Fort Meade Veterans Administration Hospital

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2018.

From the record

One of 27 National Register listings published here for Meade County · listed in 2018 · category: District.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. 113 Comanche Rd., Fort Meade, 57785
When was it listed? May 2018
Category. district
Also known as. United States Third Generation Veterans Hospitals, 1946-1958 MPS
Unorganized territory. Southwest Meade
National Register reference number. 100002467 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

120 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 120 fires within 5 miles of Fort Meade Veterans Administration Hospital between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,996 acres in total. 32 started naturally. 2 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
Natural	32
Debris and open burning	29
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	16
Railroad operations and maintenance	10
Recreation and ceremony	8
Equipment and vehicle use	8
Fireworks	6
Misuse of fire by a minor	4
Arson/incendiarism	2
Smoking	2
Other causes	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
8 September 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	REDWATER HILL
28 September 1998	Debris and open burning	25 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	SLY (NC)
25 September 1999	Misuse of fire by a minor	1.0 acres	Sturgis Volunteer Fire Department	BLUCKSBURG
15 September 2000	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Sturgis Volunteer Fire Department	PLEASANT VALLEY
13 September 2005	Natural	under an acre	Black Hills National Forest	VANOCKER
9 August 2003	Natural	under an acre	Montana/Dakotas State Office	SWIMMINGPO
7 August 2020	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	POWERLINE
6 August 2020	Debris and open burning	2.3 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	SLY HILL

Every fire recorded in Meade County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Fort Meade Veterans Administration Hospital: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Niobium (Columbium), Tantalum, 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
	Bruch Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
	Tinton	Niobium (Columbium), Tantalum	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Meade 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

6 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
Fort Meade District	0.1 miles	1973
John and Elsie McMillan House	1.7 miles	2015
John G. Wenke House	1.7 miles	1976
Sturgis Commercial Block	1.8 miles	1975
Stephen and Maria Graf House	2.0 miles	2002
Erskine School	2.0 miles	1984

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100002467 in Record Group 79.
Meade 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.