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First State Bank of Hazel

Built in 1901 (Neoclassical architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.

From the record

“The First State Bank of Hazel, located on Main St. west of its junction with Highway 22 in Hazel, South Dakota, was built in 1901. It has also been known as Farmers State Bank of Hazel.”

Wikipedia article First State Bank of Hazel, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 15 National Register listings published here for Hamlin County · listed in 1997 · category: Building · built in 1901, Neoclassical architecture.

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. Main St., W of jct. with SD 22, Hazel, 57242
  • When was it listed? February 1997
  • Category. building
  • Township. Brantford township
  • When was it built? 1901
  • Architectural style. Neoclassical architecture
  • National Register reference number. 97000147 - 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

11 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of First State Bank of Hazel between 2000 and 2013, burning about 176 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 burning6
Equipment and vehicle use3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
6 August 2006Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named
17 July 2000Debris and open burningunder an acreHazel Volunteer Fire DepartmentRURAL HAZEL
21 May 2002Debris and open burning60 acresHazel Volunteer Fire DepartmentLAKNESS
6 April 2000Debris and open burning2.0 acresHazel Volunteer Fire DepartmentGROVER
5 April 2000Debris and open burning10 acresHazel Volunteer Fire DepartmentHAZEL DUMP
29 March 2000Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresHazel Volunteer Fire DepartmentBNSF RIGHT OF WAY
29 March 2000Debris and open burning80 acresHazel Volunteer Fire DepartmentBRYCE
27 March 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresHazel Volunteer Fire DepartmentBRANTFORD

Every fire recorded in Hamlin County

Storms near this property

42 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hazel, the town this property stands in, in 42 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 25 hail, 8 flood, 4 tornado, 3 thunderstorm wind. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2022Tornado (EF1)Hazel1 hurtThe residents were outside when they saw the tornado quickly develop and were forced to seek shelter under a tractor. The tornado ripped the entire roof off of a newly built machine shed and also damaged the exterior walls. Debris was spread to the north, with sheet metal and pieces of rafters lofted into nearby trees. The tornado continued to track north northwest about a half mile. The tops of trees were snapped off in one shelterbelt and a clear path was evident in a second shelterbelt.
April 2011FloodHazel$800,000Snowmelt flooding damaged many roads and highways, including U.S. Highway 81, throughout Hamlin County. Many roads were closed throughout the county. In the late evening of April 13th on U.S Highway 81, a car with four people inside went through a flooded area at a high rate of speed and ended up in the flooded ditch. They all got out with no injuries.
April 2019FloodHazel$201,900no account filed
June 2010Flash FloodHazel$50,000Many township roads were flooded throughout Hamlin county with several of the roads being washed out.
August 2025Tornado (EF0)Hazel-A tornado touched down over cropland just east of 439th Ave and about a half-mile south of 183rd St. The tornado tracked northeast, crossing 183rd St. Tree damage was noted just before the tornado then crossed 440th Ave. The tornado crossed a farmstead where several empty grain bins were detached from their foundations and destroyed. The last evidence of the tornado was in a crop field roughly a half mile north of this farm and less than a mile southwest of the town of Hazel.
April 2023FloodHazel-A few roads, including County Road 465 north of Estelline, had water across the roadway from overland flooding.
March 2019FloodHazel-Snowmelt flooded several roads throughout Hamlin county especially along the Big Sioux River.
June 2014Flash FloodHazel-Very heavy rains of 3 to 4 inches had resulted in full ditches, culverts running full, along with several roads and a county highway being overtopped.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindHazel-Many trees were downed in Hazel.
March 2011FloodHazel-Snowmelt water caused the biggest issues for the people of Hamlin county with rising lake levels along with many roads, crop and pastureland flooded. The rising level on Lake Poinsett would eventually cause the most damage in the county in April. See storm data entry on April Hamlin county lakeshore flooding.
July 2010HailHazel-A supercell thunderstorm entered western Hamlin county and tracked southeast producing quarter to baseball size hail along with damaging winds in excess of 70 mph. The large hail and strong winds caused extensive damage to homes, outbuildings, vehicles, and especially crops. Thousands of acres of corn, soybeans, and wheat were damaged or destroyed across Hamlin county. Also, many trees and gardens were damaged by the hail and high winds.
May 2005Thunderstorm WindHazel-High winds downed a few trees west of Hazel and also blew the door off a building.
June 2001Tornado (F0)Hazel-A tornado touched down briefly northwest of Hazel. No damage occurred.
June 1999Thunderstorm WindHazel-Winds gusting to 80 mph snapped off several trees, blew a garage down, and brought power lines down in Hazel.
July 2025HailHazel-no account filed
June 2024HailHazel-no account filed
May 2022HailHazel-no account filed
June 2019FloodHazel-no account filed
May 2019FloodHazel-no account filed
July 2018HailHazel-no account filed
July 2017HailHazel-no account filed
July 2016HailHazel-no account filed
May 2015HailHazel-no account filed
May 2015HailHazel-no account filed
August 2015HailHazel-no account filed
September 2013HailHazel-no account filed
June 2012HailHazel-no account filed
July 2010HailHazel-no account filed
March 2010FloodHazel-no account filed
June 2008HailHazel-no account filed
June 2006HailHazel-no account filed
August 2006HailHazel-no account filed
August 2004HailHazel-no account filed
August 2004HailHazel-no account filed
June 2003HailHazel-no account filed
June 2003HailHazel-no account filed
June 2002HailHazel-no account filed
June 2001HailHazel-no account filed
August 2000HailHazel-no account filed
June 1999HailHazel-no account filed
September 1997HailHazel-no account filed
May 1996Tornado (F0)Hazel-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Hamlin 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 recordThe nomination case file for reference 97000147 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Hamlin CountyAll 15 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.