Calle Nissen Johnsen Farm

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.

From the record

One of 44 National Register listings published here for Clay County · listed in 1999 · category: District.

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

The listing

Listed as. Johnsen, Calle Nissen, Farm - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 31494 453rd Ave., Gayville, 57031
When was it listed? December 1999
Category. district
Township. Meckling township
National Register reference number. 99001581 - 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

17 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Calle Nissen Johnsen Farm between 2002 and 2020, burning about 18 acres 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10
Debris and open burning	2
Smoking	2
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Arson/incendiarism	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
9 August 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	MEDIAN I
1 August 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
3 July 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	SONOMA RD.
28 July 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Vermillion Volunteer Fire Department	EMMICK
14 July 2006	Smoking	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
25 May 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	SMOKING BUTT
22 May 2014	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	WEST HWY 12 - ARF10
18 May 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	454TH

Every fire recorded in Clay 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

4 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Jens N. and Anna Junker Farmstead	1.2 miles	1988
Lincoln School #12	2.2 miles	2000
William Andre House	2.5 miles	2002
South Dakota Department of Transportation Bridge No. 14-088-170	7.5 miles	2000

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 99001581 in Record Group 79.
Clay County	All 44 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.