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Brockmueller Barn

Built in 1902. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

From the record

“The Brockmueller Barn is a historic barn near Volin, South Dakota. It was built in 1902 by Charles Brockmueller who had acquired the land in 1893, and designed with a "pitched gable roof with side extensions, a random rock-faced stone ground story and horizontal wood siding upper levels.".”

Wikipedia article Brockmueller Barn, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 78 National Register listings published here for Yankton County · listed in 1980 · category: Building · built in 1902.

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

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. S of SD 46, Volin, 57072
  • When was it listed? April 1980
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. Northern and Central Townships of Yankton MRA
  • Township. Walshtown township
  • When was it built? 1902
  • National Register reference number. 80003757 - 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

29 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 29 fires within 5 miles of Brockmueller Barn between 2000 and 2020, burning about 1,480 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/undetermined17
Debris and open burning7
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Smoking1
Recreation and ceremony1
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
5 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionROADSIDE
4 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined40 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionFLORIECH FIRE
17 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionIFD
9 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionDISKMOWER I
9 July 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresYankton Volunteer Fire DepartmentFORHRTICH 1
7 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionKLIMISH
17 July 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionBIG FIRE POW WOW
15 July 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresYankton Volunteer Fire DepartmentFORHRTICH 2

Every fire recorded in Yankton County

Mines and quarries near this property

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Brockmueller Barn: 6 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
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
M T Johnson PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Schram Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Yankton County

Storms near this property

8 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Volin, the town this property stands in, in 8 storm reports between 2000 and 2022: 5 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind. 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 WindVolin$10,000Thunderstorm winds blew down power lines.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindVolin-A farm outbuilding was destroyed.
June 2009HailVolin-Hail was accompanied by heavy rain and minor street flooding.
May 2006Thunderstorm WindVolin-A gustnado of brief duration was observed along the outflow of thunderstorms.
April 2006HailVolin-no account filed
July 2002HailVolin-no account filed
June 2000HailVolin-no account filed
June 2000HailVolin-no account filed

Every storm 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
Walshtown School0.2 miles1980
Gordon House4.0 miles1980
Marindahl Township Hall4.3 miles1980
Kietzman Farmstead5.0 miles1980
Bernt Gustad House5.1 miles1980
St. Agnes Church5.2 miles1980

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 80003757 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.
  • 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.