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Beaver Crossing, South Dakota

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the South Lawrence unorganized territory. It lies in ZIP code area 57783. It stands on Potato Creek. The Survey maps it on the Tinton quadrangle.

Beaver Crossing within Lawrence County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 18 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.

Fires near this place

100 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 100 fires within 5 miles of Beaver Crossing between 1992 and 2020, burning about 428 acres in total. 39 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
Natural39
Recreation and ceremony32
Debris and open burning12
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Equipment and vehicle use4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Smoking1
Arson/incendiarism1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Fireworks1
Firearms and explosives use1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
5 September 2016Naturalunder an acreBlack Hills National ForestBIG SPRING
5 September 1995Naturalunder an acreBlack Hills National ForestFILLMORE
3 September 2011Naturalunder an acreBlack Hills National ForestPOLE CABIN
27 September 2007Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreBlack Hills National ForestDAISY
2 September 2000Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreBlack Hills National ForestNORBERT
18 September 1999Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreBlack Hills National ForestX
12 September 2015Arson/incendiarismunder an acreBlack Hills National ForestBALDY
12 September 2005Naturalunder an acreBlack Hills National ForestMILL CREEK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lawrence County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 47 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 47 workings within 5 miles of Beaver Crossing: 20 past producers, 17 prospects, 5 occurrences, 3 unknowns. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Tin, Gold, Tin, Niobium (Columbium), Silver. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Black Hills Tin CompanyTin, Tantalum, Lithium, Gold, Niobium (Columbium)Past Producer1876
Black Hills Tin CompanyTin, Gold, Lithium, TantalumProducer
Bull HillStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
Giant-VolneyTin, Lithium, TantalumUnknown
Giant-Volney MineTantalum, Lithium, Niobium (Columbium), Feldspar, TinPast ProducerAmblygonite, Cassiterite, Columbite, Feldspar, Lithiophilite, Spodumene, Tantalite
Giant-Volney PegmatiteLithium, Tantalum, Tin, Niobium (Columbium)Past Producer1876, 1903
Keenan PropertiesTin, Tantalum, Niobium (Columbium), Tungsten, LithiumProducerSpodumene
Keenan PropertiesGold, Tin, Tungsten, TantalumPast Producer
Keenan Properties PlacerGold, Tungsten, Tin, TantalumPast Producer1876
Lafayette No 2Tantalum, TinProspect1928

Every working recorded in Lawrence 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Tinton2.4 miles18
Savoy4.4 miles18
Victoria5.2 miles19
Dacy (historical)5.4 miles18
Maurice5.7 miles19
Preston6.4 miles18
Ragged Top (historical)6.5 miles18
Carbonate (historical)7.3 miles20

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.

Wikidata item Q4878047The 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 1261246. 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.