Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.
From the record
“The Corson Emminger Round Barn near Watertown, South Dakota, United States, is a round barn that was built during 1909-1910 by Corson Emminger. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.”
Wikipedia article Corson Emminger Round Barn, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 43 National Register listings published here for Codington County · listed in 1978 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.78002546- 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
32 since 1999
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 32 fires within 5 miles of Corson Emminger Round Barn
between 1999 and 2012, burning about 795 acres in total. None 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
11
Debris and open burning
7
Misuse of fire by a minor
5
Fireworks
3
Arson/incendiarism
2
Other causes
1
Smoking
1
Equipment and vehicle use
1
Power generation/transmission/distribution
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
9 workings within 5 miles of Corson Emminger Round Barn: 6 producers, 3 past producers.
6 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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Watertown, the town this property stands in, in 95 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 55 hail, 24 thunderstorm wind, 5 tornado, 4 flash 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.
Apparent microburst with Winds of unknown speed caused broken windows and damage to vehicles from blowing gravel, sand and lumber. The wind was confined to the parking area and facilities of a casino.
A trained spotter reported street flooding halfway up car tires on roadways in Watertown from brief but intense rainfall. The COOP observer in Watertown recorded 1.22 inches of rainfall in 1 hour.
A tornado touched down three miles west of Watertown destroying a wooden and metal sheep shelter and damaging two other shelters. There were also some tree branches downed.
A lightning strike splintered the base of a large maple tree in Watertown and downed a large tree branch. Pieces of wood damaged the sun room of a house and broke out several windows in some surrounding homes. The lightning strike also caused some water breaks and basement flooding in one home.
Winds gusting to 80 mph knocked down two large cottonwood trees, blew a single car garage apart, tore shingles off of the house, blew a trampoline about 400 feet and scattered the lawn furniture.
Winds gusting to over 70 mph in Watertown blew a portion of the roof off of a house and destroyed the attached garage on another house. Near Watertown, a pole barn was destroyed, a hay bale was blown into a basement window of a house and part of their deck was torn away. The high winds also downed many tree branches in town.
One-third of Watertown residents were without power for up to four hours when lightning struck a major electrical transmission line on 3rd street northwest. Seven circuits were lost, three overhead lines were burned along with other switches and cutouts.
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.
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.
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