Wek Farmstead

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.

From the record

One of 29 National Register listings published here for Turner County · listed in 2004 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. 44227 288th St., Freeman, 57029
When was it listed? January 2004
Category. district
Township. Salem township
National Register reference number. 03001535 - 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

11 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Wek Farmstead between 1999 and 2020, burning about 284 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	8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3

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
12 April 2003	Debris and open burning	15 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
28 March 2003	Debris and open burning	10 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
25 March 2003	Debris and open burning	20 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
24 March 2003	Debris and open burning	80 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	CHRISTIAN CAMP FIRE
22 March 2007	Debris and open burning	50 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
21 March 1999	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Viborg Volunteer Fire Department	MIKE WURTZ
5 October 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	43 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	HANGING POST
5 October 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	MERIDIAN

Every fire recorded in Turner 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
Salem Township Bridge Number E-1	4.5 miles	2000
South Dakota Department of Transportation Bridge No. 63-016-150	5.1 miles	1999
Spring Valley Township Bridge No. E-31	5.4 miles	1999

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 03001535 in Record Group 79.
Turner County	All 29 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.