BlockFrom the record
One of 78 National Register listings published here for Yankton County · listed in 1980 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Jessie Smith Farmstead
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
- Listed as. Smith, Jessie, Farmstead - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
- Address. SW of Volin, Volin, 57031
- When was it listed? April 1980
- Category. building
- Also known as. Northern and Central Townships of Yankton MRA
- Township. Volin township
- National Register reference number. 80003765 - 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
28 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 28 fires within 5 miles of Jessie Smith Farmstead between 1999 and 2020, burning about 82 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 | 15 |
| Debris and open burning | 10 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | MISSING TIRE |
| 9 August 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | MEDIAN I |
| 31 August 1999 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Volin Volunteer Fire Department | HULT |
| 29 August 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | ROUND LAKE FIRE |
| 1 August 2012 | Smoking | 1.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | STATE 50 FIRE |
| 26 July 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | STATE 50 3 |
| 26 July 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | STATE 50 2 |
| 26 July 2000 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Volin Volunteer Fire Department | ALVIN LIEN |
Mines and quarries near this property
5 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Jessie Smith Farmstead: 3 producers, 2 past producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Knutsen Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Gorset Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Knutsen Sand & Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Oursland Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Volin Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this property
8 since 2000Regional 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 |
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 milesOther 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 | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Simonson Farmstead | 0.8 miles | 1980 | |
| Mathias Peterson Homestead | 1.5 miles | 1980 | |
 | Vangen Church | 2.6 miles | 1980 |
| ES Volin Farmstead | 2.9 miles | 1980 | |
| Louis Volin House | 2.9 miles | 1980 | |
 | Volin Town Hall | 3.0 miles | 1980 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 80003765 in Record Group 79. |
| 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.