Mathias Merkwan Rubblestone Barn

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.

From the record

“The Mathias Merkwan Rubblestone Barn is a historic barn located near Tabor, South Dakota, United States. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on July 6, 1987, as part of a "Thematic Nomination of Czech Folk Architecture of Southeastern South Dakota".”
Wikipedia article Mathias Merkwan Rubblestone Barn, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 78 National Register listings published here for Yankton County · listed in 1987 · category: Building.

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.
Listed as. Merkwan, Mathias, Rubblestone Barn - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. E of Tabor, Tabor, 57063
When was it listed? July 1987
Category. building
Also known as. Czech Folk Architecture in Southeastern South Dakota MRA
Unorganized territory. West Yankton
National Register reference number. 87001055 - 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

24 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 24 fires within 5 miles of Mathias Merkwan Rubblestone Barn between 2000 and 2014, burning about 416 acres in total. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	18
Debris and open burning	4
Equipment and vehicle use	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
25 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	PETERSEN
6 August 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	KLOUCEK
29 August 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	BERAN
28 August 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	LOST FIRE3
24 August 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	KOTALIK
10 August 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	NEDVED
10 July 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	SESTAK
4 April 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	FOX HOLE FIRE #2

Every fire recorded in Yankton County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 13 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Mathias Merkwan Rubblestone Barn: 12 past producers, 1 unknown. 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Adolph Sestak Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
E.Pechous Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
George Vyborny Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
J. Kocer Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Yankton 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

6 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Frank Svatos Rubblestone Barn	1.0 miles	1987
Stribral Homestead and Farmstead	2.4 miles	1980
Old Catholic Church	3.5 miles	1980
Henjna Farmstead	3.6 miles	1980
Walloch Farmstead	4.1 miles	1980
Frantisek Pechan Log House	5.3 miles	1987

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 87001055 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Yankton County	All 78 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.