Fairgrounds	6.1 miles	1986

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 86000926 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.
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.