William Andre House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.

From the record

“The William Andre House, sometimes simply the Andre House, is a historic house located at 31256 452nd Avenue in rural Clay County, South Dakota, near Gayville. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.”
Wikipedia article William Andre House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 44 National Register listings published here for Clay County · listed in 2002 · 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.
Listed as. Andre, William, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 31256 452nd Ave., Gayville, 57031
When was it listed? October 2002
Category. building
Township. Meckling township
National Register reference number. 02001284 - 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

18 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of William Andre House between 2002 and 2020, burning about 44 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	13
Debris and open burning	2
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Smoking	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
8 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	MISSING TIRE
9 August 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	MEDIAN I
29 August 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	ROUND LAKE FIRE
1 August 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
28 July 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Vermillion Volunteer Fire Department	EMMICK
25 May 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	SMOKING BUTT
18 May 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	454TH
13 May 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	UNAUTHORIZED BURN

Every fire recorded in Clay 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

3 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Calle Nissen Johnsen Farm	2.5 miles	1999
Jens N. and Anna Junker Farmstead	3.2 miles	1988
Lincoln School #12	4.6 miles	2000

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 02001284 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
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.