Josef and Marie Kudrna Homestead and Ranch

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015.

From the record

One of 59 National Register listings published here for Pennington County · listed in 2015 · category: District.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Listed as. Kudrna, Josef and Marie, Homestead and Ranch - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 18100 E. SD 44, Scenic, 57780
When was it listed? January 2015
Category. district
Township. Scenic township
National Register reference number. 14001185 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

13 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Josef and Marie Kudrna Homestead and Ranch between 1994 and 2020, burning about 2,584 acres in total. 9 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	9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Equipment and vehicle use	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 2017	Natural	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	1 BALE FIRE
8 August 2006	Natural	14 acres	Badlands National Park	MCGINTY
29 August 2002	Natural	5.0 acres	Badlands National Park	WHITCHER
14 August 2006	Natural	29 acres	Badlands National Park	MONICA
8 July 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Pine Ridge Agency	BEANS
27 July 2006	Natural	1,000 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
26 July 2006	Natural	1,460 acres	Badlands National Park	WITCHER
24 July 2020	Natural	42 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	CONATA

Every fire recorded in Pennington County

Storms near this property

60 of 108 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Scenic, the town this property stands in, in 108 storm reports between 1993 and 2026: 58 thunderstorm wind, 45 hail, 3 funnel cloud, 2 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 1993	Thunderstorm Wind	Scenic	$50,000	Thunderstorm winds blew off portions of a school roof resulting in extensive structural and water damage.
June 2012	Hail	Scenic	$10,000	no account filed
April 2026	Thunderstorm Wind	Scenic	-	SD mesonet recorded wind gust at this location.
April 2026	Thunderstorm Wind	Scenic	-	SDOT submitted wind gust report.
June 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Scenic	-	SD mesonet recorded wind gust.
August 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Scenic	-	SD Mesonet recorded wind gust.
May 2023	Flood	Scenic	-	Minor flooding of agricultural land along the White River occurred.
June 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Scenic	-	The spotter estimated wind gusts around 60 mph.
June 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Scenic	-	The spotter estimated wind gusts at 60 mph.
July 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Scenic	-	Wind gusts were estimated at 60 mph.
July 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Scenic	-	Wind gusts were estimated around 60 mph.
July 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Scenic	-	Wind gusts were estimated at 60 mph.
July 2020	Hail	Scenic	-	Wind gusts were estimated at 50 mph.
June 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Scenic	-	Wind gusts were estimated at 60 mph.
March 2019	Flood	Scenic	-	The peak gage height at the Cheyenne River at Wasta reached a preliminary height of 13.98 feet.
August 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Scenic	-	Wind gusts were estimated at 60 mph.
July 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Scenic	-	Wind gusts were estimated at 70 mph.
July 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Scenic	-	Wind gusts were estimated at 60 mph.
September 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Scenic	-	Wind gusts were estimated at 60 mph.
August 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Scenic	-	The spotter estimated wind gusts around 60 mph.
June 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Scenic	-	The combination of hail and strong wind gusts damaged some crops.
June 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Scenic	-	Small branches were downed by the wind.
June 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Scenic	-	Wind gusts were estimated at 60 mph.
August 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Scenic	-	Wind gusts were estimated at 60 mph.
July 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Scenic	-	Wind gusts were estimated at 60 mph.
July 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Scenic	-	Wind gust were estimated at 60 mph.
June 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Scenic	-	Wind gusts were estimated at 60 mph.
July 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Scenic	-	Wind gusts were estimated at 60 mph.
June 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Scenic	-	Wind gusts were estimated at 60 mph.
June 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Scenic	-	Wind gusts were estimated at 60 mph.
August 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Scenic	-	Wind gusts were estimated to 60 mph.
July 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Scenic	-	Wind gusts were estimated at 65 mph.
July 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Scenic	-	Tree limbs downed and several dead trees snapped apart.
July 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Scenic	-	Up to 12 inch diameter limbs were snapped off trees.
August 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Scenic	-	no account filed
June 2024	Hail	Scenic	-	no account filed
June 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Scenic	-	no account filed
June 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Scenic	-	no account filed
May 2023	Hail	Scenic	-	no account filed
May 2023	Hail	Scenic	-	no account filed
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Scenic	-	no account filed
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Scenic	-	no account filed
June 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Scenic	-	no account filed
August 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Scenic	-	no account filed
July 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Scenic	-	no account filed
June 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Scenic	-	no account filed
June 2022	Hail	Scenic	-	no account filed
June 2021	Hail	Scenic	-	no account filed
July 2021	Hail	Scenic	-	no account filed
May 2020	Hail	Scenic	-	no account filed
April 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Scenic	-	no account filed
August 2020	Hail	Scenic	-	no account filed
August 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Scenic	-	no account filed
August 2020	Hail	Scenic	-	no account filed
June 2020	Hail	Scenic	-	no account filed
June 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Scenic	-	no account filed
June 2020	Hail	Scenic	-	no account filed
June 2020	Hail	Scenic	-	no account filed
July 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Scenic	-	no account filed
May 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Scenic	-	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 14001185 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.
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.