Frank and Clara Turner House

Built in 1888 (Queen Anne style). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.

From the record

“The Frank and Clara Turner House, at 1006 Main in Faulkton, South Dakota, is a Queen Anne style house built in 1897. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.”
Wikipedia article Frank and Clara Turner House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 10 National Register listings published here for Faulk County · listed in 1986 · category: Building · built in 1888, 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. Turner, Frank and Clara, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 1006 Main, Faulkton, 57438
When was it listed? February 1986
Category. building
Township. Tamworth township
When was it built? 1888
Architectural style. Queen Anne style
National Register reference number. 86000245 - 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

1 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Frank and Clara Turner House in 2000, burning about 7 acres in total. 1 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
Natural	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
15 July 2000	Natural	7.0 acres	Orient Volunteer Fire Department	JOE BOWAR

Every fire recorded in Faulk County

Storms near this property

53 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Faulkton, the town this property stands in, in 53 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 30 thunderstorm wind, 20 hail, 2 tornado, 1 funnel cloud. 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
August 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Faulkton	-	An elm tree was snapped, and several 2 to 4 inch diameter branches were downed by estimated 70 mph winds.
June 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Faulkton	-	A tree was downed by estimated seventy mph winds.
June 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Faulkton	-	Several power poles and lines were downed by estimated eighty mph winds along with many large tree limbs.
June 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Faulkton	-	A large tree was uprooted by an estimated seventy mph wind.
June 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Faulkton	-	Estimated seventy mph winds brought many tree branches down along with knocking out power for about half of Faulkton.
June 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Faulkton	-	Sixty mph winds were estimated.
August 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Faulkton	-	An estimated wind gust of sixty mph was reported by law enforcement.
May 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Faulkton	-	Eighty mph winds downed many trees in Faulkton along with damaging shingles and the roofs of several buildings. The high winds also caused power outages in Faulkton for several hours.
June 2005	Tornado (F1)	Faulkton	-	A tornado touched downed in Faulkton destroying a large fertilizer plant.
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Faulkton	-	Faulkton received a lot of damage from winds over 100 mph. Numerous trees, power lines and poles were downed, along with a lot of structural damage to buildings.
June 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Faulkton	-	On two different farms about five miles east of Faulkton, winds to 80 mph uprooted many trees, destroyed three steel grain bins, destroyed the roof on an historic barn, and the doors were blown off of several farm buildings.
June 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Faulkton	-	Winds to nearly 70 mph blew shingles off of the house, damaged a barn, and brought a few trees and many branches down.
August 2000	Tornado (F0)	Faulkton	-	A tornado touched down on the east side of Faulkton and tipped over and severely damaged the new press box and bleachers at the ball field. The tornado also knocked down some light poles and destroyed a hanger, an airplane, and a gyrocopter at the airport.
August 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Faulkton	-	Eighty mph winds brought a large tree down onto a mobile home at Lake Faulkton causing severe damage. Also, many other trees were downed at Lake Faulkton and some buildings were destroyed.
August 2000	Hail	Faulkton	-	Softball hail broke windows and caused extensive damage to a few vehicles and homes west of Faulkton.
August 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Faulkton	-	Seventy mph winds downed several trees east of Faulkton.
August 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Faulkton	-	Eighty mph winds brought down several trees and many tree branches throughout Faulkton.
June 2025	Hail	Faulkton	-	no account filed
May 2022	Hail	Faulkton	-	no account filed
August 2022	Hail	Faulkton	-	no account filed
May 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Faulkton	-	no account filed
July 2021	Hail	Faulkton	-	no account filed
June 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Faulkton	-	no account filed
May 2011	Hail	Faulkton	-	no account filed
August 2011	Hail	Faulkton	-	no account filed
May 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Faulkton	-	no account filed
July 2008	Funnel Cloud	Faulkton	-	no account filed
April 2007	Hail	Faulkton	-	no account filed
May 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Faulkton	-	no account filed
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Faulkton	-	no account filed
July 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Faulkton	-	no account filed
September 2005	Hail	Faulkton	-	no account filed
May 2004	Hail	Faulkton	-	no account filed
May 2004	Hail	Faulkton	-	no account filed
July 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Faulkton	-	no account filed
June 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Faulkton	-	no account filed
July 2002	Hail	Faulkton	-	no account filed
June 2002	Hail	Faulkton	-	no account filed
July 2001	Hail	Faulkton	-	no account filed
August 2001	Hail	Faulkton	-	no account filed
June 2000	Hail	Faulkton	-	no account filed
June 2000	Hail	Faulkton	-	no account filed
July 2000	Hail	Faulkton	-	no account filed
August 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Faulkton	-	no account filed
August 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Faulkton	-	no account filed
August 2000	Hail	Faulkton	-	no account filed
June 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Faulkton	-	no account filed
June 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Faulkton	-	no account filed
June 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Faulkton	-	no account filed
July 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Faulkton	-	no account filed
July 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Faulkton	-	no account filed
September 1997	Hail	Faulkton	-	no account filed
August 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Faulkton	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Faulk 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
Dr. William Edgerton House	0.3 miles	2010
Gov. Frank M. Byrne House	0.3 miles	1992
Faulk County Courthouse	0.4 miles	1993
C.W. Parker Carousel No. 825	0.4 miles	2017
Faulkton American Legion Hall	0.5 miles	2005
Maj. John A. Pickler Homestead	0.7 miles	1973

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 86000245 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Faulk County	All 10 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.