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One of 57 National Register listings published here for Lawrence County · listed in 2022 · category: District.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Patterson Homestead
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2022.
The listing
- Address. 12445 Misty Meadows Rd., Nemo, 57759
- When was it listed? November 2022
- Category. district
- Unorganized territory. South Lawrence
- National Register reference number. 100008361 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
93 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 93 fires within 5 miles of Patterson Homestead between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,642 acres in total. 31 started naturally. 6 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 | 31 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 23 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 12 |
| Debris and open burning | 11 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 6 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 5 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2019 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Black Hills National Forest | LOST FIRE |
| 9 September 2010 | Natural | under an acre | Black Hills National Forest | STEAMBOAT |
| 8 September 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Black Hills National Forest | GIMLET |
| 4 September 2011 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Black Hills National Forest | KILLOERN |
| 4 September 2001 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | HAVEN |
| 3 September 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Black Hills National Forest | DIAMOND DALE |
| 29 September 2004 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | not named |
| 20 September 1994 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Black Hills National Forest | STEAMBOAT #3 |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Patterson Homestead: 5 past producers, 3 occurrences, 1 prospect, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Silver, Gold, Lead, Gold, Silver. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alexander Lode | Gold, Antimony, Lead, Silver | Occurrence | Vein | |
| Ama Queen Mine | Silver, Gold | Occurrence | Gold, Silver | |
| Cf&I Pit | Iron | Producer | ||
| Calabogia | Silver, Lead | Prospect | ||
| Calabogia Mine | Silver, Lead | Past Producer | Vein | |
| Lucky Strike | Gold, Silver | Past Producer | Placer | |
| Safe Investment Mine | Gold, Silver | Occurrence | Replacement | |
| Ama Queen | Gold, Silver | Past Producer | ||
| Lucky Strike | Gold, Silver | Past Producer | ||
| Safe Investment | Gold, Silver | Past Producer |
Storms near this property
60 of 81 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Nemo, the town this property stands in, in 81 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 75 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2019 | Flash Flood | Nemo | $200,000 | Runoff from heavy rain destroyed several camping sites at the Boxelder Forks Campground and washed out Forest Service Road 140, Butcher Gulch Road/Forest Service Road 172, and Boxelder Creek Road in multiple locations. |
| July 2012 | Hail | Nemo | $5,000 | no account filed |
| August 2025 | Hail | Nemo | - | Public submitted report. |
| September 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Nemo | - | Wind gusts were estimated at 60 mph. |
| July 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Nemo | - | Wind gusts were estimated at 60 mph. |
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Nemo | - | Wind gusts were estimated at 60 mph. |
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Nemo | - | The spotter estimated wind gusts at 60 mph and reported small hail covering the ground. |
| August 2012 | Hail | Nemo | - | Quarter sized hail covered the ground. |
| June 2008 | Hail | Nemo | - | Penny to quarter sized hail fell for ten minutes. |
| August 1999 | Hail | Nemo | - | Hail was in drifted up to a foot deep along portions of Highway 385. |
| April 2025 | Hail | Nemo | - | no account filed |
| August 2024 | Hail | Nemo | - | no account filed |
| May 2023 | Hail | Nemo | - | no account filed |
| July 2023 | Hail | Nemo | - | no account filed |
| August 2023 | Hail | Nemo | - | no account filed |
| July 2022 | Hail | Nemo | - | no account filed |
| July 2022 | Hail | Nemo | - | no account filed |
| July 2021 | Hail | Nemo | - | no account filed |
| August 2021 | Hail | Nemo | - | no account filed |
| July 2020 | Hail | Nemo | - | no account filed |
| August 2020 | Hail | Nemo | - | no account filed |
| June 2020 | Hail | Nemo | - | no account filed |
| June 2020 | Hail | Nemo | - | no account filed |
| June 2020 | Hail | Nemo | - | no account filed |
| June 2019 | Hail | Nemo | - | no account filed |
| June 2019 | Hail | Nemo | - | no account filed |
| June 2019 | Hail | Nemo | - | no account filed |
| June 2019 | Hail | Nemo | - | no account filed |
| July 2019 | Hail | Nemo | - | no account filed |
| September 2018 | Hail | Nemo | - | no account filed |
| June 2018 | Hail | Nemo | - | no account filed |
| June 2018 | Hail | Nemo | - | no account filed |
| June 2018 | Hail | Nemo | - | no account filed |
| June 2018 | Hail | Nemo | - | no account filed |
| July 2018 | Hail | Nemo | - | no account filed |
| July 2018 | Hail | Nemo | - | no account filed |
| August 2017 | Hail | Nemo | - | no account filed |
| August 2017 | Hail | Nemo | - | no account filed |
| August 2017 | Hail | Nemo | - | no account filed |
| August 2016 | Hail | Nemo | - | no account filed |
| August 2016 | Hail | Nemo | - | no account filed |
| August 2016 | Hail | Nemo | - | no account filed |
| August 2016 | Hail | Nemo | - | no account filed |
| July 2016 | Hail | Nemo | - | no account filed |
| August 2014 | Hail | Nemo | - | no account filed |
| June 2014 | Hail | Nemo | - | no account filed |
| June 2014 | Hail | Nemo | - | no account filed |
| May 2014 | Hail | Nemo | - | no account filed |
| May 2014 | Hail | Nemo | - | no account filed |
| June 2014 | Hail | Nemo | - | no account filed |
| September 2013 | Hail | Nemo | - | no account filed |
| May 2012 | Hail | Nemo | - | no account filed |
| June 2012 | Hail | Nemo | - | no account filed |
| July 2012 | Hail | Nemo | - | no account filed |
| July 2012 | Hail | Nemo | - | no account filed |
| August 2012 | Hail | Nemo | - | no account filed |
| July 2011 | Hail | Nemo | - | no account filed |
| July 2011 | Hail | Nemo | - | no account filed |
| July 2011 | Hail | Nemo | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | Nemo | - | 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
1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| John Hill Ranch-Keltomaki | 8.0 miles | 1985 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100008361 in Record Group 79. |
| Lawrence County | All 57 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.