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Herman Friewald Barn

Built in 1910. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.

From the record

One of 15 National Register listings published here for Grant County · listed in 2008 · category: Building · built in 1910.

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, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Friewald, Herman, Barn - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 48603 148th St., Big Stone City, 57216
When was it listed? February 2008
Category. building
Township. Big Stone township
When was it built? 1910
National Register reference number. 08000045 - 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 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Herman Friewald Barn between 1993 and 2020, burning about 530 acres in total. 2 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	5
Debris and open burning	3
Natural	2
Arson/incendiarism	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
30 September 1993	Debris and open burning	19 acres	Big Stone National Wildlife Refuge	DIMBERG-WF
2 September 2015	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Big Stone National Wildlife Refuge	BALER
15 September 2006	Natural	2.0 acres	Big Stone National Wildlife Refuge	KOCH
29 July 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	9.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	I90-346
11 May 2004	Natural	354 acres	Big Stone National Wildlife Refuge	SELLIN
12 April 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	TIRE FIRE
10 April 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	14 acres	Big Stone National Wildlife Refuge	STREI
1 April 2015	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Big Stone National Wildlife Refuge	GRAHAM

Every fire recorded in Grant County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 15 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of Herman Friewald Barn: 10 producers, 5 past producers. 10 still produce. What was taken out: Granite, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Agate Quarry	Granite, Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Big Stone Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Big Tom Hill Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Carnelian No 1 Quarry	Granite	Producer
Cold Spring Granite Co Quarry	Granite	Producer
Columbia Granite Quarry	Granite	Producer
D G Kaddez and Co Quarry	Granite	Past Producer
Dakota Granite Co Quarry North	Granite	Producer
Dakota Granite Co South Quarry	Granite	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Grant County

Storms near this property

18 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Big Stone City, the town this property stands in, in 18 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 9 thunderstorm wind, 8 hail, 1 flood. 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 2023	Flood	Big Stone City	-	The Whetstone River gauge above Big Stone City recorded a peak of 19.65 feet on April 13th, which is just below major flood stage.
May 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Big Stone City	-	The roof of a Big Stone City business was blown off, and parts of it ended up in a tree about 360 feet to the north by estimated 80 mph winds.
August 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Big Stone City	-	Estimated sixty mph winds brought down several large tree limbs.
June 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Big Stone City	-	An estimated 100 mph winds destroyed two garages with flying debris damaging a house northeast of the garages in Big Stone City. Extensive tree damage occurred in town with trees down and along with many branches. The main structural damage in town was shingle damage and windows blown in that were facing the wind. Some metal siding was blown off the cheese factory on the northwest side of town with the roof of a towing/repair business across the road sustaining roof damage.
May 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Big Stone City	-	no account filed
July 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Big Stone City	-	no account filed
August 2025	Hail	Big Stone City	-	no account filed
August 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Big Stone City	-	no account filed
May 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Big Stone City	-	no account filed
August 2021	Hail	Big Stone City	-	no account filed
August 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Big Stone City	-	no account filed
August 2010	Hail	Big Stone City	-	no account filed
August 2010	Hail	Big Stone City	-	no account filed
August 2010	Hail	Big Stone City	-	no account filed
June 2007	Hail	Big Stone City	-	no account filed
May 2006	Hail	Big Stone City	-	no account filed
August 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Big Stone City	-	no account filed
August 1996	Hail	Big Stone City	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Grant 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

4 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
Big Stone City Hall	3.7 miles	2004
James A. and Ida Bell Gold House	3.9 miles	2008
Hollands Grist Mill	7.2 miles	1981
First Congregational Church of Milbank	7.6 miles	1978

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 08000045 in Record Group 79.
Grant County	All 15 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.