Joseph Reynolds Ranch Yard and Stage Stop

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2022.

From the record

One of 59 National Register listings published here for Pennington County · listed in 2022 · category: District.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Listed as. Reynolds, Joseph, Ranch Yard and Stage Stop - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 22875 South Rochford Rd., Rochford, 57745
When was it listed? November 2022
Category. district
Unorganized territory. West Pennington
National Register reference number. 100008362 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

74 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 74 fires within 5 miles of Joseph Reynolds Ranch Yard and Stage Stop between 1992 and 2017, burning about 4,697 acres in total. 37 started naturally. None 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
Natural	37
Recreation and ceremony	23
Debris and open burning	11
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
5 September 2000	Natural	2.0 acres	Black Hills National Forest	FLAG MOUNTAIN
5 September 2000	Natural	under an acre	Black Hills National Forest	COYOTE 1
5 September 1995	Natural	under an acre	Black Hills National Forest	CASTLE
4 September 2016	Natural	under an acre	Black Hills National Forest	WHITE
4 September 2016	Natural	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	WHITE 2
3 September 2017	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Black Hills National Forest	BLACK FOX
3 September 2001	Natural	under an acre	Black Hills National Forest	FOX FLATS
15 September 1995	Natural	under an acre	Black Hills National Forest	WHITE

Every fire recorded in Pennington County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 37 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 37 workings within 5 miles of Joseph Reynolds Ranch Yard and Stage Stop: 24 past producers, 7 occurrences, 5 prospects, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Gold, Gold, Silver, Silver. 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	Recorded
Black Hills Copper Company Mine	Gold, Silver, Copper	Past Producer
Manke Claim	Feldspar	Past Producer
Bee Mine	Copper, Silver, Gold	Past Producer	1886
Copper Cliff Company Mine	Copper	Prospect
Gopher Lode	Copper, Silver, Gold	Prospect
Carbon King	Graphite	Prospect
Carbon King Group	Graphite	Occurrence	Vein
Copper Cliff Mine	Graphite	Past Producer	Graphite
Divide & Ridge Mercedes Group	Silver, Gold	Occurrence	Gold, Silver
G & H Group	Graphite	Occurrence	Vein

Every working recorded in Pennington County

Storms near this property

40 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rochford, the town this property stands in, in 40 storm reports between 1993 and 2023: 30 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 lightning, 2 flash flood. The reports record 1 injury. 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 1998	Lightning	Rochford	1 hurt	A VOL. FIREMAN ACTING AS A STORM SPOTTER, WAS STRUCK BY LIGHTNING; SUFFERING SUSTAINING MAJOR INTERNAL INJURIES.
July 2008	Flash Flood	Rochford	$60,000	The river gage on Rapid Creek at Silver City above Pactola Reservoir reached 9.6 feet, the second highest stage ever recorded.
July 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Rochford	-	Trees were snapped and uprooted.
July 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Rochford	-	Wind gusts were estimated at 60 mph.
July 2019	Tornado (EF1)	Rochford	-	A short-lived tornado damaged trees southwest of Black Fox Campground.
May 2018	Hail	Rochford	-	Hail to golf ball size covered the ground.
May 2018	Flash Flood	Rochford	-	The South Fork Rapid Creek was out of its banks approximately three to six miles west-northwest of Rochford. Several fields were covered with deep hail and water.
July 2007	Hail	Rochford	-	Hail to the size of golf balls fell for nearly an hour and covered the ground several inches deep.
July 2023	Hail	Rochford	-	no account filed
July 2023	Hail	Rochford	-	no account filed
August 2020	Hail	Rochford	-	no account filed
June 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Rochford	-	no account filed
July 2019	Hail	Rochford	-	no account filed
May 2018	Hail	Rochford	-	no account filed
May 2018	Hail	Rochford	-	no account filed
June 2014	Hail	Rochford	-	no account filed
July 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Rochford	-	no account filed
August 2013	Hail	Rochford	-	no account filed
July 2011	Hail	Rochford	-	no account filed
June 2011	Hail	Rochford	-	no account filed
June 2008	Hail	Rochford	-	no account filed
June 2008	Hail	Rochford	-	no account filed
July 2008	Flood	Rochford	-	no account filed
August 2007	Hail	Rochford	-	no account filed
July 2005	Hail	Rochford	-	no account filed
August 2002	Hail	Rochford	-	no account filed
July 2001	Lightning	Rochford	-	no account filed
August 2001	Hail	Rochford	-	no account filed
June 2000	Hail	Rochford	-	no account filed
June 2000	Hail	Rochford	-	no account filed
July 2000	Hail	Rochford	-	no account filed
August 2000	Hail	Rochford	-	no account filed
June 1999	Hail	Rochford	-	no account filed
July 1998	Hail	Rochford	-	no account filed
August 1997	Hail	Rochford	-	no account filed
August 1996	Hail	Rochford	-	no account filed
September 1996	Hail	Rochford	-	no account filed
September 1996	Hail	Rochford	-	no account filed
May 1993	Hail	Rochford	-	no account filed
August 1993	Hail	Rochford	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Pennington 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100008362 in Record Group 79.
Pennington County	All 59 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.