Holy Spirit Chapel

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.

From the record

“The Holy Spirit Chapel in Firesteel, South Dakota was built in 1923 on the east bank of Firesteel Creek. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.”
Wikipedia article Holy Spirit Chapel, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 4 National Register listings published here for Corson County · listed in 1995 · 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. SE of SD 65 crossing of Grand R., N of Firesteel, Firesteel, 57633
When was it listed? July 1995
Category. building
Unorganized territory. West Corson
National Register reference number. 95000817 - 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

30 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 30 fires within 5 miles of Holy Spirit Chapel between 1999 and 2018, burning about 19,388 acres in total. 18 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
Natural	18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Arson/incendiarism	1
Other causes	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Fireworks	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 September 2000	Natural	65 acres	McIntosh Volunteer Fire Department	KLEIN RANCH
5 September 2000	Natural	80 acres	Isabel Volunteer Fire Department	CLINT RECH
27 September 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	HWY 65
17 September 2016	Other causes	under an acre	Standing Rock Agency	BIN
14 September 2017	Natural	under an acre	Standing Rock Agency	LIGHTNING-13-17
8 August 2001	Natural	70 acres	Standing Rock Agency	MAHER
4 August 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Standing Rock Agency	NEW HOLLAND
31 August 2008	Natural	1.0 acres	Standing Rock Agency	BRETT THEIL

Every fire recorded in Corson 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 record	The nomination case file for reference 95000817 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Corson County	All 4 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.