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Photograph of Laurens Polygonal Hog House
Photograph by JERRYE AND ROY KLOTZ MD, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Laurens Polygonal Hog House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.

From the record

“The Laurens Polygonal Hog House is a historic farm outbuilding in Dewey County, South Dakota. It is located northeast of Eagle Butte, on the east side of South Dakota Highway 63, about 1 mile (1.6 km) north of its junction with United States Route 212.”

Wikipedia article Laurens Polygonal Hog House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 5 National Register listings published here for Dewey County · listed in 1995 · 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.
  • Address. SD 63, 1 mi. N of US 212, Eagle Butte, 57625
  • When was it listed? December 1995
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. South Dakota's Round and Polygonal Barns and Pavilions MPS
  • Unorganized territory. South Dewey
  • National Register reference number. 95001468 - 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

737 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 737 fires within 5 miles of Laurens Polygonal Hog House between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,570 acres in total. 36 started naturally. 40 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
Fireworks200
Misuse of fire by a minor163
Missing data/not specified/undetermined121
Equipment and vehicle use84
Arson/incendiarism40
Natural36
Debris and open burning30
Power generation/transmission/distribution20
Other causes17
Recreation and ceremony14
Smoking12

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 September 2002Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreCheyenne River AgencyRANGERFIRE
9 September 1998Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreCheyenne River AgencyHOSPITALCA
8 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCheyenne River AgencyBINGO
7 September 2002Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreCheyenne River AgencyI.H.S.
6 September 2016Other causesunder an acreCheyenne River AgencyTREE 2
6 September 2006Equipment and vehicle use3.1 acresCheyenne River AgencyMIKES
6 September 2003Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreCheyenne River AgencyPOWWOW
5 September 2011Naturalunder an acreCheyenne River AgencyWOMACK

Every fire recorded in Dewey County

Storms near this property

49 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Eagle Butte, the town this property stands in, in 49 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 27 hail, 19 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2025Thunderstorm WindEagle Butte-A peak measured gust of 62 mph was recorded on a personal weather station 14 miles south of Parade.
September 2025FloodEagle Butte-Tribal Officials report that the culvert on BIA Rt 8 has partly washed out. Travel through the area was difficult.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindEagle Butte-Estimated eighty mph winds tipped a mobile home over.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindEagle Butte-Sixty mph winds were estimated.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindEagle Butte-Estimated ninety mph winds destroyed an empty trailer along with tipping another one over. A delivery truck was also tipped over and a mobile home was destroyed. A couple buildings had parts of their roofs blown off with many trees damaged or uprooted. Some power lines were also downed.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindEagle Butte-Sixty mph winds downed several tree branches along with knocking a grill off the deck.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindEagle Butte-Sixty mph winds were estimated by the public.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindEagle Butte-Sixty mph winds were estimated.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindEagle Butte-Sixty mph winds were estimated north of Eagle Butte.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindEagle Butte-Seventy mph winds were estimated in Eagle Butte.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindEagle Butte-Sixty mph winds were estimated.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindEagle Butte-One hundred mph winds flattened a pole barn, toppled and severely damaged several grain bins, and shattered the glass out of a tractor.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindEagle Butte-One hundred mph winds flattened a pole barn and blew two horse trailers into a tractor. The horse trailers and the tractor were damaged.
June 2009Flash FloodEagle Butte-Heavy rain flooded several roads in and around Eagle Butte.
June 2008Tornado (EF0)Eagle Butte-A third tornado touched down briefly in Dewey county. No damage was reported.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindEagle Butte-Eighty mph winds downed several trees and damaged some structures. A mobile home was rolled and destroyed.
May 2003HailEagle Butte-Dime size hail fell continuously for an hour.
August 2003Thunderstorm WindEagle Butte-Eighty mph winds destroyed a mobile home in Eagle Butte, downed several trees, power lines and poles, and scattered lawn and play equipment. Eagle Butte was without power for around nine hours.
September 1997HailEagle Butte-Large hail dented and broke automobile windshields.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindEagle Butte-no account filed
August 2020HailEagle Butte-no account filed
August 2020HailEagle Butte-no account filed
July 2019Thunderstorm WindEagle Butte-no account filed
July 2018Thunderstorm WindEagle Butte-no account filed
June 2018HailEagle Butte-no account filed
June 2018HailEagle Butte-no account filed
July 2017Thunderstorm WindEagle Butte-no account filed
July 2016HailEagle Butte-no account filed
July 2016HailEagle Butte-no account filed
July 2016HailEagle Butte-no account filed
May 2013HailEagle Butte-no account filed
July 2010HailEagle Butte-no account filed
May 2009HailEagle Butte-no account filed
June 2009HailEagle Butte-no account filed
June 2009HailEagle Butte-no account filed
June 2009HailEagle Butte-no account filed
June 2009HailEagle Butte-no account filed
June 2009HailEagle Butte-no account filed
June 2009HailEagle Butte-no account filed
May 2007HailEagle Butte-no account filed
July 2007Thunderstorm WindEagle Butte-no account filed
July 2003HailEagle Butte-no account filed
July 2003HailEagle Butte-no account filed
July 2001HailEagle Butte-no account filed
June 2000HailEagle Butte-no account filed
August 2000HailEagle Butte-no account filed
August 2000HailEagle Butte-no account filed
June 1997HailEagle Butte-no account filed
August 1995HailEagle Butte-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Dewey 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 recordThe nomination case file for reference 95001468 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Dewey CountyAll 5 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.