Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.
From the record
“The John Hill-Keltomaki Ranch near Brownsville, South Dakota, United States, at the original Keltomake Ranch site, includes work from 1925. It includes buildings built by John Hill Jr.”
Wikipedia article John Hill-Keltomaki Ranch, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 57 National Register listings published here for Lawrence County · listed in 1985 · category: Building.
Also known as. Architecture of Finnish Settlement TR
Unorganized territory. South Lawrence
National Register reference number.85003489- 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
99 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 99 fires within 5 miles of John Hill Ranch-Keltomaki
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,077 acres in total. 31 started naturally. 1 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
Natural
31
Debris and open burning
28
Recreation and ceremony
16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
14
Power generation/transmission/distribution
5
Equipment and vehicle use
2
Arson/incendiarism
1
Railroad operations and maintenance
1
Firearms and explosives use
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
93 workings within 5 miles of John Hill Ranch-Keltomaki: 67 past producers, 10 unknowns, 6 occurrences, 6 prospects.
4 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Silver, Lead, Lead. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
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.
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.
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