Jacobson School

Built in 1926. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.

From the record

One of 15 National Register listings published here for Charles Mix County · listed in 2003 · category: Building · built in 1926.

Sources: 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. 289th St., Armour, 57313
When was it listed? February 2003
Category. building
Also known as. Schools in South Dakota MPS
Township. Kennedy township
When was it built? 1926
National Register reference number. 02001762 - 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

20 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Jacobson School between 1999 and 2020, burning about 261 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
Debris and open burning	9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Fireworks	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
9 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	BRUNSING
21 September 1999	Debris and open burning	15 acres	Ravinia Volunteer Fire Department	BILL SPECHT
11 August 2002	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Burke Volunteer Fire Department	MCKENIZE
28 July 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	14 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
29 June 2002	Fireworks	5.0 acres	Yankton Agency	BRYON
3 May 2000	Debris and open burning	6.0 acres	Ravinia Volunteer Fire Department	JEFF VASEK
23 May 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	STATE HWY
15 May 2011	Debris and open burning	80 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	REZEK 11-1

Every fire recorded in Charles Mix 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 02001762 in Record Group 79.
Charles Mix County	All 15 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.