Duncan Church

Built in 1927. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.

From the record

“Duncan Church, also known as Saint Placidus Catholic Church, is a historic church near Gann Valley, South Dakota. It is located southwest of Crow Creek, about 2 miles (3.2 km) south of the county line.”
Wikipedia article Duncan Church, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 3 National Register listings published here for Buffalo County · listed in 1999 · category: Building · built in 1927.

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 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. SW of Crow Creek, 2 mi. S of Cty line, Gann Valley, 57341
When was it listed? February 1999
Category. building
Unorganized territory. North Buffalo
When was it built? 1927
National Register reference number. 99000207 - 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

6 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Duncan Church between 2000 and 2009, burning about 6,742 acres in total. 1 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
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Debris and open burning	2
Natural	1
Other causes	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
17 July 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	80 acres	Crow Creek Agency	DUAL
15 July 2006	Natural	600 acres	Crow Creek Agency	PICK-UP
15 July 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	500 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
29 April 2008	Debris and open burning	320 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
6 March 2000	Other causes	5,000 acres	Miller Volunteer Fire Department	KOCH
6 November 2009	Debris and open burning	242 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named

Every fire 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.

Listed places nearby

1 within 8 miles

Other 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
	Long View Stock Farm	5.3 miles	2018

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 99000207 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.