Sitting Bull Monument

Built in 1953. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.

From the record

“The Sitting Bull Monument, on Standing Rock Sioux Reservation near Mobridge in Corson County, South Dakota, was built in 1953. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.”
Wikipedia article Sitting Bull Monument, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 4 National Register listings published here for Corson County · listed in 2006 · category: Object · built in 1953.

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 1 object as contributing to the listing.
Address. SE 1/4 of SE 1/4 of Sec 13 T18 R29, Mobridge, 57601
When was it listed? November 2006
Category. object
Township. Ridgeland township
When was it built? 1953
National Register reference number. 06001008 - 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

39 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 39 fires within 5 miles of Sitting Bull Monument between 1994 and 2020, burning about 1,475 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 3 were 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
Equipment and vehicle use	10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	9
Natural	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Fireworks	3
Arson/incendiarism	3
Debris and open burning	2
Recreation and ceremony	2
Smoking	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Other causes	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
7 September 1996	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Standing Rock Agency	GALL INN 2
6 September 1996	Other causes	under an acre	Standing Rock Agency	GALL INN 1
5 September 2001	Power generation/transmission/distribution	1.0 acres	Standing Rock Agency	W GRAND R
27 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	60 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	ROCK
23 September 1996	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Standing Rock Agency	OLIVE OYL
20 September 2015	Power generation/transmission/distribution	25 acres	Standing Rock Agency	BAD WIRE
1 September 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	Standing Rock Agency	COUNTY ROAD 6304
1 September 2020	Natural	27 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	CR6304

Every fire recorded in Corson 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 Sitting Bull Monument: 1 producer. All of them still produce. 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
	Jensen Mill Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Corson 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 06001008 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Corson County	All 4 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.