Wientjes Barn and Ranch Yard

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013.

From the record

“The Wientjes Barn and Ranch Yard are a historic farm property in rural Campbell County, South Dakota. It consists of a barn and ranch yard located amid other farm buildings near the junction of 299th Avenue and 117th Street, west-southwest of Mound City.”
Wikipedia article Wientjes Barn and Ranch Yard, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 2 National Register listings published here for Campbell County · listed in 2013 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building, 1 site as contributing to the listing.
Address. 11703 299th Ave., Mound City, 57632
When was it listed? July 2013
Category. building
Unorganized territory. South Campbell
National Register reference number. 13000572 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

13 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Wientjes Barn and Ranch Yard between 1998 and 2010, burning about 63 acres in total. 4 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	4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Debris and open burning	2
Other causes	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
8 August 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	20 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
12 August 2010	Natural	under an acre	Standing Rock Agency	BAD DIRECTION
11 August 2002	Natural	20 acres	Mound City Volunteer Fire Department	MARTIN MICKELSON
10 August 2006	Natural	1.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
4 July 2002	Natural	under an acre	Mound City Volunteer Fire Department	HAY BALE
13 July 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	2.3 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
12 May 2006	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
30 April 2001	Other causes	5.0 acres	Mound City Volunteer Fire Department	CLAYTON STEIGER

