Hultgren Farm

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.

From the record

One of 16 National Register listings published here for Union County · listed in 2004 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. 17953 309th St., Big Springs, 51001
When was it listed? January 2004
Category. district
Township. Sioux Valley township
National Register reference number. 03001536 - 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

28 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 28 fires within 5 miles of Hultgren Farm between 1998 and 2020, burning about 252 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	13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	12
Smoking	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
24 September 1999	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Alcester Volunteer Fire Department	LEAFSTEAD
21 August 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	DUNHAM FIRE
20 July 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	BIG SPRINGS DITCH 2
20 July 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	BIG SPRINGS DITCH
2 July 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	407 AND 247
2 July 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	TREIBER FIRE
2 May 2000	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Alcester Volunteer Fire Department	ART S.
4 April 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	ROMMEREIM PASTURE

Every fire recorded in Union County

Mines and quarries near this property

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Hultgren Farm: 4 past producers, 1 producer. 1 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Chatsworth Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Sioux-Shoemaker Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
W Strobehn	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Union County

Storms near this property

1 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Big Springs, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 1994: 1 tornado. The reports record 1 injury. 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
July 1994	Tornado (F0)	Big Springs	1 hurt, $50,000	The tornado destroyed a mobile home and damaged some trees and vehicles.

Every storm recorded in Union 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

5 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
United Brethren Church	4.3 miles	2001
Baker House	4.5 miles	1979
Swanson House	5.0 miles	2006
Nora Store	5.3 miles	2007
Star School District 61	6.9 miles	2008

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 03001536 in Record Group 79.
Union 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.
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.