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Blackhawk, South Dakota

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1957. It stands in the Southwest Meade unorganized territory. It lies in ZIP code area 57718. It lies near Wards Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Blackhawk quadrangle. 3,026 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3,494 feet above sea level.

Blackhawk within Meade County

Population over time

2 figures

Blackhawk grew from 2,892 to 3,026 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.

YearPeople Change
20102,892
20203,026+134 (+5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 16 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

267 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 267 fires within 5 miles of Blackhawk between 1992 and 2020, burning about 6,796 acres in total. 74 started naturally. 4 were 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
Natural74
Debris and open burning52
Missing data/not specified/undetermined45
Equipment and vehicle use26
Misuse of fire by a minor21
Recreation and ceremony17
Fireworks14
Smoking6
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Arson/incendiarism4
Other causes1
Firearms and explosives use1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
8 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.2 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionMARKER 51
8 September 2003Naturalunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named
7 September 2011Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionSOMERSET
7 September 1997Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionHAYSTACK
6 September 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionELDER
5 September 2000Naturalunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionWESTBERRY COURT
5 September 1996Naturalunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionSUN RIDGE
4 September 2010Smokingunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionNEMO RD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Meade County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 14 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Blackhawk: 9 producers, 3 past producers, 2 unknowns. 9 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, Dimension, Gypsum-Anhydrite, Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Double RainbowZinc, Silver, Lead, GoldPast Producer1876, 1881
Hills MaterialsLimestone, GeneralProducerLimestone
Light Aggregates Inc KilnClayUnknown
Rapid City Lime Kilns & QuarriesCalciumProducer
South Dakota State Cement PlantLimestone, General, Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducerLimestone, Shale
Dakota Lime & Brick Co QuarryLimestone, DimensionUnknown
Dakota Plaster Co PitGypsum-AnhydritePast Producer
Everist Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, DimensionProducer
Hills Materials Limestone QuarryLimestone, Dimension, Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Lange Gypsum QuarryGypsum-AnhydriteProducer

Every working recorded in Meade 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
Summerset3.3 miles16
Wonderland Homes4.0 miles16
Goiens (historical)5.4 miles18
Piedmont7.0 miles18
Carwye (historical)7.8 miles18
Tilford12.2 miles16
Runkel (historical)15.7 miles20
Bend16.6 miles14

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 BlackhawkAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2651630The 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 1265129. 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.