Minuteman Missile National Historic Site

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

From the record

“The Minuteman Missile National Historic Site is an American national historic site established in 1999 near Wall, South Dakota, to illustrate the history and significance of the Cold War, the nuclear arms race, and intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) development. The site preserves the last intact Minuteman II ICBM system in the United States, in a disarmed and demilitarized status.”
Wikipedia article Minuteman Missile National Historic Site, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 7 National Register listings published here for Jackson County · listed in 1999 · category: Site · built in 1999.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. Off of I 90, N of Rapid City, Rapid City, 57790
When was it listed? November 1999
Category. site
When was it built? 1999
National Register reference number. 01000275 - 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

26 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 26 fires within 5 miles of Minuteman Missile National Historic Site between 1996 and 2020, burning about 3,066 acres in total. 10 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	11
Natural	10
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Recreation and ceremony	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
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
19 September 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Nebraska National Forest	MILE MARKER 121
1 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	47 acres	Nebraska National Forest	WHITEWATER
7 August 2011	Natural	2.8 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	STUBBLE
7 August 2006	Natural	100 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
28 August 2001	Natural	under an acre	Nebraska National Forest	CUTBANK
25 August 2005	Natural	1.4 acres	Badlands National Park	VELOX
24 August 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	SHOOTING RANGE FIRE
24 August 2012	Natural	21 acres	Nebraska National Forest	CROOKED CREEK

Every fire recorded in Jackson 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 01000275 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Jackson County	All 7 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.