Badnation, South Dakota

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Bad Nation Township. It lies in ZIP code area 57585. The Survey maps it on the Badnation quadrangle.

Badnation within Mellette County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

1951 USGS Badnation quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1955 USGS Martin quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Martin quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS White River quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

15 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Badnation between 1992 and 2017, burning about 605 acres in total. 7 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	7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Debris and open burning	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
6 August 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	100 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	BAD NATION GRAVEL PIT
5 August 2000	Natural	50 acres	Winner Volunteer Fire Department	KYLE MOELLER
4 August 2000	Misuse of fire by a minor	3.0 acres	Rosebud Agency	560
29 August 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	60 acres	Rosebud Agency	BAPTIST
26 August 1996	Equipment and vehicle use	50 acres	Rosebud Agency	WESLEY
6 July 2017	Natural	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	KJERSTAD LIGHTNING
20 July 2006	Natural	43 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
17 July 2008	Natural	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named

Every fire recorded in Mellette County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Badnation: 5 past producers. None of them still produces. 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
Pit No 5	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Pit No 6	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Pit No 8	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Pit No 9	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Rosebud Sioux Pit Ref 2070	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Mellette County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Wood	12.1 miles	5
Mosher	13.2 miles	5
White River	20.7 miles	6
Cedar Butte	34.8 miles	5
Corn Creek	44.5 miles	5
Norris	45.5 miles	5

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on Badnation	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q23709325	The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1260977. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.