Charles A. Barber Farmstead

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.

From the record

“Barber Farmstead is a historic farmstead outside Lily, South Dakota. It consists of a complex of twelve buildings, including a house which was built in 1900 by the original homesteader, Charles Barber.”
Wikipedia article Charles A. Barber Farmstead, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 13 National Register listings published here for Day County · listed in 1988 · category: District.

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

The listing

Listed as. Barber, Charles A., Farmstead - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 1/4 mi. W of Lily, Lily, 57274
When was it listed? February 1988
Category. district
Township. York township
National Register reference number. 88000048 - 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.

Storms near this property

17 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lily, the town this property stands in, in 17 storm reports between 1997 and 2022: 11 hail, 6 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 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Lily	-	The wind was recorded by a personal weather station.
August 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Lily	-	Sixty-five mph winds downed many large tree limbs along with damaging some crops.
July 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Lily	-	An estimated wind gust of 60 mph was reported.
August 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Lily	-	Strong thunderstorm winds blew down a machine shed.
May 2018	Hail	Lily	-	no account filed
June 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Lily	-	no account filed
August 2012	Hail	Lily	-	no account filed
June 2009	Hail	Lily	-	no account filed
September 2007	Hail	Lily	-	no account filed
September 2007	Hail	Lily	-	no account filed
September 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Lily	-	no account filed
June 2006	Hail	Lily	-	no account filed
June 2006	Hail	Lily	-	no account filed
June 2006	Hail	Lily	-	no account filed
May 2005	Hail	Lily	-	no account filed
May 2004	Hail	Lily	-	no account filed
July 1997	Hail	Lily	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Day 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

2 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
	Charles A. Barber Farmstead (Boundary Increase)	under 500 feet	1996
	James and Wilhelmina Anderson House	0.6 miles	2020

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 88000048 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Day 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.
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.