Immanuel Lutheran Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.

From the record

“Immanuel Lutheran Church is a historic church in rural Perkins County, South Dakota. It is situated near the community of Zeona, South Dakota.”
Wikipedia article Immanuel Lutheran Church (Zeona, South Dakota), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 19 National Register listings published here for Perkins County · listed in 1987 · category: Building.

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 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. 15 mi. N of Mud Butte and US 212 on gravel CR, Zeona, 57649
When was it listed? April 1987
Category. building
Also known as. Harding and Perkins Counties MRA
Unorganized territory. South Perkins
National Register reference number. 87000555 - 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

6 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Immanuel Lutheran Church between 2002 and 2014, burning about 235 acres in total. 4 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	4
Equipment and vehicle use	1
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
29 August 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	40 acres	Prairie City Volunteer Fire Department	KOLB
12 July 2006	Natural	25 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
1 July 2012	Natural	15 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	TALBOT
1 July 2012	Natural	5.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	FLODEN
29 June 2006	Natural	150 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
27 October 2014	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	YACKLEY BROTHERS

Every fire recorded in Perkins County

Storms near this property

45 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Zeona, the town this property stands in, in 45 storm reports between 2001 and 2023: 24 hail, 17 thunderstorm wind, 2 flood, 2 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
June 2010	Flood	Zeona	$100,000	no account filed
June 2008	Hail	Zeona	$20,000	Large hail and strong wind gusts knocked out windows and destroyed siding on a house. The storm also killed two calves and injured other livestock. Grass in the area was flattened.
July 2003	Hail	Zeona	$2,000	no account filed
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Zeona	-	Wind gusts were estimated around 60 mph.
August 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Zeona	-	Wind gusts were estimated at 60 mph.
June 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Zeona	-	Wind gusts were estimated at 60 mph.
July 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Zeona	-	The storm also produced a lot of pea sized hail.
June 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Zeona	-	Wind gusts were estimated at 60 mph.
July 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Zeona	-	Wind gusts were estimated at 60 mph.
July 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Zeona	-	Wind gusts were estimated at 60 mph.
June 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Zeona	-	Wind gusts to 80 mph uprooted several six to eight inch diameter trees.
June 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Zeona	-	Wind gusts were estimated at 60 mph.
August 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Zeona	-	Wind gusts were estimated at 60 mph.
August 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Zeona	-	Wind gusts around 60 mph were reported.
July 2011	Flash Flood	Zeona	-	Heavy rain caused flash flooding along Deep Creek and other small streams in southeastern Perkins County.
May 2011	Flash Flood	Zeona	-	Flash flooding was reported along Deep Creek and the Moreau River in southeastern Perkins County.
March 2009	Flood	Zeona	-	Minor flooding occurred along the Moreau River. The river gauge northwest of Faith crested at 16.37 ft, which is 0.37 ft above flood stage.
May 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Zeona	-	None.
July 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Zeona	-	8 inch diameter cedar tree snapped in half.
August 2002	Hail	Zeona	-	Golfball sized hail destroyed an alfalfa field.
July 2023	Hail	Zeona	-	no account filed
July 2019	Hail	Zeona	-	no account filed
July 2019	Hail	Zeona	-	no account filed
June 2018	Hail	Zeona	-	no account filed
May 2016	Hail	Zeona	-	no account filed
June 2014	Hail	Zeona	-	no account filed
June 2009	Hail	Zeona	-	no account filed
June 2008	Hail	Zeona	-	no account filed
July 2008	Hail	Zeona	-	no account filed
July 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Zeona	-	no account filed
June 2008	Hail	Zeona	-	no account filed
April 2007	Hail	Zeona	-	no account filed
June 2007	Hail	Zeona	-	no account filed
May 2005	Hail	Zeona	-	no account filed
July 2005	Hail	Zeona	-	no account filed
July 2005	Hail	Zeona	-	no account filed
July 2005	Hail	Zeona	-	no account filed
June 2003	Hail	Zeona	-	no account filed
June 2003	Hail	Zeona	-	no account filed
July 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Zeona	-	no account filed
June 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Zeona	-	no account filed
August 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Zeona	-	no account filed
August 2002	Hail	Zeona	-	no account filed
August 2002	Hail	Zeona	-	no account filed
August 2001	Hail	Zeona	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Perkins 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	Property	Distance	Listed
	Spring Creek School	0.8 miles	1987
	Donald Beckon Ranch	4.3 miles	1987

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 87000555 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
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.
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.