Castleton, South Dakota

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1894 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the West Pennington unorganized territory. It lies in ZIP code area 57745. It lies near Bobcat Gulch. The Survey maps it on the Rochford quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Castleton within Pennington County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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.

1894 USGS Deadwood quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1901 USGS Deadwood quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1916 USGS Deadwood quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
1953 USGS Rapid City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1956 USGS Rochford quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1957 USGS Rapid City quadrangle1:250000
1998 USGS Rochford quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

112 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 112 fires within 5 miles of Castleton (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 115 acres in total. 57 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	57
Recreation and ceremony	40
Power generation/transmission/distribution	7
Debris and open burning	4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Other causes	1
Smoking	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
9 September 2013	Natural	under an acre	Black Hills National Forest	TRESTLE
5 September 2000	Natural	under an acre	Black Hills National Forest	MASCOT
5 September 1995	Natural	under an acre	Black Hills National Forest	CASTLE
30 September 1997	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Black Hills National Forest	NOT ENOUGH
25 September 1994	Smoking	3.0 acres	Black Hills National Forest	SLATE CREEK
15 September 2016	Natural	under an acre	Black Hills National Forest	GREEN
9 August 2011	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Black Hills National Forest	LOST PARK
9 August 2006	Natural	under an acre	Black Hills National Forest	STEWART

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pennington County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 49 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 49 workings within 5 miles of Castleton (historical): 34 past producers, 9 occurrences, 6 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Gold, Silver, Antimony, Gold, Lead, Silver. 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	Recorded
Diana Mine	Gold, Silver, Antimony, Lead	Past Producer	Jamesonite, Pyrite, Pyrrhotite
Duggans Shaft	Lead, Silver, Gold, Antimony	Prospect
Grand View Mine	Lead, Gold, Silver	Past Producer	Vein
Homelode	Gold, Silver, Lead, Antimony	Past Producer	Vein
Jenny Gulch Mine	Gold, Silver, Copper	Past Producer
Tiffel Mine	Lead, Silver, Antimony	Past Producer
Carbon King Group	Graphite	Occurrence	Vein
Cottrill Bog Iron Deposit	Iron	Occurrence
Cottrill Bog Iron Deposit	Iron	Prospect
Duggan's Shaft	Lead, Silver, Gold	Occurrence	Vein

Every working recorded in Pennington 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
Mystic	1.1 miles	16
Fairview (historical)	2.5 miles	16
Canyon City (historical)	3.0 miles	15
Redfern	4.4 miles	16
Silver City	5.1 miles	15
Myersville	5.1 miles	16
Rochford	5.3 miles	16
Tigerville	6.2 miles	21

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1264600. 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.