Every fire recorded in Campbell County

Storms near this property

60 of 76 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mound City, the town this property stands in, in 76 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 43 hail, 23 thunderstorm wind, 4 tornado, 4 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
May 2018	Flash Flood	Mound City	$34,000	Heavy rains flooded several areas along Highway 271 in far southeast Campbell county along with many acres of crop and pastureland.
April 2019	Flood	Mound City	$9,700	no account filed
August 2024	Tornado (EFU)	Mound City	-	A tornado touched down roughly 4.5 miles southeast of Mound City, SD in open crop and grassland. Photo and video evidence of the tornado was documented. The track was also noted on high resolution satellite imagery.
August 2024	Tornado (EF2)	Mound City	-	At 7:50 pm CDT, the tornado touched down on the west side of\|South Dakota Highway 1804, just north of 118th St. Within a few minutes of being\|on the ground, it tracked east and crossed South Dakota Highway 1804, tossing\|hay bales in its path. Between 8:00-8:05 pm CDT, the tornado\|continued in a more southeast direction, crossing 118th St and\|encountering an electric transmission line, resulting in the\|collapse of three electrical transmission towers. The tornado\|then continued east-southeast toward 119th St, where it\|encountered a farmstead. At this location, multiple trees were\|broken, snapped, and uprooted. One small shed was lifted, another\|had its walls collapse, and a machine shed had its doors blown\|out. The main house lost windows, and a tractor lost its doors\|facing east and west, although the front and back windshields\|remained intact. Additionally, a trailer was rolled onto the\|road, and other farm implements were destroyed or moved. Between\|8:05-8:10 pm CDT, the tornado would cross to the south of 119th\|St, flipping a haybine to the west and through a fence. The main\|tornadic circulation broadened and tracked east, becoming nearly\|stationary at times as it traversed over cropland between 299th\|and 301st Ave. Many smaller tornadic vortices were\|noted on video accounts during this period. Toward the end of the tornado\|cycle, between roughly 8:15-8:20 pm CDT, it intensified once\|again, becoming narrower and tracking from southwest to\|northeast, crossing 119th St between 301st and 302nd Ave. The\|track was clearly seen through a corn crop before lifting. Around\|this same time, a distinct smaller tornado/vortex damaged a\|farmstead. At this location, a tree was uprooted, a silo was\|dented, and two shop buildings lost roof panels and doors.\|Additionally, a travel trailer was rolled 100 feet across 119th\|St, with debris tossed from north-northeast to south-southwest\|into a cornfield. Two other smaller tornadic circulations were\|also noted in the corn crop just west of the intersection of\|302nd Ave and 119th St.
April 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Mound City	-	The high winds damaged a grain bin and overturned a tractor-trailer.
June 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Mound City	-	The wind was measured by a personal weather station. A steel tank was tipped over at a farm a mile west of Mound City as well.
June 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Mound City	-	The wind was measured by a personal weather station.
June 2021	Tornado (EF0)	Mound City	-	A tornado touched down briefly with no damage reported.
August 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Mound City	-	Sixty mph winds were estimated.
May 2018	Flash Flood	Mound City	-	Water from the Lake Hiddenwood dam break flowed into southeast Campbell county flooding several roads and cropland.
May 2018	Flood	Mound City	-	Flooding from heavy rains continued through the rest of the night and into the next day across southeast Campbell county.
July 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Mound City	-	Seventy mph winds and hail caused some crop damage along with downing some trees.
July 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Mound City	-	Sixty mph winds were estimated.
June 2013	Tornado (EF0)	Mound City	-	A tornado touched down briefly in an open field with no damage reported.
August 2012	Hail	Mound City	-	Ping pong size hail caused minor crop damage.
May 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Mound City	-	Sixty mph winds were estimated near Mound City.
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Mound City	-	Sixty mph winds brought down a cottonwood tree.
August 2008	Hail	Mound City	-	Large hail caused some damage to a vehicle along with some crops.
May 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Mound City	-	Winds of 70 mph or higher caused some damage in and around Mound City. Two large pole barns were destroyed, some homes and businesses were damaged, along with several trees and branches downed. A home had most of the siding torn off of one side. A grain bin was also destroyed.
June 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Mound City	-	Sixty mph winds brought down several tree branches.
July 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Mound City	-	Sixty mph winds blew down many large tree branches.
June 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Mound City	-	Winds gusting to 70 mph in Mound City blew a large tree down and into a trailer home wall. Another fallen branch damaged a Mound City home when it broke through the corner of the dwelling. Mound City was without power for 6 to 7 hours as a result of the storm.
June 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Mound City	-	Winds gusting to 80 mph knocked down some trees south of Mound City.
April 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Mound City	-	no account filed
April 2022	Hail	Mound City	-	no account filed
June 2022	Hail	Mound City	-	no account filed
June 2020	Hail	Mound City	-	no account filed
June 2019	Flood	Mound City	-	no account filed
May 2019	Flood	Mound City	-	no account filed
July 2019	Hail	Mound City	-	no account filed
September 2018	Hail	Mound City	-	no account filed
May 2016	Hail	Mound City	-	no account filed
September 2016	Hail	Mound City	-	no account filed
August 2016	Hail	Mound City	-	no account filed
July 2015	Hail	Mound City	-	no account filed
July 2015	Hail	Mound City	-	no account filed
June 2014	Hail	Mound City	-	no account filed
June 2014	Hail	Mound City	-	no account filed
August 2012	Hail	Mound City	-	no account filed
August 2011	Hail	Mound City	-	no account filed
July 2009	Hail	Mound City	-	no account filed
July 2009	Hail	Mound City	-	no account filed
July 2008	Hail	Mound City	-	no account filed
July 2008	Hail	Mound City	-	no account filed
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Mound City	-	no account filed
June 2008	Hail	Mound City	-	no account filed
June 2008	Hail	Mound City	-	no account filed
June 2008	Hail	Mound City	-	no account filed
August 2008	Hail	Mound City	-	no account filed
August 2008	Hail	Mound City	-	no account filed
August 2008	Hail	Mound City	-	no account filed
May 2007	Hail	Mound City	-	no account filed
June 2007	Hail	Mound City	-	no account filed
October 2007	Hail	Mound City	-	no account filed
June 2007	Hail	Mound City	-	no account filed
June 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Mound City	-	no account filed
August 2006	Hail	Mound City	-	no account filed
July 2005	Hail	Mound City	-	no account filed
July 2005	Hail	Mound City	-	no account filed
May 2004	Hail	Mound City	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Campbell 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 13000572 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Campbell County	All 2 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.
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.