Richards Cabins

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.

From the record

One of 19 National Register listings published here for Perkins County · listed in 2003 · category: Building.

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

The listing

Address. 16901 Moreau R Rd., Faith, 57626
When was it listed? February 2003
Category. building
Township. Beck-Highland township
National Register reference number. 02001769 - 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 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Richards Cabins between 1999 and 2012, burning about 4,206 acres in total. 4 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
Natural	4
Equipment and vehicle use	2
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
22 August 1999	Natural	40 acres	Prairie City Volunteer Fire Department	BLAIR BROS
6 July 2004	Equipment and vehicle use	6.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
5 July 2000	Natural	150 acres	Prairie City Volunteer Fire Department	FRANK GABRIEL
12 July 2006	Natural	250 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
12 July 2006	Natural	20 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
15 June 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	40 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	HAY GROUND GONE
5 October 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3,700 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	BLOMBERG

Every fire recorded in Perkins 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 02001769 in Record Group 79.
Perkins County	All 19 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.