BlockFrom the record
One of 22 National Register listings published here for Spink County · listed in 1982 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Harlow Farmstead
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 8 buildingss, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
- Address. SW of Turton, Frankfort, 57440
- When was it listed? February 1982
- Category. building
- Township. Harmony township
- National Register reference number. 82003940 - 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
3 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Harlow Farmstead between 1999 and 2002, burning about 185 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 |
|---|---|
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 September 2002 | Equipment and vehicle use | 85 acres | Turton Volunteer Fire Department | MEYERS |
| 27 October 1999 | Debris and open burning | 100 acres | Turton Volunteer Fire Department | JONES |
| 24 October 2002 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Huron Wetland Management District | SLUNECKA |
Storms near this property
20 since 2002Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Frankfort, the town this property stands in, in 20 storm reports between 2002 and 2025: 14 hail, 5 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2013 | Flash Flood | Frankfort | $5,000 | A section of a gravel driveway was washed out requiring some repairs. |
| July 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Frankfort | - | A trained spotter reported numerous tree branches downed by thunderstorm winds. |
| August 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Frankfort | - | Seventy mph winds destroyed three grain bins along with downing numerous trees in a shelter belt. Significant crop damage also occurred from the combination of winds and dime size hail. |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Frankfort | - | Several large tree branches were broken off by the high winds. |
| June 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Frankfort | - | no account filed |
| June 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Frankfort | - | no account filed |
| September 2016 | Hail | Frankfort | - | no account filed |
| June 2015 | Hail | Frankfort | - | no account filed |
| July 2015 | Hail | Frankfort | - | no account filed |
| July 2015 | Hail | Frankfort | - | no account filed |
| June 2013 | Hail | Frankfort | - | no account filed |
| September 2013 | Hail | Frankfort | - | no account filed |
| September 2013 | Hail | Frankfort | - | no account filed |
| July 2012 | Hail | Frankfort | - | no account filed |
| May 2012 | Hail | Frankfort | - | no account filed |
| September 2007 | Hail | Frankfort | - | no account filed |
| September 2005 | Hail | Frankfort | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Hail | Frankfort | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Hail | Frankfort | - | no account filed |
| July 2002 | Hail | Frankfort | - | 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
1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Doland Commercial Historic District | 7.5 miles | 2019 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 82003940 in Record Group 79. |
| Spink County | All 22 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.
- 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.