Ingalls House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.

From the record

“Ingalls House is a historic house museum at 210 3rd Street Southwest in De Smet, South Dakota. The 3rd street house was moved into on Christmas Eve 1887.”
Wikipedia article Ingalls House (De Smet, South Dakota), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 23 National Register listings published here for Kingsbury County · listed in 1975 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 210 3rd St. W., De Smet, 57231
When was it listed? April 1975
Category. building
City. De Smet city
National Register reference number. 75001717 - 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

25 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Ingalls House between 1999 and 2018, burning about 446 acres in total. 1 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
Equipment and vehicle use	11
Railroad operations and maintenance	5
Debris and open burning	4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Natural	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
6 September 2016	Natural	under an acre	Madison Wetland Management District	HALVERSON
17 September 2009	Debris and open burning	140 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
16 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	JANSSEN
11 July 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	20 acres	Plankinton Volunteer Fire Department	MAYCLIN
28 June 2012	Debris and open burning	30 acres	Madison Wetland Management District	HALVERSON
16 May 2001	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Desmet Volunteer Fire Department	INCIDENT 693
30 April 2002	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Desmet Volunteer Fire Department	INCIDENT #712
22 April 2000	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Desmet Volunteer Fire Department	INCIDENT #671

Every fire recorded in Kingsbury County

Mines and quarries near this property

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Ingalls House: 4 producers, 1 past producer. 4 still produce. 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Bitner S & G Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Braun Sand & Gravel	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Close Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Johnson Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Spader Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Kingsbury County

