Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.
From the record
“The DeJong House is a historic one-and-a-half-story house in Utica, South Dakota. It was built in 1905 as an "L-shaped gable structure with clapboard facing and two single stack chimneys." It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since April 16, 1980.”
Wikipedia article DeJong House, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 78 National Register listings published here for Yankton County · listed in 1980 · category: Building.
Also known as. Northern and Central Townships of Yankton MRA
Township. Utica township
National Register reference number.80003750- 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
50 since 1999
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 50 fires within 5 miles of DeJong House
between 1999 and 2020, burning about 1,814 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/undetermined
30
Debris and open burning
13
Equipment and vehicle use
5
Smoking
2
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
5 workings within 5 miles of DeJong House: 5 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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Utica, the town this property stands in, in 56 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 37 hail, 10 flood, 8 thunderstorm wind, 1 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.
Street flooding in numerous intersections within the city of Yankton. A high number of flooded basements also reported, especially along Marne Creek. Other flooding resulted in extensive damage to public infrastructure including numerous county and township roads, culverts, and some bridges.
Rainfall amounts across Yankton County from June 20-22 ranged from 1 to 3 inches. Farther north and upstream, 5 to 10 inches of rain fell across portions of southeast South Dakota. This rainfall resulted in major flooding along the James River and extensive overland flooding along the adjoining flood plain. Some overland flooding also occurred along Clay Creek and the Marindahl Lake area. ||Multiple county roads succumbed to flood waters and were closed with some damages reported. Preliminary damage assessments estimate loss to public infrastructure to be nearly 227 thousand dollars. ||For additional information on river flooding, please see other flood entries for Yankton County.
Flooding resulted in crop losses and damage to public infrastructure including county and township roads and culverts. Crop loss estimates provided by the United States Department of Agriculture.
During crop planting season, prolonged flooding led to the loss of or inability to plant crops across the area. Crop loss estimates provided by the United States Department of Agriculture.
Heavy rainfall (2.60 inches 8 miles west northwest of Springfield and 2.71 inches at Tyndall) and snow melt was the primary contributor to the flooding along Lewis and Clark Reservoir; however, the final level of crest had at least a partial contribution from an uncontrolled release with the failure of Spencer Dam along the Niobrara River in Nebraska during the evening of March 13. The highest crest on record resulted, as the Missouri River at Gavins Point Dam (gage site GPDN1) crested 2.02 feet above flood stage on March 15.
Flooding along the Missouri River developed and then increased in late May as runoff from excessive upstream snowmelt and rain reached the area. Lowlands flooded included some roads near the River away from Lewis and Clark Lake. The river reached its highest May levels at the end of the month.
Flooding from upstream spring snowmelt and subsequent heavy rain continued to worsen for most of June. Lowlands along the river east of Lewis and Clark Lake including numerous roads, parks, recreational areas and several homes were flooded. The flooding included the Larson's Landing development west of Yankton with most homes and recreational vehicles there flooded. Thousands of acres of usually dry land were flooded, with several farms affected and farm equipment damaged. The highest stage at Yankton was 6.1 feet above flood stage on June 29th.
Flooding from upstream spring snowmelt and subsequent heavy rain continued at moderate to major levels at the start of August. Lowlands along the river east of Lewis and Clark Lake including numerous roads, parks, recreational areas and several homes remained flooded. The flooding included the Larson's Landing development west of Yankton with most homes and recreational vehicles there remaining flooded. Thousands of acres of usually dry land, including several farms, remained flooded. The river fell slowly during the month. The highest stage at Yankton was 5.5 feet above flood stage on August 1st.
Flooding from upstream spring snowmelt and subsequent heavy rain continued at major levels through July. Lowlands along the river east of Lewis and Clark Lake including numerous roads, parks, recreational areas and several homes remained flooded. The flooding included the Larson's Landing development west of Yankton with most homes and recreational vehicles there remaining flooded. Thousands of acres of usually dry land, including several farms, remained flooded. The river began a very slow general fall late in the month. The highest stage at Yankton was 6.1 feet above flood stage on July 7th. This was equal to the highest level recorded in June.
Flooding from upstream spring snowmelt and subsequent heavy rain decreased steadily, and ended late in the month. Flooding of roads, recreational areas, other parks, golf courses, and a few homes ended, including the flooding of homes and recreational vehicles at the Larson's Landing development. The highest stage at Yankton was 0.7 feet above flood stage on September 1st.
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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