Louis Volin House

Built in 1875 (Queen Anne style). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

From the record

“The Louis Volin House is a historic two-story house in Volin, South Dakota. It was built in 1875 for Louis Volin, an immigrant from Quebec, Canada who founded the town of Volin in what was then known as the Dakota Territory.”
Wikipedia article Louis Volin House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 78 National Register listings published here for Yankton County · listed in 1980 · category: Building · built in 1875, 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 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Volin, Louis, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. NW of Volin, Volin, 57072
When was it listed? April 1980
Category. building
Also known as. Northern and Central Townships of Yankton MRA
Town. Volin town
When was it built? 1875
Architectural style. Queen Anne style
National Register reference number. 80003768 - 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

16 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Louis Volin House between 1999 and 2020, burning about 577 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	7
Debris and open burning	7
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
31 August 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Volin Volunteer Fire Department	HULT
26 July 2000	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Volin Volunteer Fire Department	ALVIN LIEN
13 May 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	UNAUTHORIZED BURN
5 April 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
14 April 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Volin Volunteer Fire Department	GAME PRESERVE
29 March 1999	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	McLaughlin Volunteer Fire Department	GRASS STRUCTURE
25 March 2003	Debris and open burning	10 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
25 March 2002	Debris and open burning	15 acres	Yankton Volunteer Fire Department	LYONS

Every fire recorded in Yankton County

Mines and quarries near this property

5 within 5 miles

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

Site	Commodity	Status
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

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
Volin Town Hall	0.2 miles	1980
Volin School	0.3 miles	1980
ES Volin Farmstead	0.5 miles	1980
Gorsett Farmstead	1.8 miles	1980
Walker McGregor Farmstead	2.0 miles	1980
Simonson Farmstead	2.6 miles	1980

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 80003768 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.