John and Daisy May Livingston Ranch

Built in 1916. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.

From the record

“The John and Daisy May Livingston Ranch, in Harding County, South Dakota near Sorum, South Dakota, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987. The part of the ranch which was listed included two contributing buildings and eight non-contributing ones on 4 acres (1.6 ha).”
Wikipedia article John and Daisy May Livingston Ranch, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 13 National Register listings published here for Harding County · listed in 1987 · category: Building · built in 1916.

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 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Livingston, John and Daisy May, Ranch - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. E of SD 79 on S side of Sorum Rd., Sorum, 57651
When was it listed? April 1987
Category. building
Also known as. Harding and Perkins Counties MRA
Unorganized territory. South Harding
When was it built? 1916
National Register reference number. 87000542 - 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

20 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of John and Daisy May Livingston Ranch between 1999 and 2020, burning about 540 acres in total. 12 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	12
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
7 August 2007	Natural	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
31 August 2007	Natural	1.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
28 August 2001	Equipment and vehicle use	10 acres	Sorum/Reva Volunteer Fire Department	JENSEN
27 August 2000	Natural	1.0 acres	Sorum/Reva Volunteer Fire Department	MILLETT 1
23 August 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
23 August 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	20 acres	Sorum/Reva Volunteer Fire Department	BLAIR
14 August 2000	Natural	4.0 acres	Sorum/Reva Volunteer Fire Department	WAMMEN
11 August 2006	Natural	121 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named

Every fire recorded in Harding County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of John and Daisy May Livingston Ranch: 5 producers, 4 prospects, 1 occurrence. 5 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.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Unnamed Mine	Uranium, Lignite	Producer	Coal
Unnamed Mine	Uranium, Lignite	Producer	Lignite
Unnamed Mine	Uranium, Lignite	Producer	Coal
Unnamed Mine	Uranium, Lignite	Producer	Coal
Unnamed Mine	Uranium, Lignite	Producer	Coal
Cedar Canyon - Thybo Well	Uranium	Occurrence
Finger Buttes Group	Uranium	Prospect
Flat Top Butte	Uranium	Prospect
Lucky Strike Claims	Uranium	Prospect
Ruth Lode	Uranium	Prospect

Every working recorded in Harding 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

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.

Photograph	Property	Distance	Listed
	Axel Johnson Ranch	2.9 miles	1987

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 87000542 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
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.