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Gordon House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

From the record

“The Gordon House is a historic house in Irene, South Dakota. It was built in 1885 with bricks from Yankton.”

Wikipedia article Gordon House (Irene, South Dakota), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 78 National Register listings published here for Yankton County · listed in 1980 · category: Building.

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

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. N of SD 46, Irene, 57037
  • When was it listed? April 1980
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. Northern and Central Townships of Yankton MRA
  • Township. Mayfield township
  • National Register reference number. 80003736 - 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

14 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Gordon House between 1999 and 2017, burning about 1,330 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/undetermined9
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Debris and open burning2
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
17 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionIFD
15 July 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresYankton Volunteer Fire DepartmentFORHRTICH 2
11 June 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionNONE 2
6 April 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionHILL TOP FIRE
5 April 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionIFD
16 April 2017Debris and open burning18 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionHANSEN
24 March 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined40 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionIRENE
17 March 2009Power generation/transmission/distribution600 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionNE JIM RIVER ROAD

Every fire recorded in Yankton County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Gordon House: 3 past producers. None of them still produces. 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
Erickson Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
M T Johnson PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Peter Jonason Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Yankton 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Brockmueller Barn4.0 miles1980
Walshtown School4.2 miles1980
Ingebrigtsen-Hinseth Farmstead5.7 miles1980
Marindahl Township Hall6.1 miles1980
St. Agnes Church6.7 miles1980
Martin's Evangelical Church7.3 miles1980

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 80003736 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Yankton CountyAll 78 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.