BlockFrom the record
One of 57 National Register listings published here for Lawrence County · listed in 2011 · category: District.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Hardy Guard Station
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011.
The listing
- Address. 22107 US 85, Lead, 57754
- When was it listed? October 2011
- Category. district
- Unorganized territory. South Lawrence
- National Register reference number. 11000746 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.
Fires near this property
58 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 58 fires within 5 miles of Hardy Guard Station between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,518 acres in total. 45 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 45 |
| Debris and open burning | 6 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 2004 | Natural | under an acre | Black Hills National Forest | RIFLEPIT |
| 5 September 2016 | Natural | under an acre | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | DEER SPRING |
| 5 September 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Wyoming State Forestry | not named |
| 5 September 1995 | Natural | under an acre | Black Hills National Forest | RESISTOL |
| 4 September 2002 | Natural | under an acre | Black Hills National Forest | STATE LINE |
| 30 September 2005 | Natural | under an acre | Black Hills National Forest | STOVEHOLE |
| 30 September 2005 | Natural | under an acre | Black Hills National Forest | PIT |
| 18 September 2005 | Natural | 5.5 acres | Black Hills National Forest | STANTON |
Mines and quarries near this property
3 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Hardy Guard Station: 3 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gypsum-Anhydrite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
Storms near this property
56 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lead, the town this property stands in, in 56 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 45 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 4 flash flood, 1 lightning. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2010 | Hail | Lead | $300,000 | Golf ball sized hail damaged automobiles and buildings in Lead. |
| July 2019 | Flash Flood | Lead | $297,000 | Flash flooding occurred along Bear Butte Creek in Boulder Canyon near the Boulder Canyon Golf Club. A landslide occurred on Galena Road and culverts were blocked by water and debris. Ruby Flats Road and Englewood Road were flooded, as well as a portion of Two Bit Road and Yellow Creek Road. |
| July 2004 | Flash Flood | Lead | $250,000 | no account filed |
| July 2000 | Lightning | Lead | $5,000 | Lightning struck a cable that supplies power to one of the mine shafts at the Homestake Mining Co. This caused problems with the shaft elevator, the compressor and milling operations. There were people at the bottom of the mine who were not able to exit through the shaft. Instead they took mining tractors through the mining tunnels to another shaft and exited there. |
| September 2013 | Hail | Lead | $2,000 | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lead | $1,000 | A shed was blown over and damaged. |
| May 1993 | Hail | Lead | $500 | no account filed |
| May 2025 | Hail | Lead | - | Public reported quarter size hail. |
| July 2019 | Flood | Lead | - | Flooding continued across the area from heavy rainfall. Runoff from additional rainfall during the afternoon and evening of July 5 kept creek levels high into the morning hours on July 6. |
| June 2018 | Hail | Lead | - | Hail to the size of baseballs caused significant property damage in Lead. |
| June 2015 | Hail | Lead | - | Wind gusts to 50 mph also accompanied the storm. |
| August 2008 | Hail | Lead | - | A few automobiles were damaged by large hailstones. |
| June 1999 | Hail | Lead | - | 15,000 flowering plants were destroyed in downtown Lead. A restaurant had one corner of its roof damaged. |
| July 1997 | Hail | Lead | - | Golfball size hail was reported at Deer Mountain. |
| July 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lead | - | no account filed |
| June 2023 | Hail | Lead | - | no account filed |
| April 2022 | Hail | Lead | - | no account filed |
| May 2022 | Hail | Lead | - | no account filed |
| June 2022 | Hail | Lead | - | no account filed |
| July 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lead | - | no account filed |
| May 2020 | Hail | Lead | - | no account filed |
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lead | - | no account filed |
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lead | - | no account filed |
| June 2019 | Hail | Lead | - | no account filed |
| July 2019 | Hail | Lead | - | no account filed |
| July 2019 | Hail | Lead | - | no account filed |
| July 2019 | Hail | Lead | - | no account filed |
| June 2018 | Hail | Lead | - | no account filed |
| May 2016 | Hail | Lead | - | no account filed |
| July 2013 | Hail | Lead | - | no account filed |
| August 2013 | Hail | Lead | - | no account filed |
| September 2013 | Hail | Lead | - | no account filed |
| September 2013 | Hail | Lead | - | no account filed |
| September 2013 | Hail | Lead | - | no account filed |
| August 2013 | Hail | Lead | - | no account filed |
| July 2012 | Hail | Lead | - | no account filed |
| July 2012 | Hail | Lead | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | Lead | - | no account filed |
| June 2010 | Hail | Lead | - | no account filed |
| July 2008 | Hail | Lead | - | no account filed |
| August 2008 | Hail | Lead | - | no account filed |
| August 2005 | Hail | Lead | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Lead | - | no account filed |
| August 2002 | Hail | Lead | - | no account filed |
| August 2001 | Hail | Lead | - | no account filed |
| July 2001 | Hail | Lead | - | no account filed |
| May 2000 | Hail | Lead | - | no account filed |
| August 1999 | Hail | Lead | - | no account filed |
| May 1999 | Hail | Lead | - | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Hail | Lead | - | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Hail | Lead | - | no account filed |
| July 1997 | Flash Flood | Lead | - | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Flash Flood | Lead | - | no account filed |
| September 1996 | Hail | Lead | - | no account filed |
| August 1996 | Hail | Lead | - | no account filed |
| August 1996 | Hail | Lead | - | 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.
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 11000746 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.