Storms near this property

60 of 69 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names De Smet, the town this property stands in, in 69 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 35 hail, 18 thunderstorm wind, 9 tornado, 3 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
June 2010	Hail	De Smet	$300,000	Widespread large hail, with numerous stones to baseball size, fell along a narrow path several miles long which included the town of De Smet. The hail heavily damaged numerous vehicles, denting vehicle bodies and smashing or cracking windows, and also heavily damaged roofs on homes and other buildings. Damage to siding and to windows on buildings was limited because the hail was accompanied by light winds. The hail damaged lights at the Laura Ingalls Wilder Pageant site. One large hailstone punched a hole in the roof of a metal building. Crop damage was suspected in the area, but the amount of crop damage was not known.
May 2005	Lightning	De Smet	$200,000	Lightning struck a house, starting a fire which destroyed the house and its contents.
May 2000	Hail	De Smet	$100,000	Large hail broke windows and damaged vehicles.
July 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	De Smet	$100,000	no account filed
August 2020	Tornado (EF1)	De Smet	$75,000	A tornado spun up west of 432nd Avenue and north of 211th Street. As the tornado traveled generally eastward, ground scour was noted to crops. The greatest damage occurred mid-track where a barn collapsed, with the debris blown downstream into another building. A few other outbuildings were also damaged. Large branches in tree breaks were snapped and the upper half of a concrete silo collapsed. The tornado dissipated one quarter mile east of 432nd Avenue around 3 miles south-southwest of De Smet. Property damage costs are rough estimates.
May 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	De Smet	$20,000	Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, blew down a pole barn, and damaged outbuildings.
August 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	De Smet	$12,000	Short-lived thunderstorm wind gusts rolled a semi-truck over on U.S. Highway 14 just west of De Smet, and resulted in a few trees down around town. Property damage costs are a rough estimate.
July 2002	Lightning	De Smet	$10,000	Lightning struck a livestock barn on the Laura Ingalls Wilder homestead and killed two carriage horses inside. The barn suffered minor damage.
June 1999	Lightning	De Smet	$2,000	no account filed
June 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	De Smet	$1,000	Thunderstorm winds downed several tree branches in De Smet, including a limb from 6 to 8 inches in diameter. Property damage costs are a rough estimate.
July 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	De Smet	$1,000	Thunderstorm winds damaged a shed.
August 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	De Smet	-	Thunderstorm wind gusts caused extensive tree damage throughout the De Smet city limits, but no structural damage.
July 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	De Smet	-	Thunderstorm outflow winds churned up large waves on Lake Henry after 2000 CST. Indirect fatalities occurred when two persons on flotation devices were overcome by the high wave action and drowned.
August 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	De Smet	-	Thunderstorm winds blew the top off a grain bin, which was secured with large bolts.
October 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	De Smet	-	A tree fell on a power line and resulted in several power outages around De Smet.
May 2022	Hail	De Smet	-	Crop damage is an estimate from insured losses. Information provided by the United States Department of Agriculture.
June 2020	Flash Flood	De Smet	-	Water flowed rapidly to a foot depth over Highway 25 at 215th Street.
August 2018	Flash Flood	De Smet	-	Water was flowing over the road along 215th Street and State Highway 25.
August 2018	Heavy Rain	De Smet	-	Rainfall totaled 4.75 inches in a two-hour period.
August 2018	Heavy Rain	De Smet	-	Rainfall of 2.55 inches occurred over a two-hour period.
August 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	De Smet	-	Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including up to 2.5 inch diameter branches blown down.
July 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	De Smet	-	Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including branches blown down.
June 2012	Hail	De Smet	-	Large hail up to baseball size caused an unknown amount of damage to vehicles, windows, roofs, and crops over a long path.
March 2011	Hail	De Smet	-	Large hail produced sufficient accumulations to make part of Highway 14 and some other roads icy.
June 2006	Hail	De Smet	-	Large hail covered the ground in places and damaged corn and soybean crops. The amount of crop damage could not be determined.
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	De Smet	-	Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including at least one large tree blown down.
September 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	De Smet	-	Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including several branches blown down.
July 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	De Smet	-	Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including half a large tree blown down. The winds also caused an unknown amount of crop damage.
July 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	De Smet	-	Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including 6 to 8 inch diameter limbs blown down.
June 2003	Tornado (F0)	De Smet	-	A brief tornado caused no reported damage.
June 2003	Tornado (F1)	De Smet	-	A tornado damaged farm buildings and crops.
June 2003	Tornado (F0)	De Smet	-	A brief tornado caused no reported damage.
June 2003	Tornado (F0)	De Smet	-	A brief tornado caused no reported damage.
June 2003	Tornado (F1)	De Smet	-	A tornado damaged structures and trees along the edge of Mud Lake.
June 2003	Tornado (F0)	De Smet	-	A tornado caused no reported damage before crossing north into Clark County.
June 2003	Tornado (F1)	De Smet	-	A tornado destroyed or heavily damaged several farm structures.
July 1997	Tornado (F0)	De Smet	-	A brief tornado in an open area resulted in no reported damage.
July 2025	Hail	De Smet	-	no account filed
August 2023	Hail	De Smet	-	no account filed
August 2023	Hail	De Smet	-	no account filed
August 2023	Hail	De Smet	-	no account filed
July 2017	Hail	De Smet	-	no account filed
March 2011	Hail	De Smet	-	no account filed
May 2009	Hail	De Smet	-	no account filed
July 2009	Hail	De Smet	-	no account filed
July 2009	Hail	De Smet	-	no account filed
June 2009	Hail	De Smet	-	no account filed
April 2007	Hail	De Smet	-	no account filed
September 2006	Hail	De Smet	-	no account filed
September 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	De Smet	-	no account filed
July 2006	Hail	De Smet	-	no account filed
August 2006	Hail	De Smet	-	no account filed
August 2006	Hail	De Smet	-	no account filed
August 2006	Hail	De Smet	-	no account filed
June 2002	Hail	De Smet	-	no account filed
June 2002	Hail	De Smet	-	no account filed
July 2002	Hail	De Smet	-	no account filed
April 2001	Hail	De Smet	-	no account filed
June 2001	Hail	De Smet	-	no account filed
May 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	De Smet	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Kingsbury 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.

Listed places nearby

4 within 8 miles

Other 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Thomas Ruth H. House	0.2 miles	1999
Chicago Northwestern Depot	0.4 miles	1976
Kingsbury County Courthouse	0.5 miles	1977
Railroad Camp Shanty	0.6 miles	1973

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 75001717 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Kingsbury County	All 23 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.