BlockFrom the record
One of 39 National Register listings published here for Butte County · listed in 1986 · category: District.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Butte-Lawrence County Fairgrounds
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.
The listing
- Listed as. Butte--Lawrence County Fairgrounds - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
- Address. SW of Nisland, Nisland, 57278
- When was it listed? April 1986
- Category. district
- Also known as. Rural Butte and Meade Counties MRA
- National Register reference number. 86000934 - 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
41 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Nisland, the town this property stands in, in 41 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 22 thunderstorm wind, 16 hail, 1 funnel cloud, 1 tornado. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Nisland | $50,000 | The combination of large hail and wind gusts to 70 mph damaged crops and property. |
| June 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Nisland | $25,000 | The combination of very large hail and strong wind gusts caused significant property damage. |
| June 2015 | Hail | Nisland | $25,000 | no account filed |
| June 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Nisland | $10,000 | Several windows of a house were broken and roof damage occurred from wind-driven hail. |
| July 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Nisland | $5,000 | Thunderstorm Winds ripped the roof off of a shed at a feed lot. |
| June 2012 | Hail | Nisland | $5,000 | no account filed |
| June 2025 | Hail | Nisland | - | Public estimated report. |
| June 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Nisland | - | Public estimated wind gust report. |
| June 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Nisland | - | SD Mesonet recorded gust. |
| June 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Nisland | - | SD mesonet recorded gust. |
| July 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Nisland | - | SD Mesonet measured wind gust. |
| July 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Nisland | - | SD Mesonet measured wind gust. |
| July 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Nisland | - | SD Mesonet measured wind gust. |
| August 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Nisland | - | SD Mesonet recorded wind gust. |
| June 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Nisland | - | Wind gusts were estimated at 60 mph. |
| August 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Nisland | - | Wind gusts were estimated at 60 mph. |
| June 2012 | Heavy Rain | Nisland | - | Heavy rain filled ditches and swelled a small creek to four feet wide for a brief time. |
| July 2011 | Tornado (EF0) | Nisland | - | The tornado did not cause any damage. Size and location were based on pictures and reports. |
| August 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Nisland | - | Wind gusts were estimated at 60 mph. |
| August 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Nisland | - | 3 inch diameter tree limbs were broken. |
| July 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Nisland | - | no account filed |
| May 2023 | Hail | Nisland | - | no account filed |
| June 2022 | Hail | Nisland | - | no account filed |
| June 2022 | Hail | Nisland | - | no account filed |
| June 2022 | Hail | Nisland | - | no account filed |
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Nisland | - | no account filed |
| June 2020 | Hail | Nisland | - | no account filed |
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Nisland | - | no account filed |
| August 2018 | Hail | Nisland | - | no account filed |
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Nisland | - | no account filed |
| June 2015 | Hail | Nisland | - | no account filed |
| June 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Nisland | - | no account filed |
| June 2014 | Hail | Nisland | - | no account filed |
| July 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Nisland | - | no account filed |
| August 2009 | Hail | Nisland | - | no account filed |
| August 2008 | Hail | Nisland | - | no account filed |
| August 2007 | Hail | Nisland | - | no account filed |
| June 2000 | Hail | Nisland | - | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Funnel Cloud | Nisland | - | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Hail | Nisland | - | no account filed |
| July 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Nisland | - | no account filed |
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 milesOther 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 | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vale Cut Off Belle Fourche River Bridge | 3.7 miles | 1986 | |
| Langdon School | 4.5 miles | 1986 | |
| Carl Friedrick Gartner Homestead | 4.8 miles | 1986 | |
| Stonelake Bridge | 4.8 miles | 1986 | |
| Nicholas Augustus Viken Homestead | 5.5 miles | 1986 | |
 | Fruitdale School | 6.1 miles | 1986 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 86000934 in Record Group 79. |
| 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.