BlockFrom the record
One of 17 National Register listings published here for Hutchinson County · listed in 2025 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Mettler Cattle Barn
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2025.
The listing
- Address. 616 N. 5th St., Menno, 57045
- When was it listed? June 2025
- Category. building
- Township. Sweet township
- National Register reference number. 100011964 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
23 since 2008Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 23 fires within 5 miles of Mettler Cattle Barn between 2008 and 2018, burning about 227 acres in total. None 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 18 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19 September 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | COUNTY RD |
| 19 September 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 20 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | MAXWELL |
| 29 August 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | DAN ULMER |
| 13 August 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | DITCH |
| 11 August 2009 | Equipment and vehicle use | 5.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | not named |
| 25 July 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | HUTCHINSON COUNTY |
| 10 July 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 40 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | PRESZLER |
| 5 June 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | ULMER |
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 Mettler Cattle Barn: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Buchman Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this property
37 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Menno, the town this property stands in, in 37 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 21 hail, 14 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Menno | $500,000 | Thunderstorm winds caused widespread damage in Menno. Numerous trees including several large trees were uprooted. Numerous homes were damaged, some directly by the wind and others by tree and other debris. Garages were especially hard hit, including at least one garage which was destroyed. A grain elevator was damaged, with a catwalk and conveyor being blown over. An historical post office addition to a log building was destroyed, doors and part of the roof of a flour mill were blown down, and doors were blown off several other buildings. Many homes and other buildings had windows broken and siding damaged. A few small storage buildings were destroyed, and others were damaged or blown over. Several farms were heavily damaged, with machine sheds, at least one hog barn, and several other small structures destroyed. Several vehicles were damaged, including one pickup which was pushed partly onto the porch of a house. Power lines and poles were blown down, resulting in a power outage in Menno. |
| June 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Menno | $100,000 | Thunderstorm winds blew the roof off a tire storage building, blew out several windows, and caused shingle and other roof damage to several structures in Menno. The winds blew down numerous trees, some large. Several vehicles, garages, and roofs were damaged by falling trees and tree debris, including at least 2 vehicles destroyed. The winds blew down power lines, causing a power outage. |
| August 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Menno | $20,000 | Thunderstorm winds caused tree and minor roof damage. |
| May 2000 | Tornado (F0) | Menno | $10,000 | A tornado broke one foot diameter trees, tossed hay bales, and broke a few light poles. |
| June 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Menno | $5,000 | Thunderstorm winds blew down branches and power lines, causing a power outage. |
| August 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Menno | $3,000 | no account filed |
| July 2025 | Hail | Menno | - | A few hailstones up to golf ball size were reported in Menno. |
| June 2025 | Hail | Menno | - | Hail as big as a quarter, but most was pea to nickel size. |
| August 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Menno | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts up to 58 mph were measured by the South Dakota State University mesonet site 7 miles east-southeast of Menno. |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Menno | - | Thunderstorm winds were measured on a personal weather station in Menno. |
| June 2016 | Hail | Menno | - | Large hail was accompanied by damaging winds. |
| June 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Menno | - | Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including several trees blown down. The winds were accompanied by large hail. |
| August 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Menno | - | Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage. The winds were accompanied by penny size hail. |
| August 2015 | Hail | Menno | - | Penny size hail was accompanied by damaging winds. |
| August 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Menno | - | Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including several branches blown down. The winds were accompanied by heavy rain and small hail. |
| August 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Menno | - | Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including several small branches blown down. |
| April 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Menno | - | Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including one tree uprooted. The amount of damage was not known. |
| August 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Menno | - | Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including a large 12 inch diameter limb broken off. The limb just missed damaging a house when it fell. |
| July 2002 | Hail | Menno | - | Large hail and strong winds caused heavy damage to crops. The amount of crop damage was not known. |
| May 2022 | Hail | Menno | - | no account filed |
| August 2017 | Hail | Menno | - | no account filed |
| June 2017 | Hail | Menno | - | no account filed |
| August 2015 | Hail | Menno | - | no account filed |
| June 2009 | Hail | Menno | - | no account filed |
| May 2008 | Hail | Menno | - | no account filed |
| May 2008 | Hail | Menno | - | no account filed |
| May 2007 | Hail | Menno | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Hail | Menno | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Hail | Menno | - | no account filed |
| September 2005 | Hail | Menno | - | no account filed |
| April 2004 | Hail | Menno | - | no account filed |
| July 2004 | Hail | Menno | - | no account filed |
| May 2001 | Hail | Menno | - | no account filed |
| June 2000 | Hail | Menno | - | no account filed |
| May 1999 | Hail | Menno | - | no account filed |
| May 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Menno | - | no account filed |
| September 1997 | Tornado (F0) | Menno | - | 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
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Salem Church Parsonage | 0.5 miles | 2001 | |
| Gottlieb Schmitt House | 0.6 miles | 1986 | |
| Edward Schnaidt House | 0.6 miles | 2001 | |
| J. W. Ulmer House | 0.8 miles | 1982 | |
| Old Maxwell Hutterite Colony | 5.2 miles | 1982 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100011964 in Record Group 79. |
| Hutchinson County | All 17 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.