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One of 13 National Register listings published here for Day County · listed in 2020 · category: Building · built in 1915, American Craftsman.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Chilson, Chil and Julia House
Built in 1915 (American Craftsman). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2020.
The listing
- Address. 120 West 8th Ave., Webster, 57274
- When was it listed? April 2020
- Category. building
- City. Webster city
- When was it built? 1915
- Architectural style. American Craftsman
- National Register reference number. 100005112 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
30 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 30 fires within 5 miles of Chilson, Chil and Julia House between 2005 and 2020, burning about 183 acres in total. None 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 | 26 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20 September 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 30 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | CRANDALL HILLS FIRE |
| 19 September 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | PIERPONT MUTUAL AID FIRE |
| 11 September 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | KRIECH FIRE |
| 4 August 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | REETZ FIRE |
| 4 August 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | 429TH AVENUE |
| 4 August 2005 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | not named |
| 27 August 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | DITCH FIRE |
| 24 August 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | HEMMAH FIRE |
Mines and quarries near this property
4 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Chilson, Chil and Julia House: 4 producers. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Donahue Sand & Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Ellington Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Gaikowski Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Lesner Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this property
60 of 68 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Webster, the town this property stands in, in 68 storm reports between 1994 and 2020: 33 hail, 33 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 tornado. The reports record 10 injuries. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Webster | 10 hurt | The lumber yard and cabinet shop in Webster were destroyed. Power lines and poles were downed along with hundreds of trees. A semi was overturned on Highway 12 west of Webster injuring the driver. Several other injuries occurred in Day County as a result of the windstorm. The injuries were minor to moderate with scrapes and abrasions to lower back injuries and a broken collar bone. |
| July 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Webster | - | Estimated seventy mph winds downed several trees in Webster. |
| September 2019 | Tornado (EF0) | Webster | - | A witness observed a tornado touch down over a lake and then track onto a pasture before lifting. No damage occurred. |
| June 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Webster | - | An estimated seventy-five mph wind downed several power lines in Webster. |
| June 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Webster | - | Three power poles were downed by estimated eighty mph winds. |
| June 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Webster | - | Several storage buildings in the lumber yard were rolled with some house windows broken along with several business signs destroyed. |
| July 2015 | Hail | Webster | - | Hail broke out some car windows at the intersection of Highway 12 and County Road 25 causing some injuries. |
| June 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Webster | - | A communications tower came down and landed on a vehicle causing damage. |
| July 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Webster | - | A motor home was tipped over and severely damaged along with many trees downed in Webster. |
| May 2007 | Flash Flood | Webster | - | Heavy rains of up to 3 inches produced flash flooding on several roads around Webster. |
| June 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Webster | - | A wet microburst producing winds of 80 mph or higher took the roof off a house and barn. The barn roof was blown about 300 yards. Also, up to 12-inch diameter tree branches were broken off from several trees. |
| August 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Webster | - | Large branches were downed by the high winds. |
| August 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Webster | - | Large branches were downed in Webster. |
| April 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Webster | - | Thunderstorm winds gusting to near 60 mph blew five foot of the roof off of a house, downed many tree branches, and also blew in the barn doors. |
| July 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Webster | - | Thunderstorm winds knocked down some poles and some powerlines. |
| July 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Webster | - | High winds destroyed a steel bin and broke off some power poles. Also, a storage building was knocked down. |
| July 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Webster | - | Eighty mph winds downed several trees in Webster. A small barn was blown down on the north edge of town. A van at an automobile business sustained body and glass damage when a pontoon boat from the neighboring auto and marine business blew into it. A roof was also blown off a house and deposited in a field. |
| July 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Webster | - | Thunderstorm Winds caused undetermined tree and crop damage. |
| June 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Webster | - | no account filed |
| August 2016 | Hail | Webster | - | no account filed |
| August 2016 | Hail | Webster | - | no account filed |
| August 2016 | Hail | Webster | - | no account filed |
| August 2016 | Hail | Webster | - | no account filed |
| June 2015 | Hail | Webster | - | no account filed |
| June 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Webster | - | no account filed |
| July 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Webster | - | no account filed |
| July 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Webster | - | no account filed |
| April 2006 | Hail | Webster | - | no account filed |
| May 2006 | Hail | Webster | - | no account filed |
| August 2006 | Hail | Webster | - | no account filed |
| August 2006 | Hail | Webster | - | no account filed |
| August 2006 | Hail | Webster | - | no account filed |
| August 2006 | Hail | Webster | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Webster | - | no account filed |
| May 2005 | Hail | Webster | - | no account filed |
| August 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Webster | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Webster | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Webster | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Hail | Webster | - | no account filed |
| June 2003 | Hail | Webster | - | no account filed |
| June 2003 | Hail | Webster | - | no account filed |
| August 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Webster | - | no account filed |
| August 2002 | Hail | Webster | - | no account filed |
| August 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Webster | - | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Hail | Webster | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Webster | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Webster | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Webster | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Webster | - | no account filed |
| July 2000 | Hail | Webster | - | no account filed |
| July 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Webster | - | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Webster | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Webster | - | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Hail | Webster | - | no account filed |
| October 1998 | Hail | Webster | - | no account filed |
| July 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Webster | - | no account filed |
| July 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Webster | - | no account filed |
| August 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Webster | - | no account filed |
| September 1997 | Hail | Webster | - | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Webster | - | no account filed |
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 milesOther 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.
| Photograph | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
 | First National Bank Building | under 500 feet | 2005 |
 | Lars J. Fiksdal House | 0.1 miles | 1995 |
 | Anton and Mary Agnes Karpen House | 0.2 miles | 2008 |
 | John and Kittie Williams House | 0.3 miles | 2008 |
 | William Havens House | 0.5 miles | 1985 |
 | Waddel Mansion | 0.5 miles | 1994 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100005112 in Record Group 79. |
| Day County | All 13 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.