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Java Depot

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.

From the record

“The Java Depot, a combination passenger and freight railway station in Java, South Dakota, was built in 1901 by the Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.”

Wikipedia article Java station (South Dakota), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 10 National Register listings published here for Walworth County · listed in 2001 · category: Building.

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. NW corner of Railway Ave. and Main St., Java, 57452
  • When was it listed? June 2001
  • Category. building
  • Unorganized territory. East Walworth
  • National Register reference number. 01000640 - 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

7 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Java Depot between 2001 and 2018, burning about 401 acres in total. 3 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
Natural3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Other causes1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
22 August 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionDITCH
15 August 2017Naturalunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionHWY 12
18 July 2006Naturalunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named
6 June 2018Naturalunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionSPRING LAKE TREE
3 June 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionCAM WAL
1 May 2001Other causes350 acresMound City Volunteer Fire DepartmentHARLAN KRAUSE
28 March 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined50 acresWalworth CountyGRASS FIRE

Every fire recorded in Walworth County

Storms near this property

43 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Java, the town this property stands in, in 43 storm reports between 1994 and 2020: 28 hail, 8 thunderstorm wind, 4 tornado, 1 flash flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2018Flash FloodJava$3,000,000no account filed
June 1994Thunderstorm WindJava$500A large maple tree was blown down.
March 2019FloodJava-Several roads were flooded in the county.
August 2019HailJava-Golf ball to baseball size hail broke home and vehicle windows.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindJava-Sixty mph winds were estimated.
May 2018Thunderstorm WindJava-Sixty mph winds were estimated.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindJava-Seventy mph winds were estimated.
August 2012HailJava-Hail up to golfball size lasted for ten minutes.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindJava-Sixty mph winds were estimated in Java.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindJava-Many large tree branches were broken off.
May 2010Tornado (EF1)Java-The second tornado touched down eight miles west of Bowdle or two miles south of Highway 12 near State Highway 47. The tornado knocked down six wooden power poles before it lifted. This is consistent with an EF1 rating with winds from 86 to 110 mph.
May 2010Tornado (EF2)Java-The third tornado formed about four miles west of Bowdle on Highway 12. The tornado came down on a farm or formed immediately to the south of the farm. Several outbuildings were severely damaged with the residence sustaining siding and roof damage. A stock trailer was thrown about 75 yards from its initial point. Tree damage was sustained on the west side of the property with fallen trees leaning west. On the east side of the property, debris was scattered to the northeast. The damage on the farm was consistent with an EF2 rating with wind speeds ranging from 111 to 135 mph. The tornado continued moving northeast crossing into western Edmunds county where it intensified to an EF4.
June 2007Tornado (EF0)Java-A tornado touched down briefly in an open field with no damage reported.
June 2007Tornado (EF0)Java-A tornado damaged two pole barns and broke two windows out of two vehicles. Also, some large cottonwood trees were damaged.
June 1998Thunderstorm WindJava-Winds gusting to 70 mph brought many large branches down across Java.
July 2020Funnel CloudJava-no account filed
July 2020HailJava-no account filed
July 2020HailJava-no account filed
June 2020HailJava-no account filed
August 2019HailJava-no account filed
August 2019HailJava-no account filed
June 2018HailJava-no account filed
September 2017HailJava-no account filed
September 2017HailJava-no account filed
August 2016HailJava-no account filed
June 2013HailJava-no account filed
August 2012HailJava-no account filed
August 2012HailJava-no account filed
August 2012HailJava-no account filed
May 2010HailJava-no account filed
June 2009HailJava-no account filed
August 2005HailJava-no account filed
May 2004HailJava-no account filed
May 2004HailJava-no account filed
May 2004HailJava-no account filed
August 2004HailJava-no account filed
August 2003HailJava-no account filed
June 2001HailJava-no account filed
June 2001HailJava-no account filed
August 2000HailJava-no account filed
August 1998Thunderstorm WindJava-no account filed
June 1997HailJava-no account filed
September 1995HailJava-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Walworth 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

2 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 PropertyDistance Listed
Selby Opera House6.4 miles1987
Walworth County Courthouse7.1 miles1999

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 01000640 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Walworth CountyAll 10 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.
  • Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.