Augustus and Augusta Gerhart House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.

From the record

“The Augustus and Augusta Gerhart House is a historic house at 321 Iowa Street in Highmore, South Dakota, United States. It is a two-story wood-frame structure, built in 1889 by Christina Grant.”
Wikipedia article Augustus and Augusta Gerhart House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 3 National Register listings published here for Hyde County · listed in 1997 · 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. Gerhart, Augustus and Augusta, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 321 Iowa St., Highmore, 57345
When was it listed? September 1997
Category. building
Unorganized territory. Central Hyde
National Register reference number. 97001106 - 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

22 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 22 fires within 5 miles of Augustus and Augusta Gerhart House between 1999 and 2016, burning about 537 acres in total. 6 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
Equipment and vehicle use	10
Natural	6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6

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
26 September 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
2 September 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
5 August 2009	Natural	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
5 August 2001	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Highmore Volunteer Fire Department	STEPHENSON
3 August 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	BAWDON
3 August 2009	Natural	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
30 July 2016	Natural	3.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	WEST LIGHTNING
30 July 2016	Natural	8.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	EAST LIGHTNING

Every fire recorded in Hyde County

Storms near this property

60 of 86 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Highmore, the town this property stands in, in 86 storm reports between 1993 and 2024: 40 thunderstorm wind, 40 hail, 4 flash flood, 2 tornado. 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
July 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Highmore	$10,000	A trained spotter reported a roof blown off of a home.
August 2005	Flash Flood	Highmore	$5,000	no account filed
June 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Highmore	$500	A few small trees were blown down.
June 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Highmore	-	Thunderstorm winds ripped the roof off a pole barn. Additionally, several tree limbs were down in the same area.
June 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Highmore	-	A privacy fence was blown over, and a large window was broken by an object that had become a projectile in the severe wind. The timing of the wind was estimated based on radar.
August 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Highmore	-	Estimated seventy mph winds blew the roof off a shop.
July 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Highmore	-	A large tree was downed by estimated seventy mph winds.
May 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Highmore	-	Seventy mph winds caused significant damage to the crow's nest and the bleachers at the football field along with downing several large trees in Highmore. Also, the destruction of a liquid fertilizer pump shed caused damage to pipes creating a 5000 gallon plus chemical spill.
July 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Highmore	-	Seventy mph winds dented multiple grain bins along with slightly pulling them from their base.
July 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Highmore	-	The roof on a metal machine shed was lost due to seventy mph winds.
July 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Highmore	-	Several trees along with many large tree branches were downed in Highmore. There was also some power outages from the trees falling onto the lines.
July 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Highmore	-	Many large tree branches were downed in Highmore.
July 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Highmore	-	Sixty mph winds downed several tree branches in Highmore.
August 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Highmore	-	Seventy to 80 mph winds brought down several large trees along with many large tree branches in and around Highmore. The strong winds also tipped over a semi, a gravity wagon, and a grain auger along with damaging several fences. There were also power outages in Highmore.
June 2007	Flash Flood	Highmore	-	Several roads were flooded in Highmore.
August 2007	Flash Flood	Highmore	-	Heavy rains of 4 to 6 inches caused flash flooding of roads in and around Highmore. Some homes also received water in their basements.
August 2006	Tornado (F0)	Highmore	-	A supercell thunderstorm continued on its track to the southeast producing another weak tornado north of Highmore. The tornado crossed highway 14. No damage occurred with this tornado.
July 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Highmore	-	Seventy mph winds took down branches and a few trees in Highmore. One tree took out a power line and fell on a car.
August 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Highmore	-	High winds downed many branches and several trees.
July 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Highmore	-	Sixty mph winds blew the doors off of a barn.
June 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Highmore	-	Seventy mph winds downed many tree limbs near Highmore.
July 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Highmore	-	Winds over 60 mph brought some trees and branches down in Highmore.
August 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Highmore	-	Seventy mph winds brought down several trees.
June 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Highmore	-	Winds gusting to 65 mph caused damage to several trees in Highmore. One branch took down a power line.
July 1998	Hail	Highmore	-	Golfball size hail dented the pickup truck of the spotter while on Highway 47.
June 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Highmore	-	Winds gusting to 73 mph did extensive damage to trees throughout the community.
June 2020	Hail	Highmore	-	no account filed
June 2020	Hail	Highmore	-	no account filed
June 2020	Hail	Highmore	-	no account filed
June 2019	Hail	Highmore	-	no account filed
June 2019	Hail	Highmore	-	no account filed
June 2019	Hail	Highmore	-	no account filed
August 2019	Hail	Highmore	-	no account filed
May 2016	Hail	Highmore	-	no account filed
June 2013	Hail	Highmore	-	no account filed
September 2012	Hail	Highmore	-	no account filed
May 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Highmore	-	no account filed
July 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Highmore	-	no account filed
August 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Highmore	-	no account filed
July 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Highmore	-	no account filed
July 2008	Hail	Highmore	-	no account filed
August 2008	Hail	Highmore	-	no account filed
August 2008	Hail	Highmore	-	no account filed
June 2007	Hail	Highmore	-	no account filed
May 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Highmore	-	no account filed
May 2006	Hail	Highmore	-	no account filed
June 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Highmore	-	no account filed
June 2006	Hail	Highmore	-	no account filed
August 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Highmore	-	no account filed
August 2006	Hail	Highmore	-	no account filed
August 2006	Hail	Highmore	-	no account filed
August 2006	Hail	Highmore	-	no account filed
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Highmore	-	no account filed
July 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Highmore	-	no account filed
September 2005	Hail	Highmore	-	no account filed
September 2005	Hail	Highmore	-	no account filed
September 2005	Hail	Highmore	-	no account filed
June 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Highmore	-	no account filed
June 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Highmore	-	no account filed
June 2003	Hail	Highmore	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Hyde 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
	Hyde County Courthouse	0.1 miles	1978
	Hyde County Memorial Auditorium	0.2 miles	2018

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 97001106 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Hyde 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.
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.