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Corn Creek, South Dakota

5 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Cedarbutte unorganized territory. It lies in ZIP code area 57521. It lies near Bus Butte. The Survey maps it on the Corn Creek quadrangle. 113 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,365 feet above sea level.

Corn Creek within Mellette County

Population over time

2 figures

Corn Creek grew from 105 to 113 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
2010105
2020113+8 (+8%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 5 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

56 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 56 fires within 5 miles of Corn Creek between 1993 and 2020, burning about 3,745 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 5 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
Debris and open burning12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Equipment and vehicle use8
Natural7
Fireworks7
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Arson/incendiarism5
Other causes3

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 1995Debris and open burning8.0 acresRosebud AgencyCORN CREEK
29 September 2016Debris and open burning77 acresRosebud AgencyTHATCH
28 September 1994Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresRosebud AgencyJUNCTION
2 September 2018Arson/incendiarismunder an acreRosebud AgencyBONFIRE CORN CREEK FIRE
12 September 2017Naturalunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionCORN CREEK LIGHTNING FIRE
10 September 2005Debris and open burning108 acresRosebud AgencyTWO EAGLES
3 August 2012Natural35 acresRosebud AgencyBAD LANDS
25 August 2003Natural30 acresRosebud AgencyCORN CREEK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Mellette County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Corn Creek: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Rosebud Sioux Pit T-9124Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Mellette 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
Norris6.3 miles5
Cedar Butte9.7 miles5
White River24.1 miles6
Wood38.6 miles5
Badnation44.5 miles7
Mosher48.3 miles5

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 Corn CreekAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5678350The 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 1266592. 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.