BlockFrom the record
One of 44 National Register listings published here for Clay County · listed in 2002 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Daniel A. Messler Homestead
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.
The listing
- Listed as. Messler, Daniel A., Homestead - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
- Address. 30337 Greenfield Rd., Bersford, 57004
- When was it listed? February 2002
- Category. building
- Township. Garfield township
- National Register reference number. 02000022 - 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
3 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Daniel A. Messler Homestead between 2000 and 2017, burning about 13 acres in total. None 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 | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 April 2000 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Alcester Volunteer Fire Department | WEST INTERSTATE |
| 2 November 2009 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | not named |
| 15 January 2017 | Recreation and ceremony | 3.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | SOLEM |
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
4 within 8 milesOther 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Garfield Township Hall | 2.9 miles | 2004 |
| Anderson Homestead | 3.0 miles | 1978 | |
| South Dakota Department of Transportation Bridge No. 14-090-042 | 7.0 miles | 2000 | |
| Yusten House | 7.2 miles | 2007 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 02000022 in Record Group 79. |
| Clay County | All 44 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.