Foster Ranch House

Built in 1918. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.

From the record

“The Foster Ranch House, near Chance, South Dakota, was built in 1918. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.”
Wikipedia article Foster Ranch House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 19 National Register listings published here for Perkins County · listed in 1987 · category: Building · built in 1918.

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.
Address. 4 mi. E of SD 79, Chance, 57644
When was it listed? April 1987
Category. building
Also known as. Harding and Perkins Counties MRA
Township. Foster township
When was it built? 1918
National Register reference number. 87000557 - 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

5 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Foster Ranch House between 2000 and 2007, burning about 70 acres in total. 2 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	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2
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
13 August 2000	Natural	40 acres	Glad Valley Volunteer Fire Department	HARTMEN
26 June 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	7.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
26 June 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	20 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
16 June 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
14 May 2006	Natural	2.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named

Every fire recorded in Perkins County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Foster Ranch House: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
	Sand and Gravel	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Perkins County

Storms near this property

1 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Chance, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 2005: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Chance	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Perkins 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 87000557 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Perkins County	All 19 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.
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.