Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Its Register listings are the Hyde County Courthouse, the Augustus and Augusta Gerhart House and the Hyde County Memorial Auditorium. Below: old-book passages.
The Highmore post office opened in 1882, the earliest record of the town by name.
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Highmore’s history is told.
From Wikipedia’s history of Highmore.
A post office called Highmore has been in operation since 1882. The city was named from its lofty elevation.
It was near Highmore that South Dakota Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg struck and killed a pedestrian in 2020.
In June 2026, severe storms with wind gusts of up to 131 MPH caused serious damage to many homes and buildings in and around Highmore.
Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Passages that mention Highmore, cut from the printed page as they were published.
CHURCHES METHODIST The first church organization in Highmore was the Methodist Church. It was incorporated under the general law of the Territory by articles of incorporation dated June i8, 1883, which articles provided among other things that there should be trustees to manage its affairs, of numbers not under three and not over nine, and that the incorporated name of the organization should be "The
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worst horror of all was the loss of life in the north part and more particularly in the northwest. The second day on Tuesday the wind seemed worse in its fury and for a while threatened to sweep the town of Highmore out of existance, and this same wind brought the fumes of the burning prairie, and although no fire could be seen fears were felt that frox the northwest the flames were sweeping on in the work of distruction.
Text read by machine from the scan; it may contain errors.Scans and text from the Internet Archive. Books published in 1930 or earlier, which are in the public domain.
The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.
National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.
Nobody well known was born in Highmore itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
The Highmore post office opened in 1882, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
Three places: the Hyde County Courthouse (listed 1978), the Augustus and Augusta Gerhart House (1997) and the Hyde County Memorial Auditorium (2018).
What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.
Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021). How TownRatings grades history →
From Wikimedia Commons (5), the National Register of Historic Places (3), Wikipedia, the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock), the USGS Geographic Names Information System and old county and town histories (Internet Archive). Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.
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