BlockFrom the record
One of 19 National Register listings published here for Perkins County · listed in 1987 · category: Building · built in 1910.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Sorum Hotel
Built in 1910. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
- Address. Main St., Sorum, 57651
- When was it listed? April 1987
- Category. building
- Also known as. Harding and Perkins Counties MRA
- Unorganized territory. Jones
- When was it built? 1910
- National Register reference number. 87000552 - 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
24 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 24 fires within 5 miles of Sorum Hotel between 1998 and 2020, burning about 382 acres in total. 17 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 17 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 5 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 September 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | not named |
| 10 September 2009 | Natural | 4.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | not named |
| 7 August 2007 | Natural | under an acre | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | not named |
| 27 August 1998 | Natural | 3.0 acres | Eureka Volunteer Fire Department | LARRY SCHNABEL |
| 23 August 1999 | Equipment and vehicle use | 20 acres | Sorum/Reva Volunteer Fire Department | BLAIR |
| 21 August 2017 | Natural | under an acre | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | LYNN'S HAY FIRE |
| 11 August 2006 | Natural | 121 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | not named |
| 10 August 2005 | Natural | 2.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | not named |
Mines and quarries near this property
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Sorum Hotel: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this property
16 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sorum, the town this property stands in, in 16 storm reports between 2005 and 2021: 6 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 3 flash flood, 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sorum | $24,000 | Sixteen power poles were blown over. |
| August 2013 | Flash Flood | Sorum | $20,000 | Heavy rain caused flash flooding along Thunder Butte Creek, Hart Creek, and their tributaries. Rural roads were flooded when culverts were quickly overwhelmed from the excessive runoff. |
| July 2021 | Hail | Sorum | - | Wind gusts to 40 mph accompanied the storm. |
| June 2020 | Hail | Sorum | - | The ground was covered with hail. |
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sorum | - | Wind gusts were estimated at 60 mph. |
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sorum | - | Wind gusts were estimated at 60 mph. |
| June 2014 | Flash Flood | Sorum | - | Runoff from heavy rain flooded Zeona Road and Prairie City Road. |
| August 2013 | Flood | Sorum | - | Excessive rainfall and continued runoff caused flooding along several creeks and streams, including Thunder Butte Creek, Hart Creek, and their tributaries. |
| July 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sorum | - | A spotter estimated wind gusts reached 65 mph. |
| June 2018 | Funnel Cloud | Sorum | - | no account filed |
| August 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sorum | - | no account filed |
| July 2016 | Hail | Sorum | - | no account filed |
| June 2014 | Hail | Sorum | - | no account filed |
| April 2009 | Flash Flood | Sorum | - | no account filed |
| May 2007 | Hail | Sorum | - | no account filed |
| July 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sorum | - | 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.
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 87000552 in Record Group 79. |
| Perkins County | All 19 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.
- Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
- 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.