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One of 36 National Register listings published here for Hughes County · listed in 1976 · category: Building · built in 1884.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Mentor Graham House
Built in 1884. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Listed as. Graham, Mentor, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
- Address. U.S. 14, Blunt, 57522
- When was it listed? December 1976
- Category. building
- Unorganized territory. North Hughes
- When was it built? 1884
- National Register reference number. 76001736 - 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
8 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Mentor Graham House between 2000 and 2016, burning about 145 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 |
|---|---|
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Debris and open burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31 July 2006 | Equipment and vehicle use | 4.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | not named |
| 10 July 2005 | Equipment and vehicle use | 100 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | GROSS / BUHLER |
| 7 May 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Hughes County | WARRINER 1 |
| 12 May 2006 | Equipment and vehicle use | 30 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | not named |
| 21 March 2000 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Blunt Volunteer Fire Department | SPARK |
| 10 March 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | ANDERSON |
| 10 March 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.5 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | DARLING |
| 9 November 2014 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | C FIRE |
Storms near this property
60 of 68 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Blunt, the town this property stands in, in 68 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 31 thunderstorm wind, 29 hail, 4 flash flood, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 1999 | Flash Flood | Blunt | $175,000 | no account filed |
| August 2009 | Flash Flood | Blunt | $5,000 | Several county and township roads between Blunt and Harrold were overrun with water flowing out of nearby fields. |
| June 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Blunt | $500 | Strong winds damaged a large sign. |
| June 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Blunt | - | A South Dakota Department of Transportation weather station recorded a wind gust of 64 mph. |
| August 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Blunt | - | Trained spotter estimated wind speeds of 60 mph. |
| August 2019 | Hail | Blunt | - | Golf ball to baseball size hail fell in an around Blunt with many windows broken along with siding damaged. |
| August 2019 | Flood | Blunt | - | Very heavy rain caused flooding over Highway 14 near Blunt. The water depth was 1 to 2 feet in spots disrupting traffic for several hours. |
| August 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Blunt | - | Estimated sixty-five mph winds occurred with baseball size hail with windows and siding damaged. |
| August 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Blunt | - | Seventy-eight mph winds were measured along with tennis ball size hail. |
| May 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Blunt | - | A semi truck was blown over near the junction of Highways 14 and 83 by sixty mph winds. |
| May 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Blunt | - | Some small trees were downed in Blunt by estimated sixty-five mph winds. |
| August 2018 | Hail | Blunt | - | Very large hail caused some siding and car damage along with knocking out some windows. |
| June 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Blunt | - | Sixty-five mph winds tossed patio furniture around, scattered lumber and other building supplies, rolled an a-frame feeder, and broke 3 to 4 inch branches off of several trees. |
| June 2007 | Flash Flood | Blunt | - | Heavy rains of around 4 inches flooded a road in several places near Blunt. |
| June 2003 | Tornado (F0) | Blunt | - | A tornado moved into Hughes county from Sully county before dissipating. No damage occurred. |
| August 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Blunt | - | Eighty mph winds downed several trees and many large tree branches in Blunt. Some damage was also done to a few buildings and roofs. |
| June 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Blunt | - | Seventy mph winds brought down several trees and many tree branches in Blunt. Just west of Blunt, part of a barn and a shed were severely damaged. |
| August 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Blunt | - | High winds destroyed a grain auger. |
| June 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Blunt | - | Strong winds to 60 mph blew many tree branches down throughout Blunt. |
| June 2025 | Hail | Blunt | - | no account filed |
| June 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Blunt | - | no account filed |
| July 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Blunt | - | no account filed |
| July 2023 | Hail | Blunt | - | no account filed |
| June 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Blunt | - | no account filed |
| July 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Blunt | - | no account filed |
| July 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Blunt | - | no account filed |
| May 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Blunt | - | no account filed |
| July 2020 | Hail | Blunt | - | no account filed |
| August 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Blunt | - | no account filed |
| August 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Blunt | - | no account filed |
| June 2020 | Hail | Blunt | - | no account filed |
| July 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Blunt | - | no account filed |
| August 2019 | Hail | Blunt | - | no account filed |
| August 2019 | Hail | Blunt | - | no account filed |
| August 2019 | Funnel Cloud | Blunt | - | no account filed |
| August 2019 | Hail | Blunt | - | no account filed |
| July 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Blunt | - | no account filed |
| May 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Blunt | - | no account filed |
| May 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Blunt | - | no account filed |
| August 2018 | Hail | Blunt | - | no account filed |
| August 2018 | Hail | Blunt | - | no account filed |
| June 2017 | Hail | Blunt | - | no account filed |
| July 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Blunt | - | no account filed |
| June 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Blunt | - | no account filed |
| June 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Blunt | - | no account filed |
| September 2012 | Hail | Blunt | - | no account filed |
| March 2010 | Flood | Blunt | - | no account filed |
| July 2009 | Flash Flood | Blunt | - | no account filed |
| August 2009 | Hail | Blunt | - | no account filed |
| July 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Blunt | - | no account filed |
| July 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Blunt | - | no account filed |
| April 2007 | Hail | Blunt | - | no account filed |
| May 2006 | Hail | Blunt | - | no account filed |
| August 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Blunt | - | no account filed |
| August 2006 | Hail | Blunt | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Blunt | - | no account filed |
| July 2004 | Hail | Blunt | - | no account filed |
| August 2004 | Hail | Blunt | - | no account filed |
| August 2004 | Hail | Blunt | - | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Hail | Blunt | - | no account filed |
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 76001736 in Record Group 79. |
| Hughes County | All 36 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.