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Holy Rosary Church

Built in 1898 (Gothic Revival). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.

From the record

“The Holy Rosary Church in Kranzburg, South Dakota is a historic Roman Catholic church building on Minnesota Avenue. It was built in 1898 and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.”

Wikipedia article Holy Rosary Church (Kranzburg, South Dakota), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 43 National Register listings published here for Codington County · listed in 1986 · category: Building · built in 1898, Gothic Revival.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. Minnesota Ave., Kranzburg, 57245
  • When was it listed? June 1986
  • Category. building
  • Township. Kranzburg township
  • When was it built? 1898
  • Architectural style. Gothic Revival
  • National Register reference number. 86001227 - 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

18 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Holy Rosary Church between 1999 and 2020, burning about 163 acres in total. 1 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
Debris and open burning7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Other causes1
Smoking1
Natural1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
18 September 2000Natural5.0 acresSouth Shore Volunteer Fire DepartmentGRIEPP
11 September 2000Debris and open burning2.0 acresWatertown Volunteer Fire DepartmentLAMBERT
1 August 2003Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named
5 July 2006Smokingunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named
9 June 2000Other causes2.0 acresSouth Shore Volunteer Fire DepartmentNELSON
4 May 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionBOSWELL
4 May 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named
29 May 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionLONGVIEW

Every fire recorded in Codington County

Storms near this property

17 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kranzburg, the town this property stands in, in 17 storm reports between 2002 and 2022: 15 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2022Thunderstorm WindKranzburg-A barn collapsed about a half mile to the south-southwest of Kranzburg. There was only a very limited amount of debris pushed northeast, largely within 20 to 30 feet of the building. There was tree that was knocked down about 80 yards to the north of the barn. No damage was noted to three other farm buildings there were to the south and north of the barn.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindKranzburg-Sixty mph winds were estimated.
August 2018HailKranzburg-no account filed
July 2016HailKranzburg-no account filed
June 2012HailKranzburg-no account filed
June 2012HailKranzburg-no account filed
July 2009HailKranzburg-no account filed
July 2007HailKranzburg-no account filed
July 2007HailKranzburg-no account filed
July 2007HailKranzburg-no account filed
July 2007HailKranzburg-no account filed
July 2007HailKranzburg-no account filed
July 2007HailKranzburg-no account filed
May 2006HailKranzburg-no account filed
May 2006HailKranzburg-no account filed
May 2005HailKranzburg-no account filed
August 2002HailKranzburg-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Codington 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

2 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Kranzburg School District No. 5under 500 feet1991
Nicholas T. Ries Farmstead2.2 miles1988

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 86001227 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Codington CountyAll 43 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.