Peder and Helga Tuntland Farmstead

Built in 1890. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.

From the record

“The Peder and Helga Tuntland Farmstead, in Lincoln County, South Dakota roughly 10 miles northwest of Beresford, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994. It included three contributing buildings: a house, its outhouse, and a barn.”
Wikipedia article Peder and Helga Tuntland Farmstead, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 27 National Register listings published here for Lincoln County · listed in 1994 · category: Building · built in 1890.

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 3 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Tuntland, Peder and Helga, Farmstead - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. Roughly, 10 mi. NW of Beresford, Beresford, 57034
When was it listed? March 1994
Category. building
Township. Norway township
When was it built? 1890
National Register reference number. 94000194 - 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

28 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 28 fires within 5 miles of Peder and Helga Tuntland Farmstead between 2000 and 2020, burning about 245 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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	13
Debris and open burning	9
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Arson/incendiarism	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
29 September 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	STEEL
11 September 2000	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Canton Volunteer Fire Department	DENNY GARDNER
24 August 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	SORUM FIRE
8 July 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	KUIPER
16 July 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	HWY 11
15 July 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	HALVORSEN
17 May 2001	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Centerville Volunteer Fire Department	DAVIS OIL
6 April 2020	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	LYKEN

Every fire recorded in Lincoln 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

4 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
Ulrickson Barn	2.8 miles	2005
Norway Center Store	3.1 miles	2003
Mathias Schmid Farm	3.5 miles	2004
Grand Valley Schoolhouse, District No. 12	6.6 miles	1997

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 94000194 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Lincoln 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.