Lake Badus Rural Agricultural Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.

From the record

One of 16 National Register listings published here for Lake County · listed in 2003 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. Roughly bounded by US 81, Cty Rd. 16, Cty Rd 37, and Cty Rd. 20, Nunda, 57054
When was it listed? June 2003
Category. district
Township. Badus township
National Register reference number. 02001428 - 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

4 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Lake Badus Rural Agricultural Historic District between 1999 and 2009, burning about 7 acres in total. 1 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
Debris and open burning	3
Natural	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
28 July 2009	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
12 July 2006	Natural	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
3 March 2000	Debris and open burning	1.5 acres	Ramona Volunteer Fire Department	CLEMS
15 November 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ramona Volunteer Fire Department	LD'S PASTURE

Every fire recorded in Lake County

Storms near this property

19 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Nunda, the town this property stands in, in 19 storm reports between 1997 and 2023: 9 hail, 7 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 funnel cloud. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
September 2019	Flood	Nunda	$25,000	Significant ponding of water occurred over much of the area around Madison and Chester. Street flooding occured throughout much of Madison. Property damage costs are rough estimates.
July 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Nunda	$5,000	Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage.
May 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Nunda	-	Five large trees were knocked down and a roof blown off of a barn. Crop damage is an estimate from insured losses. Information provided by the United States Department of Agriculture.
May 2015	Funnel Cloud	Nunda	-	A brief funnel cloud was observed.
July 2011	Hail	Nunda	-	Large hail dented a few vehicles and caused crop damage. The amount of property and crop damage was not known.
July 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Nunda	-	Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage.
July 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Nunda	-	Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including numerous small branches blown down.
June 2009	Tornado (EF0)	Nunda	-	A brief tornado caused no reported damage.
September 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Nunda	-	Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including numerous small branches blown down.
June 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Nunda	-	Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including 10 to 12 inch diameter limbs blown down.
June 2001	Hail	Nunda	-	Large hail caused crop damage. The amount of damage was not known, but much of the damaged crops were expected to recover.
July 2023	Hail	Nunda	-	no account filed
June 2022	Hail	Nunda	-	no account filed
June 2016	Hail	Nunda	-	no account filed
July 2010	Hail	Nunda	-	no account filed
April 2005	Hail	Nunda	-	no account filed
April 2005	Hail	Nunda	-	no account filed
July 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Nunda	-	no account filed
July 1997	Hail	Nunda	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lake 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

4 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
St. Ann's Catholic Church of Badus	0.9 miles	1979
St. Williams Catholic Church	4.8 miles	1999
Abraham Hegdahl Farm	5.7 miles	2004
Lake Madison Lutheran Church	7.3 miles	2000

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 02001428 in Record Group 79.
Lake County	All 16 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.