Photograph of Fort Pierre Chouteau — Photograph by Vergil Noble, administrator for archaeological National Historic Landmarks in the Midwest Region, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Fort Pierre Chouteau Site

A National Historic Landmark. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.

From the record

“Fort Pierre Chouteau, also just Fort Pierre, was a major trading post and military outpost in the mid-19th century on the west bank of the Missouri River in what is now central South Dakota. Established in 1832 by Pierre Chouteau, Jr. of St.”
Wikipedia article Fort Pierre Chouteau, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 8 National Register listings published here for Stanley County · listed in 1976 · category: Site · a National Historic Landmark.

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

The listing

Address. N of Fort Pierre, Fort Pierre, 57532
When was it listed? April 1976
Category. site
Unorganized territory. North Stanley
National Register reference number. 76001756 - 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

76 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 76 fires within 5 miles of Fort Pierre Chouteau Site between 1996 and 2020, burning about 2,145 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	45
Fireworks	10
Equipment and vehicle use	9
Debris and open burning	6
Natural	3
Other causes	1
Smoking	1
Arson/incendiarism	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
30 September 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	ORV CA
30 September 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	ORV
30 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	30 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	4-WHEELER GRASS FIRE
3 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	RIFLE RANGE
25 September 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	200 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	BUICK FIRE
19 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	40 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	GRASS FIRE
15 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	600 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	GRASS FIRE
15 September 1996	Debris and open burning	30 acres	Huron Wetland Management District	HYDE

Every fire recorded in Stanley 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 Fort Pierre Chouteau Site: 2 producers, 2 past producers, 1 unknown. 2 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
Buffalo Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Buffalo Pit #2	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Corps of Engineers Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Polo Grounds Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Stanley County Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Stanley 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

6 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
La Verendrye Site	2.5 miles	1974
Jefferson Davis Carr House	2.5 miles	1982
Old Fort Pierre School	2.5 miles	1977
American Legion Community Hall	2.6 miles	2017
Stockgrowers Bank Building	2.6 miles	1977
United Church of Christ, Congregational	2.6 miles	1977

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 76001756 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Stanley County	All 8 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.