Thomas J. Veal Ranch

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.

From the record

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

Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Listed as. Veal, Thomas J., Ranch - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 7 mi. SE of jct. of SD 20 and SD 73, Chance, 57644
When was it listed? April 1987
Category. building
Also known as. Harding and Perkins Counties MRA
Township. Chance township
National Register reference number. 87000558 - 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

9 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Thomas J. Veal Ranch between 2001 and 2012, burning about 164 acres in total. 3 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	3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Debris and open burning	2

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
6 August 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
6 August 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	100 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
3 August 2009	Natural	5.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
26 July 2008	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
29 June 2012	Natural	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	TREE
21 June 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	30 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	ERIC ARNESON
14 June 2012	Natural	1.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	USTA BE A TREE
12 June 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	20 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	HAM

Every fire 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 87000558 in Record Group 79.
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.
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.