BlockFrom the record
One of 13 National Register listings published here for Harding County · listed in 1987 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Blake Ranch House
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 1 mi. W of Camp Crook Rd., Gustave, 57717
- When was it listed? April 1987
- Category. building
- Also known as. Harding and Perkins Counties MRA
- Unorganized territory. South Harding
- National Register reference number. 87000534 - 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
13 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Blake Ranch House between 2000 and 2015, burning about 15,190 acres in total. 9 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 | 9 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22 September 2008 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | not named |
| 13 August 2000 | Natural | under an acre | Camp Crook Volunteer Fire Department | BLAKES HAY STACK |
| 1 August 2007 | Natural | 20 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | not named |
| 4 July 2000 | Natural | under an acre | Camp Crook Volunteer Fire Department | MONCUR |
| 31 July 2012 | Natural | 2.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | MOPPIN |
| 28 July 2002 | Natural | under an acre | Miles City Field Office | GAS WELL |
| 28 July 2002 | Natural | under an acre | Miles City Field Office | WHITE CLIF |
| 28 June 2002 | Natural | 2.0 acres | Camp Crook Volunteer Fire Department | DAVIS |
Mines and quarries near this property
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Blake Ranch House: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Uranium. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Twin No.2 | Uranium | Prospect |
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
2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oliver O. Stokes House | 6.9 miles | 1987 | |
| L. W. Shevling Ranch | 7.3 miles | 1987 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 87000534 in Record Group 79. |
| Harding County | All 13 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.