Melchior Ryman Farm

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.

From the record

One of 42 National Register listings published here for Brown County · listed in 1995 · category: Building.

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

The listing

Listed as. Ryman, Melchior, Farm - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 2 mi. W of SD 281, 3 mi. N of Mansfield, Mansfield, 57460
When was it listed? June 1995
Category. building
Also known as. Rural Resources of Brown County MPS
Township. Warner township
National Register reference number. 95000771 - 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

10 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Melchior Ryman Farm between 1999 and 2017, burning about 769 acres in total. None 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	5
Debris and open burning	2
Arson/incendiarism	2
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
30 July 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
22 July 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Sioux Falls Fire Department	I 29 AND 60TH STREET
21 July 2007	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
15 July 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	SHANLEY
1 May 2017	Arson/incendiarism	83 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	FUHRAMAN WPA
1 May 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	50 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	MANSFIELD SLOUGH
27 April 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Brown County	RISTAU WOODS
13 April 2003	Arson/incendiarism	170 acres	Sand Lake National Wildlife Refuge	RYMAN WPA

Every fire recorded in Brown County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Melchior Ryman Farm: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. 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
	Schwab Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Brown 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

1 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
	Modern Woodmen of America Hall	3.0 miles	1995

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 95000771 in Record Group 79.
Brown County	All 42 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.