Dell Rapids had a large fire in 1888, which burned the south side of Main Street.

A few years later another fire destroyed the office of the newspaper, The Dell Rapids Times.

[2] The 45-foot (14 m) water tower is built with Sioux quartzite, a type of red-pink rock found in southern South Dakota, southwest Minnesota, and northwest Iowa.

[3] The tower was added to the National Register of Historic Places on February 23, 1984.

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