BlockFrom the record
One of 43 National Register listings published here for Codington County · listed in 2003 · category: Building · built in 1917.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Beskow Barn
Built in 1917. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 15689 456th Ave., South Shore, 57263
- When was it listed? October 2003
- Category. building
- Township. Germantown township
- When was it built? 1917
- National Register reference number. 03001072 - 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
9 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Beskow Barn between 1998 and 2018, burning about 35 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 September 2005 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | not named |
| 8 August 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | not named |
| 4 July 2008 | Smoking | under an acre | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | not named |
| 6 May 2018 | Natural | under an acre | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | SSS |
| 29 March 2000 | Equipment and vehicle use | 4.0 acres | Watertown Volunteer Fire Department | WAVERLY |
| 21 March 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | BAUER RANCH |
| 21 November 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 25 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | BUNDE |
| 29 October 1998 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Black Hawk Volunteer Fire Department | MUD HOLE |
Mines and quarries near this property
5 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Beskow Barn: 5 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this property
20 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names South Shore, the town this property stands in, in 20 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 10 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2025 | Flash Flood | South Shore | - | The Codington County Emergency manager reports water has filled the ditches and is up to the bottoms of several bridges on the main highways with water over some secondary roads northeast of Watertown. Photos were also submitted via Facebook of flooded residences in northeast Watertown. |
| June 2023 | Tornado (EF0) | South Shore | - | A photo of the landspout was submitted via social media. |
| September 2021 | Hail | South Shore | - | Hail was large enough to dent vehicles. |
| June 2015 | Hail | South Shore | - | Large hail broke a window and flattened some vegetable plants. |
| July 2011 | Flash Flood | South Shore | - | Heavy rains of over 3 inches brought flash flooding of several roads west of South Shore. |
| July 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | South Shore | - | Damaging thunderstorm winds downed two cottonwood trees and destroyed a fishing dock. |
| July 2023 | Hail | South Shore | - | no account filed |
| May 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | South Shore | - | no account filed |
| July 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | South Shore | - | no account filed |
| May 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | South Shore | - | no account filed |
| April 2019 | Flood | South Shore | - | no account filed |
| August 2016 | Hail | South Shore | - | no account filed |
| July 2015 | Funnel Cloud | South Shore | - | no account filed |
| July 2011 | Hail | South Shore | - | no account filed |
| July 2011 | Hail | South Shore | - | no account filed |
| April 2010 | Hail | South Shore | - | no account filed |
| July 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | South Shore | - | no account filed |
| June 2004 | Hail | South Shore | - | no account filed |
| August 2004 | Hail | South Shore | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Hail | South Shore | - | no account filed |
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 03001072 in Record Group 79. |
| Codington County | All 43 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.
- Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
- 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.