Grant County Courthouse

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.

From the record

“The Grant County Courthouse is an historic building located at Park Avenue and Main Street in Milbank, South Dakota. It was built in 1915 in the Classical Revival style and was designed by architects Bell & Bentley of Minneapolis, who also designed the South Dakota State Capitol in Pierre.”
Wikipedia article Grant County Courthouse (South Dakota), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 15 National Register listings published here for Grant County · listed in 1993 · 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. Jct. of Park Ave. and Main St., Milbank, 57252
When was it listed? February 1993
Category. building
Also known as. County Courthouses of South Dakota MPS
City. Milbank city
Architectural style. Neoclassical architecture
Architect. Charles E. Bell
National Register reference number. 92001858 - 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.

Mines and quarries near this property

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Grant County Courthouse: 8 producers, 1 past producer. 8 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Granite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
American Rose Quarry	Granite	Producer
B F Coggins Granite Co Pit	Granite	Past Producer
Mahogany Quarry	Granite	Producer
Steiner Rausch Granite Pit	Granite	Producer
Barlund Sand & Gravel Co Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Korstjens Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Mueller Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Stolpman Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Stolpman Pit No 2	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Grant County

Storms near this property

60 of 72 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Milbank, the town this property stands in, in 72 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 34 hail, 20 thunderstorm wind, 6 flash flood, 5 tornado. The reports record 2 injuries. 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 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Milbank	2 hurt	Many trees were downed throughout the city of Milbank. Two semis were blown off of Highway 12 near Milbank resulting in injuries to the drivers.
June 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Milbank	$131,000	Eighty mph winds caused major tree and structural damage in and around Milbank. Many trees were downed.
August 2017	Lightning	Milbank	$10,000	Lightning blew out a transformer which snapped a power pole and downed some power lines in Milbank.
August 2007	Lightning	Milbank	$2,000	Lightning struck a home in Milbank damaging some of the siding, sheet rock, electrical wiring and outlets, and blew a chunk of cement out of the basement.
June 2025	Flood	Milbank	-	The Milbank COOP observer reported standing water in farm fields between Milbank and Twin Brooks.
June 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Milbank	-	Significant straight-line wind snapped and uprooted many trees at the cemetery northeast of Milbank. It also destroyed a two-stall shed and another outbuilding had roof damage.
June 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Milbank	-	A large section of the roof on a dairy barn was blown off by estimated eighty to ninety mph winds.
June 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Milbank	-	Multiple trees were downed by estimated seventy to eighty mph winds along with many electrical lines downed. A few fires were started by the electrical lines.
August 2017	Hail	Milbank	-	Hail covered the entire highway.
August 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Milbank	-	Sixty mph winds were estimated.
June 2014	Flash Flood	Milbank	-	Numerous county roads were over topped around Milbank along with a few culverts being washed out. A quick 2 to 3 inches of rain brought on the flash flooding.
August 2014	Flash Flood	Milbank	-	Very heavy rains of 4 to over 5 inches resulted in the flash flooding of a few roads north of Milbank. One road was closed for a time due to flash flooding.
June 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Milbank	-	Major tree and structural damage occurred in and around Milbank from eighty mph winds.
June 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Milbank	-	A lot of tree damage occurred along State Highway 15 into Milbank.
June 2012	Flash Flood	Milbank	-	Heavy rain caused flash flooding of a county road west of Milbank.
June 2012	Flash Flood	Milbank	-	Heavy rain caused flash flooding of another county road southwest of Milbank.
July 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Milbank	-	Sixty mph winds were estimated in Milbank.
June 2007	Flash Flood	Milbank	-	Heavy rains of 2 to 3 inches caused flash flooding of several roads in Milbank.
August 2006	Tornado (F1)	Milbank	-	A tornado north of Milbank destroyed a well built machine shed, moved some farm machinery, and snapped several medium sized trees off.
June 2005	Flash Flood	Milbank	-	Heavy rains flooded several roads around Milbank.
February 2000	Lightning	Milbank	-	Late in the evening in Milbank, lightning damaged a few homes, a carwash, the alarms at two schools, a power pole and a transformer. The wiring in one house was severely damaged and the ham radio was damaged at another house.
September 2000	Lightning	Milbank	-	Lightning struck a large cottonwood tree in Milbank. Bark and parts of the tree were stripped off heavily damaging the siding of a 32 foot camper and breaking several windows.
July 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Milbank	-	An old barn was blown over by 70 mph winds.
August 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Milbank	-	Winds gusting to 65 mph in and around Milbank took the roof off a mobile home in southeast Milbank and wrapped it around a utility pole. The people inside the mobile home got out uninjured, but their belongings inside were rain soaked. The Summit Dairy Barn had sustained major damage. The high winds also blew a shed and a large tennis court fence down. Several trees along with many large tree branches were downed all over town. The power was out on the west side of town for a few hours.
August 2025	Hail	Milbank	-	no account filed
August 2025	Hail	Milbank	-	no account filed
August 2021	Hail	Milbank	-	no account filed
August 2021	Hail	Milbank	-	no account filed
August 2021	Hail	Milbank	-	no account filed
August 2020	Hail	Milbank	-	no account filed
August 2020	Hail	Milbank	-	no account filed
July 2018	Hail	Milbank	-	no account filed
August 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Milbank	-	no account filed
August 2017	Hail	Milbank	-	no account filed
August 2017	Hail	Milbank	-	no account filed
May 2014	Hail	Milbank	-	no account filed
June 2012	Hail	Milbank	-	no account filed
August 2010	Hail	Milbank	-	no account filed
August 2010	Hail	Milbank	-	no account filed
June 2007	Hail	Milbank	-	no account filed
June 2007	Hail	Milbank	-	no account filed
April 2007	Hail	Milbank	-	no account filed
April 2007	Hail	Milbank	-	no account filed
September 2007	Hail	Milbank	-	no account filed
June 2006	Hail	Milbank	-	no account filed
June 2005	Hail	Milbank	-	no account filed
June 2005	Hail	Milbank	-	no account filed
August 2005	Hail	Milbank	-	no account filed
August 2004	Hail	Milbank	-	no account filed
July 2003	Hail	Milbank	-	no account filed
June 2002	Hail	Milbank	-	no account filed
June 2002	Hail	Milbank	-	no account filed
May 2002	Hail	Milbank	-	no account filed
August 2002	Hail	Milbank	-	no account filed
June 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Milbank	-	no account filed
November 2000	Lightning	Milbank	-	no account filed
October 1999	Wildfire	Milbank	-	no account filed
July 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Milbank	-	no account filed
May 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Milbank	-	no account filed
July 1998	Hail	Milbank	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Grant 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

6 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
First National Bank of Milbank	0.2 miles	1978
Milbank Carnegie Library	0.5 miles	1978
First Congregational Church of Milbank	0.7 miles	1978
Emil and Hannah Johnson House	0.7 miles	2008
Hollands Grist Mill	0.9 miles	1981
George and Mary Koch Farm	4.4 miles	2008

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 92001858 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Grant County	All 15 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.
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.