Governor Leslie Jensen House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.

From the record

“The Governor Leslie Jensen House, at 309 S. Fifth St. in Hot Springs, South Dakota, was built in 1899 for Christian Jensen, and it was the longtime home of Christian's son and South Dakota's 15th governor Leslie Jensen (1892-1964).”
Wikipedia article Governor Leslie Jensen House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 12 National Register listings published here for Fall River 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 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Jensen, Governor Leslie, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 309 S. Fifth St., Hot Spring, 57747
When was it listed? September 1987
Category. building
City. Hot Springs city
Architectural style. Queen Anne style architecture in the United States
National Register reference number. 87001731 - 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

153 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 153 fires within 5 miles of Governor Leslie Jensen House between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,240 acres in total. 75 started naturally. 2 were 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	75
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	31
Debris and open burning	22
Equipment and vehicle use	11
Other causes	4
Recreation and ceremony	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Arson/incendiarism	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Smoking	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
8 September 2002	Natural	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	HAGEN CANYON 2
7 September 2003	Natural	under an acre	Black Hills National Forest	FLY AWAY
7 September 2002	Natural	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	TANK
7 September 2002	Natural	2.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	BATTLE MT
5 September 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	KOA
5 September 2018	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	CAMPGROUND
5 September 2002	Natural	5.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	ARGYLE RD
25 September 2010	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	BALE

Every fire recorded in Fall River 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 Governor Leslie Jensen House: 11 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Gypsum-Anhydrite, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Flagstone. 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
Diana A	Uranium	Past Producer
Burke Quarry	Flagstone	Past Producer
Evans Quarry	Flagstone	Past Producer
Burke Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer	1905
Evans Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer	1892, 1942
Fall River County Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Hills Material Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Hot Springs City Land Fill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Romey Sand & Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Grant Robinson Mine	Gypsum-Anhydrite	Past Producer	1893

Every working recorded in Fall River 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
Petty House	0.3 miles	1999
Hot Springs Historic District	0.5 miles	2018
Hot Springs High School	0.6 miles	1980
Battle Mountain Sanitarium, National Home For Disabled Volunteer Soldiers	0.7 miles	2011
Log Cabin Tourist Camp	1.1 miles	2004
Phillip Wesch House	1.2 miles	1984

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 87001731 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Fall River County	All 12 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.