North Canton School-District No. 12

Built in 1889. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.

From the record

One of 7 National Register listings published here for Potter County · listed in 1986 · category: Building · built in 1889.

Sources: 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.
Listed as. North Canton School--District No. 12 - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. Off SD 47, Seneca, 57473
When was it listed? May 1986
Category. building
Unorganized territory. East Potter
When was it built? 1889
National Register reference number. 86001025 - 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

8 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of North Canton School-District No. 12 between 2001 and 2018, burning about 134 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	7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
7 September 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
5 September 2001	Equipment and vehicle use	10 acres	Lebanon Volunteer Fire Department	BREEN 2
3 September 2001	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	Lebanon Volunteer Fire Department	BREEN
22 August 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	8.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	OPEN BALES
22 August 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	38 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	JOHANNSEN FIRE
25 July 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	15 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	METAL WORKS
25 July 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	25 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	ROGER SIMON FIRE
15 July 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	30 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named

Every fire recorded in Potter 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 86001025 in Record Group 79.
Potter County	All 7 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.