Fort Randall

Built in 1856. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.

From the record

“The Fort Randall Military Post was established in 1856 to help keep peace on the frontier. It was located on the south side of the Missouri River in South Dakota, just below the present site of the Fort Randall Dam.”
Wikipedia article Fort Randall, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 12 National Register listings published here for Gregory County · listed in 1976 · category: District · built in 1856.

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

The listing

Address. 3 mi. SW of Pickstown, Pickstown, 68719
When was it listed? April 1976
Category. district
Unorganized territory. Southeast Gregory
When was it built? 1856
National Register reference number. 76001735 - 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

23 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 23 fires within 5 miles of Fort Randall between 1997 and 2020, burning about 456 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 2 were 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Fireworks	3
Debris and open burning	3
Natural	2
Arson/incendiarism	2
Smoking	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Firearms and explosives use	1
Recreation and ceremony	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 1997	Natural	under an acre	Karl Mundt National Wildlife Refuge	MUNDT SU1
10 September 2005	Recreation and ceremony	2.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
16 August 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	112 acres	Karl Mundt National Wildlife Refuge	KARL MUNDT
5 July 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15 acres	Yankton Agency	LAR7
4 July 2006	Fireworks	1.0 acres	Yankton Agency	YST2006-015
31 July 2005	Smoking	1.5 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
3 July 2006	Misuse of fire by a minor	1.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
3 July 2006	Fireworks	1.0 acres	Yankton Agency	YST2006-014

Every fire recorded in Gregory 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 76001735 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Gregory County	All 12 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.