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One of 10 National Register listings published here for McCook County · listed in 1997 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Ortman Hotel
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 201 W. Main St., Canistota, 57012
- When was it listed? February 1997
- Category. building
- City. Canistota city
- National Register reference number. 97000144 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
4 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Ortman Hotel between 1999 and 2012, burning about 12 acres in total. None 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 August 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | I90 #2 |
| 1 March 1999 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Agar Volunteer Fire Department | SHOUP FARM |
| 14 December 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | not named |
| 27 November 2011 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | D. WHITE |
Storms near this property
56 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Canistota, the town this property stands in, in 56 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 31 hail, 18 thunderstorm wind, 3 flood, 2 tornado. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Canistota | $250,000 | Thunderstorm winds damaged numerous homes and other structures, as well as trees and power lines. Roofs were blown off a seed company building, a lumber yard building, and a large machine shed. Additional damage was done to these buildings and others. Shingles were blown off several roofs. The grandstand and one dugout at a ball park was destroyed, and the other dugout, the lights, and the outfield fence were damaged. Debris from the ball park was blown into a yard a block and a half away. Several vehicles were damaged, including windows blown out or knocked out by debris. |
| July 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Canistota | $100,000 | Thunderstorm winds destroyed several farm buildings, moved a large barn from its foundation, broke windows, and tore off siding from a house. The winds also caused tree damage, including large trees uprooted. |
| June 1999 | Hail | Canistota | $100,000 | Large hail broke many windows and dented vehicles. The hail also caused crop damage, but the amount of damage was not determined. |
| May 1998 | Tornado (F1) | Canistota | $100,000 | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Canistota | $50,000 | Thunderstorm winds blew a fertilizer wagon into a car, blew over a propane tank, and caused tree damage. |
| July 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Canistota | $30,000 | Thunderstorm winds rolled and destroyed a camper. |
| August 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Canistota | $25,000 | Lids were ripped off grain bins, with large tree branches down. Property damage costs are rough estimates. |
| September 2019 | Flood | Canistota | $25,000 | After excessive two-day rainfall in the headwaters of the Vermillion River (6.78 inches 2 miles east of Montrose, 5.63 inches at Montrose), the East Fork of the Vermillion River near Parker (gage site VRPS2) reached the highest crest on record of 5.09 feet above flood stage on September 13. Numerous county roads and bridges from the gaging site upstream were inundated. |
| July 2011 | Hail | Canistota | $25,000 | Large hail stripped leaves off trees, dented vehicles, and caused an unknown amount of crop damage. |
| July 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Canistota | $10,000 | Metal roof panels were ripped off a small apartment building. |
| September 2019 | Flash Flood | Canistota | $10,000 | Water up to 2 feet in depth flooded many roads in Canistota. |
| July 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Canistota | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts were measured by a personal weather station. |
| March 2023 | Hail | Canistota | - | Hail varied from dime to nickel size. |
| May 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Canistota | - | A 1480-foot TV broadcast tower built in 1976 was downed by thunderstorm winds. |
| July 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Canistota | - | Several large branches were downed by thunderstorm winds in Canistota. |
| May 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Canistota | - | A single family home lost sections of its roof. |
| August 2021 | Hail | Canistota | - | Crop damage is an estimate from insured losses. Information provided by the United States Department of Agriculture. |
| May 2019 | Flood | Canistota | - | The East Fork of the Vermillion River near Parker (gage site VRPS2) reached a crest of 0.18 feet above flood stage on May 29. Impacts were mainly agricultural, causing further delays to spring planting and preparations throughout the flood plain. |
| March 2019 | Flood | Canistota | - | Snow melt and heavy rainfall (measured 3.13 inches at Bridgewater and 2.75 inches at Montrose) resulted in extensive flooding of agricultural lands and inundation of numerous county and township roads (including bridges on 455th and 456th Avenue east of Parker). The East Fork of the Vermillion River near Parker (gage site VRPS2) reached the highest stage on record cresting 4.09 feet above flood stage on March 14. |
| July 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Canistota | - | Heavy damage to the grain elevator in Canistota. |
| June 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Canistota | - | Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including trees blown down. |
| June 2014 | Heavy Rain | Canistota | - | Rainfall of 4.50 inches was measured since midnight. |
| June 2010 | Hail | Canistota | - | Large hail was accompanied by 25 mph winds. |
| August 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Canistota | - | Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including several branches blown down. |
| May 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Canistota | - | Thunderstorm winds blew down small branches. |
| July 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Canistota | - | Thunderstorm winds caused tree and power line damage, including 3 inch diameter branches blown down. A resulting power outage lasted about 2 hours. |
| July 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Canistota | - | Thunderstorm winds caused tree and power line damage. The amount of damage was not known. |
| July 2000 | Tornado (F0) | Canistota | - | A brief tornado caused no reported damage. |
| July 1997 | Hail | Canistota | - | Hail caused an undetermined amount of crop damage. |
| July 2025 | Hail | Canistota | - | no account filed |
| June 2024 | Hail | Canistota | - | no account filed |
| July 2024 | Hail | Canistota | - | no account filed |
| June 2024 | Hail | Canistota | - | no account filed |
| August 2021 | Hail | Canistota | - | no account filed |
| July 2019 | Hail | Canistota | - | no account filed |
| September 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Canistota | - | no account filed |
| August 2015 | Hail | Canistota | - | no account filed |
| June 2014 | Hail | Canistota | - | no account filed |
| July 2008 | Hail | Canistota | - | no account filed |
| June 2007 | Hail | Canistota | - | no account filed |
| June 2007 | Hail | Canistota | - | no account filed |
| June 2007 | Hail | Canistota | - | no account filed |
| July 2007 | Hail | Canistota | - | no account filed |
| July 2006 | Hail | Canistota | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Canistota | - | no account filed |
| April 2004 | Hail | Canistota | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Canistota | - | no account filed |
| June 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Canistota | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Hail | Canistota | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Hail | Canistota | - | no account filed |
| April 2002 | Hail | Canistota | - | no account filed |
| April 2002 | Hail | Canistota | - | no account filed |
| April 2002 | Hail | Canistota | - | no account filed |
| April 2002 | Hail | Canistota | - | no account filed |
| August 2001 | Hail | Canistota | - | no account filed |
| July 1997 | Hail | Canistota | - | no account filed |
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.
Listed places nearby
1 within 8 milesOther 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.
| Photograph | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Salem Rest Stop Tipi-Westbound | 7.8 miles | 2015 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 97000144 in Record Group 79. |
| McCook County | All 10 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.