Harding Schoolhouse

Built in 1931. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.

From the record

“The Harding Schoolhouse, in Corson County, South Dakota near Trail City, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.”
Wikipedia article Harding Schoolhouse, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 4 National Register listings published here for Corson County · listed in 1989 · category: Building · built in 1931.

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.
Address. 5.5 mi. NW of Trail City, Trail City, 57657
When was it listed? July 1989
Category. building
Unorganized territory. East Corson
When was it built? 1931
National Register reference number. 89000832 - 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

26 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 26 fires within 5 miles of Harding Schoolhouse between 1997 and 2018, burning about 602 acres in total. 5 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
Equipment and vehicle use	11
Natural	5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Arson/incendiarism	2
Debris and open burning	1
Other causes	1
Fireworks	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
30 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Standing Rock Agency	BIEBER
30 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Standing Rock Agency	HIGHWAY 63
30 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Standing Rock Agency	R. JOHNSON
13 September 1997	Equipment and vehicle use	10 acres	Standing Rock Agency	GOOD SHEPA
30 August 2000	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Standing Rock Agency	SPRINGLK2
29 August 2000	Equipment and vehicle use	300 acres	Standing Rock Agency	SPRINGLAKE
28 August 2001	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Standing Rock Agency	TRLCTYCHRC
21 August 2013	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Standing Rock Agency	RICK 2

Every fire recorded in Corson 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 89000832 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Corson County	All 4 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.