Bank of Buffalo County

Built in 1921. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.

From the record

“The Bank of Buffalo County, on Main St. in Gann Valley, South Dakota, is an Early Commercial-style building built in 1921. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.”
Wikipedia article Bank of Buffalo County, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 3 National Register listings published here for Buffalo County · listed in 1999 · category: Building · built in 1921.

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., Gann Valley, 57341
When was it listed? February 1999
Category. building
Township. Elvira township
When was it built? 1921
National Register reference number. 99000206 - 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

5 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Bank of Buffalo County between 2002 and 2012, burning about 639 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Debris and open burning	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
8 August 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	50 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	SPRING VALLY
6 August 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	KOLOUSEK
6 June 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	40 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
17 April 2008	Debris and open burning	545 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
11 February 2002	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Lower Brule Agency	WILDFIRE

Every fire recorded in Buffalo County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Bank of Buffalo County: 1 past producer. 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.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Buffalo 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 99000206 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Buffalo County	All 3 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.
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.