Immanuel Lutheran Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.

From the record

“The Immanuel Lutheran Church is a historic church in rural Jones County, South Dakota. It is located about 14 miles (23 km) north of Murdo, at a site that was settled in the early 20th century by an immigrant Norwegian population.”
Wikipedia article Immanuel Lutheran Church (Murdo, South Dakota), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 5 National Register listings published here for Jones County · listed in 1988 · 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 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 14 mi. N of I-90, Murdo, 57559
When was it listed? February 1988
Category. building
Unorganized territory. North Jones
National Register reference number. 88000022 - 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 Immanuel Lutheran Church between 1999 and 2004, burning about 4,717 acres in total. 11 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	11
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Debris and open burning	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	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 2001	Equipment and vehicle use	1,950 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	VAN METERE
4 September 2002	Natural	102 acres	Murdo Volunteer Fire Department	TURNER #4
4 August 2000	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Murdo Volunteer Fire Department	I90 COMPLEX
30 August 2000	Natural	8.0 acres	Murdo Volunteer Fire Department	TURNER/KNOX
27 August 2003	Natural	960 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	OLSON 2
25 August 2003	Natural	4.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
25 August 2003	Natural	40 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	OLSON
7 July 2000	Natural	8.0 acres	Murdo Volunteer Fire Department	TURNER/KNOX #1

Every fire recorded in Jones County

Storms near this property

60 of 61 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Murdo, the town this property stands in, in 61 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 31 hail, 28 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 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
May 1994	Hail	Murdo	$5,000	no account filed
July 2025	Hail	Murdo	-	Nickel-sized hail was reported in Murdo.
April 2024	Flood	Murdo	-	The Jones County Emergency Manager reported flooding in Murdo. Additional flooding was noted outside of town on 273rd ave, with water over the road and a partially washed out culvert.
June 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Murdo	-	A grain bin was leveled by the winds.
June 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Murdo	-	Winds were estimated at 60 mph.
July 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Murdo	-	A semi was blown over by estimated seventy mph winds.
July 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Murdo	-	A cornfield was completely destroyed by estimated seventy-five mph winds.
August 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Murdo	-	Estimated sixty mph winds downed a large cedar tree in Murdo.
June 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Murdo	-	A semi was blown off Interstate-90 and into the median.
June 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Murdo	-	Seventy mph winds were estimated.
June 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Murdo	-	Ninety mph winds flipped over a semi-trailer and small cargo trailer. The winds also downed power lines and damaged numerous billboards and road signs.
June 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Murdo	-	Estimated eighty mph winds resulted in a couple flipped trailers.
June 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Murdo	-	Eighty mph winds broke several trees off at the base with lots of tree branches downed.
June 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Murdo	-	Seventy mph winds downed several power lines in Murdo.
July 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Murdo	-	Seventy mph winds flattened a two stall garage, bent a flag pole over, and downed many large tree limbs.
June 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Murdo	-	Seventy mph winds damaged some street lights in Murdo.
May 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Murdo	-	High winds of over 60 mph took the roof off and a wall down on a cattle barn.
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Murdo	-	High winds destroyed several grain bins and tipped over an auger.
May 2001	Hail	Murdo	-	Hail up to the size of quarters completely covered the ground along with breaking some windows.
July 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Murdo	-	High winds blew over some power poles and also blew the roof off a grain bin.
June 1999	Tornado (F0)	Murdo	-	A tornado touched down west of Murdo and went through an uninhabited farmstead tipping over a shed, moving some machinery around, tearing up a few trees, and scattering some hay bales around. On another farm, the tornado tore apart an open fronted shed, tipped over a wooden granary into a travel trailer, turned a combine ninety degrees, tore up some calving sheds, and snapped the tops of many cottonwood trees. The snapped tree tops were laying in all different angles. Some power poles and lines were brought down, leaving many in the dark for several hours. The tornado moved northeast and flipped over a semi trailer parked at a rest area on Interstate-90 and continued north damaging some more power lines and small structures before dissipating. Path length and width were estimated.
August 2024	Hail	Murdo	-	no account filed
July 2020	Hail	Murdo	-	no account filed
July 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Murdo	-	no account filed
July 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Murdo	-	no account filed
June 2020	Hail	Murdo	-	no account filed
June 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Murdo	-	no account filed
August 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Murdo	-	no account filed
June 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Murdo	-	no account filed
June 2013	Hail	Murdo	-	no account filed
June 2013	Hail	Murdo	-	no account filed
June 2013	Hail	Murdo	-	no account filed
June 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Murdo	-	no account filed
July 2013	Hail	Murdo	-	no account filed
May 2012	Hail	Murdo	-	no account filed
July 2011	Hail	Murdo	-	no account filed
October 2011	Hail	Murdo	-	no account filed
August 2011	Hail	Murdo	-	no account filed
May 2006	Hail	Murdo	-	no account filed
August 2006	Hail	Murdo	-	no account filed
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Murdo	-	no account filed
June 2005	Hail	Murdo	-	no account filed
May 2005	Hail	Murdo	-	no account filed
July 2005	Hail	Murdo	-	no account filed
July 2003	Hail	Murdo	-	no account filed
August 2003	Hail	Murdo	-	no account filed
June 2001	Hail	Murdo	-	no account filed
June 2001	Hail	Murdo	-	no account filed
May 2001	Hail	Murdo	-	no account filed
June 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Murdo	-	no account filed
March 2000	Hail	Murdo	-	no account filed
July 2000	Hail	Murdo	-	no account filed
July 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Murdo	-	no account filed
July 2000	Hail	Murdo	-	no account filed
July 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Murdo	-	no account filed
June 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Murdo	-	no account filed
August 1998	Hail	Murdo	-	no account filed
May 1998	Hail	Murdo	-	no account filed
June 1997	Hail	Murdo	-	no account filed
April 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Murdo	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Jones 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 88000022 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Jones County	All 5 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.