Drees Brothers General Mechandise

Built in 1910. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.

From the record

One of 5 National Register listings published here for Dewey County · listed in 1998 · category: Building · built in 1910.

Sources: 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. 812 Main St., Timber Lake, 57656
When was it listed? May 1998
Category. building
Unorganized territory. North Dewey
When was it built? 1910
National Register reference number. 98000445 - 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

55 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 55 fires within 5 miles of Drees Brothers General Mechandise between 1993 and 2019, burning about 1,567 acres in total. 18 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
Natural	18
Equipment and vehicle use	17
Debris and open burning	5
Fireworks	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Smoking	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Other causes	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
7 September 2017	Power generation/transmission/distribution	1.4 acres	Cheyenne River Agency	SLIM
8 August 2016	Misuse of fire by a minor	2.0 acres	Standing Rock Agency	NORTH BULLHEAD
5 August 2007	Other causes	under an acre	Cheyenne River Agency	KRAFT
23 August 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Cheyenne River Agency	SHOE - M
21 August 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	3.5 acres	Cheyenne River Agency	STAND DOWN
2 August 2006	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
13 August 2014	Equipment and vehicle use	1.5 acres	Cheyenne River Agency	BIEGLER
11 August 2018	Other causes	under an acre	Cheyenne River Agency	FOX DEN

Every fire recorded in Dewey County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Drees Brothers General Mechandise: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
John Beer Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Lamb Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Swede Marshall Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Dewey County

Storms near this property

56 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Timber Lake, the town this property stands in, in 56 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 31 hail, 23 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 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
July 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Timber lake	$5,000	no account filed
August 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Timber Lake	-	Sixty mph winds were estimated.
July 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Timber Lake	-	Sixty mph winds were estimated.
July 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Timber Lake	-	Sixty-five mph winds caused tree branches to fall on some homes and cars causing some damage.
March 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Timber Lake	-	A seventy-four mph wind gust measured at the Timber Lake SDSU Observation site. Several trees were toppled within the town of Timber Lake.
August 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Timber Lake	-	Winds up to 80 mph severely damaged a barn, downed some power poles along with many trees and branches in and around Timber Lake. Also, several vehicles and many acres of crops were damaged by the hail and high winds. The Little Moreau Elk Lodge roof was damaged and some windows were broken.
August 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Timber Lake	-	Large branches were downed by the high winds.
June 1997	Tornado (F0)	Timber Lake	-	A brief touchdown of a weak narrow path tornado occurred 1 mile north of Timber Lake. Path length and width were estimated.
October 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Timber Lake	-	A mobile home being pulled by a semi was rolled and completely destroyed. Some homes and farms in the vicinity also sustained damage from the strong straight line winds. A porch attached to a trailer home was destroyed, a shed lost it's roof, and old barns and grain bins were also damaged. The strong winds also lifted some shingles on a home, blew down power lines and ripped a satellite dish completely off it's supports.
June 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Timber Lake	-	no account filed
July 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Timber Lake	-	no account filed
July 2025	Hail	Timber Lake	-	no account filed
May 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Timber Lake	-	no account filed
July 2022	Hail	Timber Lake	-	no account filed
August 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Timber Lake	-	no account filed
August 2021	Hail	Timber Lake	-	no account filed
June 2021	Hail	Timber Lake	-	no account filed
June 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Timber Lake	-	no account filed
June 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Timber Lake	-	no account filed
June 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Timber Lake	-	no account filed
August 2020	Hail	Timber Lake	-	no account filed
August 2020	Hail	Timber Lake	-	no account filed
August 2020	Hail	Timber Lake	-	no account filed
July 2018	Hail	Timber Lake	-	no account filed
May 2013	Hail	Timber Lake	-	no account filed
August 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Timber Lake	-	no account filed
February 2009	Flood	Timber Lake	-	no account filed
June 2008	Hail	Timber Lake	-	no account filed
June 2008	Hail	Timber Lake	-	no account filed
June 2008	Hail	Timber Lake	-	no account filed
June 2008	Hail	Timber Lake	-	no account filed
August 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Timber Lake	-	no account filed
August 2008	Hail	Timber Lake	-	no account filed
June 2007	Hail	Timber Lake	-	no account filed
July 2006	Hail	Timber Lake	-	no account filed
July 2005	Hail	Timber Lake	-	no account filed
August 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Timber Lake	-	no account filed
August 2004	Hail	Timber Lake	-	no account filed
August 2004	Hail	Timber Lake	-	no account filed
August 2004	Hail	Timber Lake	-	no account filed
August 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Timber Lake	-	no account filed
August 2004	Hail	Timber Lake	-	no account filed
July 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Timber Lake	-	no account filed
June 2002	Hail	Timber Lake	-	no account filed
August 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Timber Lake	-	no account filed
August 2002	Hail	Timber Lake	-	no account filed
August 2002	Hail	Timber Lake	-	no account filed
July 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Timber Lake	-	no account filed
June 2000	Hail	Timber Lake	-	no account filed
June 2000	Hail	Timber Lake	-	no account filed
August 1998	Hail	Timber Lake	-	no account filed
May 1996	Hail	Timber Lake	-	no account filed
June 1996	Hail	Timber Lake	-	no account filed
July 1995	Hail	Timber Lake	-	no account filed
July 1995	Hail	Timber Lake	-	no account filed
July 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Timber Lake	-	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 record	The nomination case file for reference 98000445 in Record Group 79.
Dewey County	All 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.
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.