Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2024.
From the record
“The Buffalo Gap Historic Commercial District, is a historic district in Buffalo Gap, South Dakota, United States, that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP).”
Wikipedia article Buffalo Gap Historic Commercial District, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 35 National Register listings published here for Custer County · listed in 2024 · category: District.
Also known as. Rural Resources of Eastern Custer County MPS
Town. Buffalo Gap town
National Register reference number.95000774- 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
54 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 54 fires within 5 miles of Buffalo Gap Historic Commercial District
between 1992 and 2019, burning about 663 acres in total. 34 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
Natural
34
Debris and open burning
6
Equipment and vehicle use
5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
4
Power generation/transmission/distribution
2
Other causes
1
Misuse of fire by a minor
1
Fireworks
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
3 workings within 5 miles of Buffalo Gap Historic Commercial District: 3 past producers.
None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Flagstone. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Buffalo Gap, the town this property stands in, in 54 storm reports between 1993 and 2024: 37 hail, 13 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 flash flood.
The reports record 1 injury. 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.
A lightning bolt hit a storm chaser as he was filming a storm. The charge traveled to the ground and blew a hole in the pavement. The chaser's car and another car were disabled.
Runoff from heavy rain flooded creeks and inundated roads. Flooding was reported on US Highway 16A near the Coolidge General Store and the Wildlife Loop Road in Custer State Park. Battle Creek covered several roads west of Hermosa. Spring Creek covered portions of Lower Spring Creek Road east of Hermosa. Cottonwood Creek overtopped Cottonwood Cutoff Road east of Buffalo Gap.
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
1 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.
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.
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