Built in 1901. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.
From the record
“The Pollock Depot is a historic former railroad station on Avenue A in Pollock, South Dakota. It is a wood-frame structure with a gable roof, with two sections, one two stories, and the other a single story.”
Wikipedia article Pollock station, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 2 National Register listings published here for Campbell County · listed in 1996 · category: Building · built in 1901.
National Register reference number.96001229- 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
4 since 2006
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Pollock Depot
between 2006 and 2015, burning about 110 acres in total. 3 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
3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
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
2 workings within 5 miles of Pollock Depot: 2 past producers.
None of them 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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Pollock, the town this property stands in, in 52 storm reports between 1996 and 2026: 27 thunderstorm wind, 20 hail, 1 tornado, 1 lightning.
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.
Weak storms generated winds strong enough to flatten a 10 by 10 outbuilding and gazebo at a residence 5 miles east of the town of Pollock in Campbell county.
Extremely dry and windy conditions contributed to a fire at the Pollock rubble site. The fire spread to the nearby prairie and consumed many acres. The fire came within yards of a new home under construction. The fire was finally contained late in the evening.
Lightning struck the chimney on a bait shop shattering it down to the roof level. Parts of the cement block chimney were laying on both sides of the building. The lightning also knocked out the freezer and the aerator in the minnow tank, killing all of the minnows. The business next to the bait shop lost their stereo system and two video poker machines from the lightning strike. All businesses on the south side of main street were without telephone service.
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.
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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