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Anderson Homestead

Built in 1876. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.

From the record

“The Anderson Homestead, located in Clay County, South Dakota east of Hub City, South Dakota on the county line road between Clay County and Union County, South Dakota, dates from 1876. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.”

Wikipedia article Anderson Homestead, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 44 National Register listings published here for Clay County · listed in 1978 · category: District · built in 1876.

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

The listing

  • Address. E of Hub City, Hub City, 57004
  • When was it listed? March 1978
  • Category. district
  • Township. Garfield township
  • When was it built? 1876
  • National Register reference number. 78002543 - 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

13 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Anderson Homestead between 1999 and 2017, burning about 72 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Equipment and vehicle use3
Debris and open burning1
Recreation and ceremony1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
6 April 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionGRASS FIRE
5 April 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresAlcester Volunteer Fire DepartmentWEST INTERSTATE
4 April 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresAlcester Volunteer Fire DepartmentBRULE
21 April 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionMM35
18 April 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionSLUTIER
5 March 2000Debris and open burning3.0 acresAlcester Volunteer Fire DepartmentSTAR SCHOOL
27 March 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionI-29
16 December 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression306

Every fire recorded in Clay County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Anderson Homestead: 1 producer. All of them 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Seburn Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Clay County

Storms near this property

10 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hub City, the town this property stands in, in 10 storm reports between 1999 and 2023: 6 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2008Thunderstorm WindHub City$5,000Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage and blew shingles off a roof.
May 2023HailHub City-A significant accumulation of pea to dime size hail occurred.
May 2023Thunderstorm WindHub City-Thunderstorm winds snapped several large trees.
June 2000Tornado (F0)Hub City-A brief tornado caused no reported damage.
May 2008HailHub City-no account filed
June 2008HailHub City-no account filed
May 2003HailHub City-no account filed
June 2003HailHub City-no account filed
June 2002Thunderstorm WindHub City-no account filed
May 1999HailHub City-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Clay 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

3 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Garfield Township Hall3.0 miles2004
Daniel A. Messler Homestead3.0 miles2002
Yusten House8.0 miles2007

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 78002543 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Clay CountyAll 44 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.