Jacob D. Goosen Barn

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.

From the record

“Goosen Barn is a historic barn in rural Sully County, South Dakota about 1/2 mile east of Onida on the north side of East Onida Road. Built in 1904, it was built with a Shawver truss roof, a form popular in other areas, but not widely adopted in South Dakota.”
Wikipedia article Jacob D. Goosen Barn, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 3 National Register listings published here for Sully County · listed in 1993 · 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. Goosen, Jacob D., Barn - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. Roughly 0.6 mi. E of Onida, Onida, 57564
When was it listed? February 1993
Category. building
Unorganized territory. East Sully
National Register reference number. 92001853 - 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

54 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 54 fires within 5 miles of Jacob D. Goosen Barn between 2002 and 2017, burning about 1,527 acres in total. 2 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	44
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Debris and open burning	2
Natural	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
4 September 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Sully County	BARBER
29 September 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	50 acres	Sully County	SUTTON BAY
6 August 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	MILLER MATHEWS
5 August 2005	Natural	5.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
25 August 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	HONEY FARM
24 August 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	30 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	LYNN EBERT
24 August 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	BUHLER
14 August 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Sully County	STRICKLAND

Every fire recorded in Sully County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Jacob D. Goosen Barn: 2 producers. All of them still produce. 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.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Sully County Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
	Trumble Pit #1	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Sully County

Storms near this property

60 of 102 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Onida, the town this property stands in, in 102 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 63 hail, 31 thunderstorm wind, 5 tornado, 3 flash flood. 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
September 1999	Flash Flood	Onida	$275,000	no account filed
June 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Onida	-	A personal weather station recorded a wind gust of 70 mph.
August 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Onida	-	Winds were estimated at sixty-five mph by a driver on Highway 83.
May 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Onida	-	Estimated sixty mph winds took a large branch off of a tree.
June 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Onida	-	An estimated seventy-five mph wind uprooted two trees.
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Onida	-	Damaging winds took part of the roof off the bank in Onida, knocked out the power to the city, and downed many trees in and around town.
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Onida	-	A feed wagon was tossed 40 feet by an estimated 90 mph wind.
July 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Onida	-	Damaging thunderstorm winds downed six power poles between Sully Buttes and Onida knocking power out to over 800 homes in and around Onida.
August 2007	Flash Flood	Onida	-	A county road was underwater three miles south of Onida for several hours.
June 2006	Tornado (F0)	Onida	-	A weak tornado touched down briefly in an open area causing no damage.
August 2006	Tornado (F1)	Onida	-	A supercell thunderstorm produced an F1 intensity tornado northeast of Onida. The tornado traveled for 5 miles in Sully county and had a path width of up to 600 yards. The tornado caused significant damage to a farmstead 6 miles east and 4 miles north of Onida. The ground in a harvested sunflower field was heavily scoured. Many large hay bales were scattered about. The tornado finally lifted in an open field 10 miles east northeast to Onida.
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Onida	-	Winds measured over 110 mph caused a lot of damage in and around Onida. Two small planes were flipped and destroyed at the airport with a hanger also destroyed. Also, a 40 by 40 foot garage was destroyed with many trees downed.
July 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Onida	-	Several large tree branches were downed by the high winds.
June 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Onida	-	Wind downed flagpole, and damaged shed and pole barn of an ag-business east of Onida.
August 2004	Hail	Onida	-	Large hail broke many windows and damaged the siding and roofs of most of the outbuildings and the home.
July 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Onida	-	High winds brought down many large tree branches.
June 2003	Tornado (F0)	Onida	-	A tornado touched down in far southern Sully county and moved into northern Hughes county. No damage occurred.
August 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Onida	-	Winds of 90 mph sheared off tens of power poles west of Onida leaving many people without power. The high winds also damaged pole buildings and granaries and overturned several campers at a lake.
August 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Onida	-	Sixty mph winds brought some large tree branches down.
July 1999	Tornado (F0)	Onida	-	A tornado touched down briefly on a farm southeast of Onida. Over half of the roof of a 40 by 45 foot building was torn off and deposited in a tree belt 200 yards to the north. The south wall of this building was caved in and the north wall was pulled out and the overhead door was ripped off. A grain auger was also damaged when it was blown up against a granary. A semi trailer was blown over. About 400 acres of ripe wheat were also flattened and some sunflowers suffered damage as a result of the tornado. Path length and width were estimated.
July 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Onida	-	Thunderstorm winds tore some shingles off a house and barn and also knocked down some very large branches.
August 1993	Tornado (F0)	Onida	-	There were several reports of brief tornado touchdowns with no damage.
June 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Onida	-	no account filed
July 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Onida	-	no account filed
August 2019	Hail	Onida	-	no account filed
May 2018	Hail	Onida	-	no account filed
September 2018	Hail	Onida	-	no account filed
August 2018	Hail	Onida	-	no account filed
July 2016	Hail	Onida	-	no account filed
July 2016	Hail	Onida	-	no account filed
June 2015	Hail	Onida	-	no account filed
September 2015	Hail	Onida	-	no account filed
September 2015	Hail	Onida	-	no account filed
August 2011	Hail	Onida	-	no account filed
July 2009	Flash Flood	Onida	-	no account filed
August 2009	Hail	Onida	-	no account filed
August 2009	Hail	Onida	-	no account filed
July 2008	Hail	Onida	-	no account filed
April 2007	Hail	Onida	-	no account filed
June 2007	Hail	Onida	-	no account filed
June 2007	Hail	Onida	-	no account filed
June 2007	Hail	Onida	-	no account filed
June 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Onida	-	no account filed
June 2007	Hail	Onida	-	no account filed
May 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Onida	-	no account filed
May 2006	Hail	Onida	-	no account filed
May 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Onida	-	no account filed
May 2006	Hail	Onida	-	no account filed
June 2006	Hail	Onida	-	no account filed
June 2006	Hail	Onida	-	no account filed
August 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Onida	-	no account filed
August 2006	Hail	Onida	-	no account filed
August 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Onida	-	no account filed
August 2006	Hail	Onida	-	no account filed
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Onida	-	no account filed
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Onida	-	no account filed
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Onida	-	no account filed
May 2005	Hail	Onida	-	no account filed
September 2005	Hail	Onida	-	no account filed
June 2004	Hail	Onida	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sully 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
	L. E. Snyder House	2.1 miles	1993
	Sully County Courthouse	2.1 miles	2001

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 92001853 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Sully County	All 3 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.
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.