Frank and Sarah Drake Claim House

Built in 1880. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015.

From the record

One of 15 National Register listings published here for Moody County · listed in 2015 · category: Building · built in 1880.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Drake, Frank and Sarah, Claim House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 23982 466th Ave., Chester, 57017
When was it listed? January 2015
Category. building
Township. Lynn township
When was it built? 1880
National Register reference number. 14001184 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

18 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Frank and Sarah Drake Claim House between 1999 and 2017, burning about 235 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
Debris and open burning	7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Fireworks	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
17 September 2008	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
17 September 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
2 August 2001	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Colman Volunteer Fire Department	PAT G.
6 July 2001	Fireworks	2.0 acres	Vermillion Volunteer Fire Department	NISSEN
8 May 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Moody County	HILLER FIRE
7 May 2000	Other causes	2.0 acres	Colman Volunteer Fire Department	GRIMME
10 May 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	CAVINESS
8 April 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	25 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	SOUTH FIRE

Every fire recorded in Moody County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Frank and Sarah Drake Claim House: 2 past producers. 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
	Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
	Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Moody 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 14001184 in Record Group 79.
Moody County	All 15 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.