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Fairburn Historic Commercial District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2018.

From the record

One of 35 National Register listings published here for Custer County · listed in 2018 · category: District.

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

The listing

  • Address. Roughly, area surrounding Main St. between First and Second Sts., Fairburn, 57738
  • When was it listed? December 2018
  • Category. district
  • Also known as. Rural Resources of Eastern Custer County MPS
  • Unorganized territory. East Custer
  • National Register reference number. 95000772 - 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

25 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Fairburn Historic Commercial District between 2000 and 2020, burning about 1,137 acres in total. 8 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
Natural8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Equipment and vehicle use6
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Debris and open burning1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
10 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined250 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named
7 August 2005Naturalunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named
4 August 2012Naturalunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionSAGE
30 August 2005Natural1.3 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named
30 August 2005Natural1.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named
3 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression55
29 August 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined500 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionHERMOSA FIRE
18 August 2010Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionDOWNEN

Every fire recorded in Custer County

Storms near this property

60 of 149 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fairburn, the town this property stands in, in 149 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 96 hail, 51 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 flash 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 1998Thunderstorm WindFairburn$50,000A vacant mobile home was destroyed, a roof was torn off a shed and two twelve inch diameter trees were blown down.
July 2013Thunderstorm WindFairburn$50,000no account filed
June 2013HailFairburn$25,000Softball size hail damaged property.
July 2013HailFairburn$15,000no account filed
July 2013HailFairburn$10,000no account filed
July 2013Thunderstorm WindFairburn$5,000The combination of hail and wind caused minor damage.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindFairburn$5,000The combination of hail and wind caused minor damage.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindFairburn$5,000The combination of hail and wind broke windows on the west side of a house. A roof was blown off a shed.
June 2013HailFairburn$5,000no account filed
July 2013HailFairburn$3,000no account filed
June 2009HailFairburn$3,000no account filed
August 2012HailFairburn$2,000Hail driven by 52 mph wind gusts broke windows.
May 1993Tornado (F0)Fairburn$500A tractor-trailer was blown over near the junction of Highway 79 and Fairburn Road.
June 2025HailFairburn-Trained spotter reported hail size, estimated.
July 2025HailFairburn-Trained spotter reported quarter size hail.
July 2025HailFairburn-Public submitted report.
May 2024HailFairburn-Hail covered the ground. The largest hail was ping pong ball size, with lots of penny to nickel sized hail.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindFairburn-The spotter estimated wind gusts at 60 mph.
July 2024HailFairburn-Hail damage to home.
April 2022HailFairburn-Hail up to quarter size fell for most of 40 minutes.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindFairburn-Wind gusts to 60 mph accompanied the storm.
June 2019HailFairburn-Hail to ping-pong ball size fell for about 30 minutes.
June 2019HailFairburn-Golf ball sized hail fell for a half an hour at the Custer State Park east entrance and airport.
August 2018Thunderstorm WindFairburn-Wind gusts were estimated at 60 mph.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindFairburn-Small outbuildings were blown down by the wind.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindFairburn-Wind gusts were estimated at 70 mph.
May 2018Thunderstorm WindFairburn-A camper was blown over on its side.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindFairburn-Wind gusts were estimated at 60 mph.
August 2017HailFairburn-The spotter also estimated 40-50 mph wind gusts.
August 2017HailFairburn-A second wave of hail fell for ten minutes.
July 2015HailFairburn-Quarter sized hail was reported at the Custer State Park Game Lodge.
July 2015HailFairburn-The ground was covered with two inches of hail and a wind gust of 57 mph was recorded.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindFairburn-Wind gusts were estimated at 60 mph.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindFairburn-Wind gusts were estimated at 60 mph.
July 2013HailFairburn-Two inch diameter hail covered the ground.
August 2013Thunderstorm WindFairburn-Wind gusts were estimated at 60 mph.
August 2013Thunderstorm WindFairburn-Wind gusts estimated near 70 mph bent small trees.
July 2013Thunderstorm WindFairburn-Wind gusts were estimated at 60 mph.
August 2013Thunderstorm WindFairburn-Wind gusts were estimated at 60 mph.
July 2013HailFairburn-Reported at the Custer State Park Wildlife Visitors Center.
June 2012Thunderstorm WindFairburn-Wind gusts were estimated at 60 mph.
June 2012Thunderstorm WindFairburn-Wind gusts reached 60 mph at the Wildlife Visitors Center in Custer State Park.
October 2011Thunderstorm WindFairburn-Wind gusts were estimated at 60 mph.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindFairburn-Wind gusts were estimated at 60 mph.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindFairburn-Wind gusts were estimated at 60 mph.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindFairburn-Wind gusts were estimated at 60 mph.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindFairburn-Wind gusts were estimated at 60 mph.
August 2011HailFairburn-Strong wind gusts were also reported.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindFairburn-Wind gusts were estimated at 60 mph.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindFairburn-Wind gusts estimated around 60 mph.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindFairburn-Wind gusts were estimated at 60 mph.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindFairburn-Thunderstorm wind gusts bent small trees and blew over a large picnic table.
July 2009Thunderstorm WindFairburn-Wind gusts were estimated around 60 mph.
August 2002Thunderstorm WindFairburn-A large tree limb was downed by thunderstorm winds.
June 1999Flash FloodFairburn-Water along French and Grace Coolidge Creeks rose rapidly after 3 to 4 inches of rain in less then an hour. Some vehicles in the Hermosa area had water up to the doors because local drainage systems could not keep up with the water.
August 2024HailFairburn-no account filed
August 2024HailFairburn-no account filed
May 2024HailFairburn-no account filed
September 2024Thunderstorm WindFairburn-no account filed
August 2024HailFairburn-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Custer 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 recordThe nomination case file for reference 95000772 in Record Group 79.
Custer CountyAll 35 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.