Telemarken Lutheran Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.

From the record

“Telemarken Lutheran Church is a historic church near Wallace, South Dakota. The church was added to the National Register in 1989.”
Wikipedia article Telemarken Lutheran Church, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 10 National Register listings published here for Clark County · listed in 1989 · category: Building.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. NW of Wallace, Wallace, 57272
When was it listed? October 1989
Category. building
Township. Blaine township
Architectural style. Gothic Revival
National Register reference number. 89001720 - 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

13 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Telemarken Lutheran Church between 1999 and 2020, burning about 688 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	7
Debris and open burning	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Recreation and ceremony	1
Smoking	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
6 August 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	MELAND FIRE
5 August 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
23 April 2018	Recreation and ceremony	5.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	HORNING
21 April 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	3.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	GRAZING ACERS
20 April 1999	Debris and open burning	30 acres	Ipswich Volunteer Fire Department	HOFFMAN
16 April 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	468 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
16 April 2007	Debris and open burning	120 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
10 April 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	YEXLY

Every fire recorded in Clark County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Telemarken Lutheran Church: 2 past producers. 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
	Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Clark 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 89001720 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Clark County	All 10 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.