St. Peter's Catholic Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.

From the record

“Peter's Catholic Church is a parish of the Diocese of Sioux Falls based in Jefferson, South Dakota. Its church building at 400 Main Street was built in 1891 and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.”
Wikipedia article St. Peter's Catholic Church (Jefferson, South Dakota), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 16 National Register listings published here for Union County · listed in 1989 · category: District.

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. 400 Main St., Jerrerson, 57038
When was it listed? July 1989
Category. district
Township. Jefferson township
Architectural style. Romanesque Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 89000833 - 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

43 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 43 fires within 5 miles of St. Peter's Catholic Church between 1998 and 2020, burning about 324 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	25
Debris and open burning	10
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Recreation and ceremony	2
Fireworks	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	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 September 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	3.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	BERNARD
6 July 1999	Fireworks	under an acre	North Sioux Volunteer Fire Department	DAKOTA DUNES
5 July 2002	Fireworks	under an acre	North Sioux Volunteer Fire Department	I-29 MM 4
4 July 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	NORTON
22 July 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
20 July 2007	Debris and open burning	20 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
11 July 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	I29 12
9 June 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Jefferson Volunteer Fire Department	DURAN

Every fire recorded in Union County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of St. Peter's Catholic Church: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. 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
	Miller Quarry	Clay	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Union 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 89000833 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Union County	All 16 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.