BlockFrom the record
One of 12 National Register listings published here for Roberts County · listed in 2022 · category: Site.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Sisseton Agency Headquarters & Wacipi Grounds
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2022.
The listing
- Address. 45744 BIA Hwy. 706, Agency Village, 57262
- When was it listed? February 2022
- Category. site
- Township. Agency township
- National Register reference number. 100007395 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
74 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 74 fires within 5 miles of Sisseton Agency Headquarters & Wacipi Grounds between 1992 and 2020, burning about 363 acres in total. 6 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 28 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 14 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 8 |
| Natural | 6 |
| Smoking | 5 |
| Fireworks | 5 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Other causes | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 September 2002 | Debris and open burning | 1.5 acres | Sisseton Agency | BLACKSMITH |
| 21 September 2002 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | Sisseton Agency | CRAWVILL3 |
| 20 September 2002 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | Sisseton Agency | CRAWVILL2 |
| 16 September 1998 | Debris and open burning | 2.5 acres | Sisseton Agency | TWOSTAR |
| 11 September 2011 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | Sisseton Agency | OLD DISTRICT |
| 11 September 2011 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | Sisseton Agency | BARKER HILL |
| 5 August 2013 | Natural | under an acre | Sisseton Agency | TREE TRUNK |
| 11 August 2013 | Natural | under an acre | Sisseton Agency | GREEN GRASS |
Mines and quarries near this property
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Sisseton Agency Headquarters & Wacipi Grounds: 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
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
5 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Louis Nigg Barn | 6.5 miles | 2021 | |
 | Andrew and Mary Stavig House | 7.7 miles | 1997 |
 | Roberts County Courthouse | 7.8 miles | 1976 |
| Sisseton School | 7.9 miles | 2020 | |
 | Sisseton Carnegie Library | 8.0 miles | 1996 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100007395 in Record Group 79. |
| Roberts County | All 12 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.