Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.
From the record
“Axel Johnson Ranch, on Sorum Road about 3 miles (4.8 km) east of South Dakota Highway 79, about 9 miles (14 km) south of Reva, South Dakota, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987. The listing included five contributing buildings and two contributing structures.”
Wikipedia article Axel Johnson Ranch, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 13 National Register listings published here for Harding County · listed in 1987 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.87000541- 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
26 since 1999
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 26 fires within 5 miles of Axel Johnson Ranch
between 1999 and 2020, burning about 686 acres in total. 21 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
21
Equipment and vehicle use
4
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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
3 workings within 5 miles of Axel Johnson Ranch: 2 producers, 1 prospect.
2 still produce. What was taken out: Uranium, Lignite. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Reva, the town this property stands in, in 106 storm reports between 1999 and 2025: 54 hail, 47 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 2 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.
Three to five inches of rain caused significant flooding along Alkali Creek, Rabbit Creek, and the South Fork of the Moreau River and their tributaries. Several roads were flooded, including Jefferson Road southeast of Reva, Harding Road, and Camp Crook Road.
A tornado touched down west of the Slim Buttes in eastern Harding County and tracked eastward, dissapating prior to reaching SD Highway 79. Trees and a semi-trailer were blown over at a ranch west of the Slim Buttes. A rancher reported trees snapped along Jones Creek east of the Slim Buttes.
Minor flooding occurred along the South Fork of the Grand River, the North Fork of the Moreau River, the South Fork of the Moreau River, Sand Creek, and their tributaries.
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 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.
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.
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