Albert S. Piper Homestead Claim Shanty

Built in 1882. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.

From the record

“Piper Homestead Claim Shanty is a structure located near the unincorporated community of Carpenter, in Beadle County, South Dakota. Built in 1882, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.”
Wikipedia article Albert S. Piper Homestead Claim Shanty, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 18 National Register listings published here for Beadle County · listed in 1998 · category: Building · built in 1882.

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. Piper, Albert S., Homestead Claim Shanty - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 2 mi. N of Lake Byron, Carpenter, 57322
When was it listed? August 1998
Category. building
Township. Lake Byron township
When was it built? 1882
National Register reference number. 98001126 - 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

1 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Albert S. Piper Homestead Claim Shanty in 1999, burning under an acre 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
Arson/incendiarism	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
26 October 1999	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Huron Volunteer Fire Dept.	HURON RURAL

Every fire recorded in Beadle 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
	Milford Hutterite Colony	4.4 miles	1982

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 98001126 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Beadle County	All 18 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.