Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.
From the record
“The Welsh Presbyterian Church in Plana, South Dakota is a historic church about 7 miles (11 km) north of SD 12 and 1 mile (1.6 km) east of SD 16. The church was built in 1887 by Welsh immigrants.”
Wikipedia article Welsh Presbyterian Church (Plana, South Dakota), CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 42 National Register listings published here for Brown County · listed in 1995 · category: Building.
Also known as. Rural Resources of Brown County MPS
Township. Cambria township
National Register reference number.95000776- 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
22 since 2000
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 22 fires within 5 miles of Welsh Presbyterian Church
between 2000 and 2017, burning about 7,051 acres in total. 1 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
12
Equipment and vehicle use
5
Debris and open burning
2
Smoking
1
Fireworks
1
Natural
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
1 working within 5 miles of Welsh Presbyterian Church: 1 producer.
All of them still produce. 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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Plana, the town this property stands in, in 14 storm reports between 2009 and 2025: 9 flood, 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail.
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.
The river near Columbia went into flood at 9:15 p.m. CST on August 10th and remained in flood through the rest of the month. It crested at 15.15 feet, which is 2.15 feet above flood stage, primarily impacting agricultural lands.
Despite cresting in August, the James River would remain in flood through much of the month of September. The James River near Columbia fell below flood stage late in the morning of September 22nd. This flooding mainly impacts agricultural bottomlands.
The James River near Columbia started the month at 17.80 feet, and crested at 18.07 feet on May 13th, and has been more or less steady with a slight trend downwards through the latter half of May. Impacts are limited to flooding of agricultural lands.
The James River near Columbia crested just below major flood stage at 17.85 feet on April 30th. This flooding impacted a significant amount of agricultural lands.
The James river gauge at Columbia observed a level of 16.0 feet on August 1st. Over the course of the month the river level dropped slowly, finally falling below the flood stage of 13.0 feet on the morning of August 23rd, 130 days after the initial start of flooding. Flooding continued to mostly impact cropland and pastures, along with a few county roads.
Seventy mph winds blew down a grain bin and tossed it approximately 50 yards taking out a power pole in the process. The grain bin was empty and not properly anchored to the cement base.
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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