Belle Fourche, South Dakota

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• Butte County

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 12 of 20 shown

• Belle Fourche Band Shelllisted 2016
• Belle Fourche Commercial Historic Districtlisted 1982
• Charles Bolles Houselisted 1982
• Butte County Courthouse amd Historic Jail Buildinglisted 1998
• First Congregational United Church of Christlisted 2013
• Thomas Haskins Gay Houselisted 1982
• Fred S. Harris Houselisted 1988
• Lincoln Schoollisted 2001
• John Aaron Scotney Houselisted 1978
• Charles and Eleanor Small Houselisted 1991
• Tri State Bakerylisted 1993
• Wide Awake Grocery Buildinglisted 1978

Every listing in Butte County

Belle Fourche grew from 5,594 to 5,617 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

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.

• 1907 USGS Belle Fourche quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
• 1907 USGS Redwater quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1953 USGS Rapid City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1954 USGS Belle Fourche quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
• 1957 USGS Rapid City quadrangle1:250000
• 1958 USGS Belle Fourche quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1983 USGS Belle Fourche quadrangle1:100000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Belle Fourche in 2000, burning about 300 acres in total. 1 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.

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

Every fire recorded in Butte County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Belle Fourche: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Butte County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Belle Fourche in 156 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 95 hail, 54 thunderstorm wind, 4 flood, 2 funnel cloud. The reports record 10 injuries. 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.

Every storm recorded in Butte County

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

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1265119. 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.

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.