Delmont Public School

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.

From the record

“The Delmont Public School is a historic former school building at 205 West Third Street in Delmont, South Dakota. It is a three-story brick building, designed by the Nebraska firm of Grabe and Hellberg and built in 1923.”
Wikipedia article Delmont Public School, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 7 National Register listings published here for Douglas County · listed in 1994 · 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. 205 W. Third, Delmont, 57330
When was it listed? June 1994
Category. building
Township. Belmont township
National Register reference number. 94000560 - 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

8 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Delmont Public School between 2008 and 2020, burning about 39 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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
Debris and open burning	4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Arson/incendiarism	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
5 April 2011	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	GREEN WOOD COLONY IRON PILE
19 April 2008	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
9 March 2015	Smoking	3.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	NEW 18 WEST
7 March 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	1/2 MILE WEST OF DELMONT
21 March 2012	Debris and open burning	20 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	MARUIN LAU 2012-01
5 December 2020	Debris and open burning	10 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	LEDEBOER202001
18 December 2010	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Yankton Agency	SANTA CLAUS
14 November 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	GOEHRING STALKS

Every fire recorded in Douglas County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Delmont Public School: 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Delmont Hieb Sand Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Grosz Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
James Goetz Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Douglas County

Storms near this property

39 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Delmont, the town this property stands in, in 39 storm reports between 1999 and 2025: 28 hail, 8 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 1 wildfire. The reports record 1 death and 10 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
March 2000	Wildfire	Delmont	1 killed, 1 hurt, $5,000	no account filed
May 2015	Tornado (EF2)	Delmont	9 hurt, $1,500,000	A tornado, crossing into Douglas County from Charles Mix County, destroyed or damaged 84 structures in and near Delmont, and injured 9 people in Delmont. About 50 of the homes and other structures were destroyed or severely damaged. The damage included numerous small farm buildings totally destroyed, most at four farms south of Delmont, several houses severely damaged, a large and 100 year old church severely damaged, and a newly constructed fire hall destroyed. Power lines and poles were down and the town was without power and water for two days. 100 residents were displaced.
July 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Delmont	$5,000	Thunderstorm winds destroyed a machine shed, and caused tree damage.
September 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Delmont	$1,000	Thunderstorm winds damaged a metal barn.
July 2023	Hail	Delmont	-	Golf ball to tennis ball sized hail fell straight down, which cracked the windshield on a parked pickup truck.
June 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Delmont	-	The temporary roof was blown off a school.
June 2020	Hail	Delmont	-	Crop damage is an estimate from insured losses. Information provided by the United States Department of Agriculture.
July 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Delmont	-	Significant tree damage and some damage to buildings in town. Power was knocked out to most of the town through the morning hours.
April 2018	Hail	Delmont	-	First of two quarter size hail events for the day.
April 2018	Hail	Delmont	-	The ground was covered with three to four inches of hail. Hail was accompanied by 25 to 30 mph winds, which pounded some paint off an outbuilding.
July 2014	Hail	Delmont	-	Large hail, driven by strong winds, broke windows and dented vehicles.
September 2012	Hail	Delmont	-	Large hail was accompanied by damaging wind gusts.
September 2006	Hail	Delmont	-	Large hail damaged siding, windows, and cars. The damage was significant but confined to a small area according to local law enforcement. The amount of damage was not known.
September 2006	Hail	Delmont	-	Large hail damaged siding, windows, and cars. The damage was significant but confined to a small area according to local law enforcement. The amount of damage was not known.
September 2006	Tornado (F0)	Delmont	-	A brief tornado caused no reported damage.
August 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Delmont	-	Thunderstorm winds damaged power lines, causing a power outage.
August 2025	Hail	Delmont	-	no account filed
July 2023	Hail	Delmont	-	no account filed
April 2022	Hail	Delmont	-	no account filed
April 2018	Hail	Delmont	-	no account filed
August 2017	Hail	Delmont	-	no account filed
June 2017	Hail	Delmont	-	no account filed
May 2011	Hail	Delmont	-	no account filed
June 2010	Hail	Delmont	-	no account filed
June 2010	Hail	Delmont	-	no account filed
June 2009	Hail	Delmont	-	no account filed
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Delmont	-	no account filed
June 2008	Hail	Delmont	-	no account filed
May 2008	Hail	Delmont	-	no account filed
August 2007	Hail	Delmont	-	no account filed
July 2004	Hail	Delmont	-	no account filed
July 2004	Hail	Delmont	-	no account filed
July 2004	Hail	Delmont	-	no account filed
August 2002	Hail	Delmont	-	no account filed
August 2002	Hail	Delmont	-	no account filed
August 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Delmont	-	no account filed
August 2002	Hail	Delmont	-	no account filed
May 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Delmont	-	no account filed
May 1999	Hail	Delmont	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Douglas 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

4 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
Delmont Pumphouse	0.2 miles	1998
Thomas Lenehan House	0.2 miles	1988
Stevens Opera Block	0.2 miles	1988
Delmont State Bank	0.3 miles	2008

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 94000560 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Douglas County	All 7 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.
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.