Ulrickson Barn

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.

From the record

One of 27 National Register listings published here for Lincoln County · listed in 2005 · category: Building.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. SD 11 29350, Hudson, 57034
When was it listed? August 2005
Category. building
Township. Norway township
National Register reference number. 05000946 - 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

31 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 31 fires within 5 miles of Ulrickson Barn between 1999 and 2020, burning about 254 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 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	17
Debris and open burning	8
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Natural	1
Arson/incendiarism	1
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
29 September 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	STEEL
13 September 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Alcester Volunteer Fire Department	SUB STATION
11 September 2000	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Canton Volunteer Fire Department	DENNY GARDNER
24 August 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	SORUM FIRE
2 August 1999	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Mound City Volunteer Fire Department	COUNTY YARD
8 July 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	KUIPER
16 July 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	HWY 11
15 July 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	HALVORSEN

Every fire recorded in Lincoln County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Ulrickson Barn: 1 past producer. 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 Pits	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Lincoln County

Storms near this property

33 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hudson, the town this property stands in, in 33 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 13 hail, 11 flood, 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 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
April 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Hudson	$30,000	Thunderstorm winds destroyed an empty barn and damaged a silo.
June 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Hudson	$15,000	Thunderstorm winds blew the roof off a shed, and blew down power lines at a cattle ranch.
September 2019	Flood	Hudson	$10,000	After excessive two-day rainfall during September 10-12 (7.81 inches at Dell Rapids, generally 3 to 4 inches around Sioux Falls, 4.72 inches at Canton), the Big Sioux River at Fairview (gage site FVWS2) reached the highest stage on record of 11.14 feet above flood stage on September 14. Significant amounts of the agricultural flood plain were inundated.
July 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Hudson	$10,000	Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including several trees blown down. Several homes and other buildings were damaged by tree debris. The winds also blew down power lines, resulting in power outages.
July 2003	Lightning	Hudson	$5,000	Lightning struck a house, starting a small fire.
July 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Hudson	-	Widespread tree and structural roof damage was reported across the town of Hudson, including the roof being ripped off a large outbuilding, two additional roofs being torn off outbuildings on the south-end of town, and damage to a large grain silo.
March 2020	Flood	Hudson	-	With rainfall of 1.51 inches at Canton and which averaged 1.00 to 1.50 inches around Sioux Falls, the Big Sioux River at Fairview (gage site FVWS2) rose to minor flood briefly late month. The river crested at 0.51 feet above flood stage on March 30, resulting in minor flooding of crop and pasture land.
June 2019	Flood	Hudson	-	A continuation of flooding from May, the Big Sioux River at Fairview (gage site FVWS2) began the month at 5.26 feet above flood stage. Significant amounts of agricultural land remained flooded, and further impeded spring planting.
July 2019	Flood	Hudson	-	The Big Sioux River at Fairview (gage site FVWS2) crested 0.17 feet above flood stage on July 10, causing flooding of crop and pasture land.
July 2019	Flood	Hudson	-	The Big Sioux River at Fairview (gage site FVWS2) crested 1.70 feet above flood stage on July 18, impacting mainly crop and pasture land.
March 2019	Flood	Hudson	-	Snow melt and heavy rainfall (measured 1.75 inches at Canton and 2.19 inches near Harrisburg) resulted in extensive flooding of agricultural land in the flood plain. The Big Sioux River at Fairview (gage site FVWS2) reached the highest crest on record at 10.63 feet above flood stage on March 15. The river remained in minor flood stage at the end of the month.
July 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Hudson	-	Numerous large tree limbs snapped.
May 2019	Flood	Hudson	-	This is a continuation of flooding from April. The Big Sioux River at Fairview (gage site FVWS2) remained in flood through the month other than a brief period from May 18-22. Late month rains pushed the river to a crest at 5.91 feet above flood stage on May 30, the third highest stage on record. Significant agricultural flooding persisted, with no opportunity for spring planting throughout the flood plain. The river remained at minor flood stage at the end of the month.
April 2019	Flood	Hudson	-	Runoff from occasional precipitation in late March and April maintained significant flooding of agricultural and pasture lands near the Big Sioux River. The Big Sioux River at Fairview (gage site FVWS2) crested at 5.38 feet above flood stage on April 9. Minor flooding continued at the end of the month.
September 2018	Flood	Hudson	-	Rainfall across the Sioux Falls area and southward in the Big Sioux basin from September 18-20 totaled generally 5 to 7 inches. Moderate flooding resulted with all crop and pasture land in the half-mile wide flood plain inundated as the Big Sioux River at Fairview (gage site FVWS2) crested 6.7 feet above flood stage on September 22.
October 2018	Flood	Hudson	-	A steady moderate rainfall during October 9-10 - resulting in 1.50 to 2.00 inches of rainfall - produced yet another period of minor flooding of crop and pasture land as the Big Sioux River at Fairview (gage site FVWS2) crested 1.3 feet above flood stage on October 12.
June 2003	Flash Flood	Hudson	-	Heavy rain caused flooding of roads, including South Dakota Highway 11. Cropland and other low areas were also flooded.
May 2000	Tornado (F0)	Hudson	-	A bried tornado caused no reported damage.
July 1997	Tornado (F0)	Hudson	-	A brief tornado observed by a local spotter resulted in no reported damage.
April 2025	Hail	Hudson	-	no account filed
July 2023	Hail	Hudson	-	no account filed
October 2020	Hail	Hudson	-	no account filed
May 2012	Hail	Hudson	-	no account filed
September 2010	Hail	Hudson	-	no account filed
July 2009	Hail	Hudson	-	no account filed
July 2009	Hail	Hudson	-	no account filed
July 2008	Hail	Hudson	-	no account filed
September 2007	Hail	Hudson	-	no account filed
April 2006	Flood	Hudson	-	no account filed
March 2004	Hail	Hudson	-	no account filed
June 2002	Hail	Hudson	-	no account filed
June 2001	Hail	Hudson	-	no account filed
June 2001	Hail	Hudson	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lincoln 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
Norway Center Store	0.7 miles	2003
Peder and Helga Tuntland Farmstead	2.8 miles	1994
Mathias Schmid Farm	5.3 miles	2004

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 05000946 in Record Group 79.
Lincoln County	All 27 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.