Edward Morrison House

Built in 1928. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.

From the record

“The Edward Morrison House, at 624 Main St. in Pukwana, South Dakota, was built in 1928. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.”
Wikipedia article Edward Morrison House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 7 National Register listings published here for Brule County · listed in 2005 · category: Building · built in 1928.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Morrison, Edward, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 624 Main St., Pukwana, 57370
When was it listed? August 2005
Category. building
Township. Pukwana township
When was it built? 1928
National Register reference number. 05000945 - 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

19 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Edward Morrison House between 2006 and 2020, burning about 1,118 acres in total. 2 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	14
Natural	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Smoking	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
28 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	670 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	HEALY FIRE
7 August 2006	Smoking	200 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
29 July 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	90 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	GARY FIRE
25 July 2017	Natural	75 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	JIM STEBBINS
17 July 2017	Natural	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	HEALY
12 July 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	DITCH FIRE 2
28 June 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	80 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	PHILLIP LARSON
28 June 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	CAMPER

Every fire recorded in Brule County

Storms near this property

35 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pukwana, the town this property stands in, in 35 storm reports between 2002 and 2024: 26 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 tornado. 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
June 2024	Flash Flood	Pukwana	-	Heavy rain of 2 to 4 inches over a couple hours led to a breach at Healy Dam, where a home was also damaged by flowing water. Panzour and Sharpings Lake Dam were also breached due to excessive runoff. Numerous county roads were inundated by standing and flowing water. For a more comprehensive description of flood damage, please see other entries for areal and river flooding for Brule County.
September 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Pukwana	-	Several 3-4 inch diameter limbs were snapped from trees.
June 2018	Hail	Pukwana	-	Intermittent hail was accompanied by torrential rainfall.
August 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Pukwana	-	Wind gusts occurred at the leading edge of the storm. Hail up to penny size also occurred, followed by heavy rainfall.
August 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Pukwana	-	Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including numerous trees blown down.
July 2010	Tornado (EF0)	Pukwana	-	A brief tornado, captured on video, caused no reported damage.
July 2010	Hail	Pukwana	-	Large hail covered the ground.
August 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Pukwana	-	Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage.
June 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Pukwana	-	Thunderstorm winds caused an unknown amount of tree damage.
April 2007	Hail	Pukwana	-	Large hail up to baseball size damaged vehicles and broke windows. The amount of damage was not known.
April 2007	Hail	Pukwana	-	Large hail damaged vehicles. The amount of damage was not known.
April 2007	Hail	Pukwana	-	Golf ball size hail damaged vehicles and windows.
May 2007	Flash Flood	Pukwana	-	Heavy rains caused flash flooding of numerous roads, fields, low areas, and basements. A vehicle with two occupants was swept off state Highway 50 into a field when the driver attempted to cross a flooded part of the road. The two people escaped uninjured.\|
August 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Pukwana	-	Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including branches at least 2 inches in diameter down.
August 2018	Hail	Pukwana	-	no account filed
June 2017	Hail	Pukwana	-	no account filed
June 2012	Hail	Pukwana	-	no account filed
July 2010	Hail	Pukwana	-	no account filed
July 2010	Hail	Pukwana	-	no account filed
August 2008	Hail	Pukwana	-	no account filed
August 2007	Hail	Pukwana	-	no account filed
April 2007	Hail	Pukwana	-	no account filed
April 2007	Hail	Pukwana	-	no account filed
May 2006	Hail	Pukwana	-	no account filed
September 2006	Hail	Pukwana	-	no account filed
May 2004	Hail	Pukwana	-	no account filed
May 2004	Hail	Pukwana	-	no account filed
May 2004	Hail	Pukwana	-	no account filed
July 2004	Hail	Pukwana	-	no account filed
August 2004	Hail	Pukwana	-	no account filed
June 2003	Hail	Pukwana	-	no account filed
June 2003	Hail	Pukwana	-	no account filed
June 2003	Hail	Pukwana	-	no account filed
August 2002	Hail	Pukwana	-	no account filed
August 2002	Hail	Pukwana	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Brule 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
Ashley Shanty and Privy	5.0 miles	1999
Robert A. Crawford House	7.4 miles	1994
Chamberlain Rest Stop Tipi	8.0 miles	2015

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 05000945 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Brule County	All 7 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.
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.