BlockFrom the record
One of 27 National Register listings published here for Meade County · listed in 1990 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
H O Ranch Log House
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 3 mi. W of Marcus, Marcus, 57792
- When was it listed? June 1990
- Category. building
- Unorganized territory. Belle Fourche-Cheyenne Valleys
- National Register reference number. 90000954 - 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
16 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of H O Ranch Log House between 2000 and 2017, burning about 4,710 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 7 |
| Natural | 5 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 2011 | Smoking | 15 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | CAMPTON |
| 12 September 2000 | Natural | under an acre | Enning Volunteer Fire Department | KING |
| 3 August 2006 | Natural | 2,000 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | RED OWL |
| 3 August 2006 | Natural | 2.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | not named |
| 1 August 2002 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1,300 acres | Opal Volunteer Fire Department | WICKS |
| 1 August 2002 | Arson/incendiarism | 870 acres | Cheyenne River Agency | MARCU |
| 6 July 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | SCHULTZ |
| 31 July 2002 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 250 acres | Opal Volunteer Fire Department | SIMON/JORDAN |
Storms near this property
14 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Marcus, the town this property stands in, in 14 storm reports between 1997 and 2020: 8 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Marcus | $3,000 | Roofs were blown off several buildings. |
| June 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Marcus | - | Large ash tree was snapped in half by the wind. |
| June 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Marcus | - | Wind gusts were estimated at 60 mph. |
| October 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Marcus | - | Wind gusts were estimated at 60 mph. |
| July 2020 | Hail | Marcus | - | no account filed |
| June 2018 | Hail | Marcus | - | no account filed |
| June 2015 | Hail | Marcus | - | no account filed |
| October 2011 | Hail | Marcus | - | no account filed |
| May 2010 | Hail | Marcus | - | no account filed |
| June 2007 | Hail | Marcus | - | no account filed |
| June 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Marcus | - | no account filed |
| July 2007 | Hail | Marcus | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Marcus | - | no account filed |
| July 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Marcus | - | no account filed |
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 90000954 in Record Group 79. |
| Meade County | All 27 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.