Brownsville, South Dakota

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 1 record

• John Hill Ranch-Keltomakilisted 1985

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.

• 1894 USGS Deadwood quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
• 1899 USGS Sturgis quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1901 USGS Deadwood quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
• 1915 USGS Sturgis quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1916 USGS Deadwood quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
• 1953 USGS Rapid City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1957 USGS Rapid City quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Deadwood South quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 107 fires within 5 miles of Brownsville (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 12,758 acres in total. 31 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.

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

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Roubaix
• Virginia (historical)
• Elizabethtown (historical)
• Galena
• Woodville
• Benchmark

Every fire recorded in Lawrence County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 85 workings within 5 miles of Brownsville (historical): 63 past producers, 9 unknowns, 5 occurrences, 5 prospects. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Silver, Lead, Lead. 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 Lawrence 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 1265621. 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.