Bernt Gustad House

Built in 1906 (Queen Anne style). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

From the record

“The Bernt Gustad House is a historic one-and-a-half-story house in Volin, South Dakota. It was built in 1906 as a cottage with a dormer, and designed in the Queen Anne architectural style.”
Wikipedia article Bernt Gustad House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 78 National Register listings published here for Yankton County · listed in 1980 · category: Building · built in 1906, Queen Anne style.

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 6 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Gustad, Bernt, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. NW of Volin, Volin, 57046
When was it listed? April 1980
Category. building
Also known as. Northern and Central Townships of Yankton MRA
Township. Mission Hill township
When was it built? 1906
Architectural style. Queen Anne style
National Register reference number. 80003760 - 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

39 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 39 fires within 5 miles of Bernt Gustad House between 1999 and 2020, burning about 2,304 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	14
Debris and open burning	14
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Smoking	1
Recreation and ceremony	1

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

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
5 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	ROADSIDE
4 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	40 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	FLORIECH FIRE
5 August 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	MOOSE FIRE
9 July 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	DISKMOWER I
30 June 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Yankton Volunteer Fire Department	NNPS FIRE
18 May 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	LANE FIRE
5 April 2000	Power generation/transmission/distribution	50 acres	Yankton Volunteer Fire Department	NELSON
5 April 2000	Power generation/transmission/distribution	40 acres	Lesterville Fire & Rescue	NEILSON FARM

Every fire recorded in Yankton County

Mines and quarries near this property

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Bernt Gustad House: 7 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
May 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Volin	$10,000	Thunderstorm winds blew down power lines.
May 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Volin	-	A farm outbuilding was destroyed.
June 2009	Hail	Volin	-	Hail was accompanied by heavy rain and minor street flooding.
May 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Volin	-	A gustnado of brief duration was observed along the outflow of thunderstorms.
April 2006	Hail	Volin	-	no account filed
July 2002	Hail	Volin	-	no account filed
June 2000	Hail	Volin	-	no account filed
June 2000	Hail	Volin	-	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.

Property	Distance	Listed
New Hope Farm Polygonal Barn	1.0 miles	2004
Lewis Olson Log House	2.5 miles	1980
New Hope Farm Swine Barn	2.6 miles	2004
Schaffer Farmstead	3.4 miles	1980
Jencks Farmstead	4.0 miles	1980
United Church of Christ	4.3 miles	1980

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 80003760 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Yankton County	All 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.