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.
Population over time
2 figuresCorn 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 105 | |
| 2020 | 113 | +8 (+8%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 5 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1955 USGS Martin quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Martin quadrangle1:250000
- 1980 USGS Kadoka quadrangle1:100000
- 1981 USGS Cedar Butte quadrangle1:25000
Fires near this place
56 since 1993Regional 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 burning | 12 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 9 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 8 |
| Natural | 7 |
| Fireworks | 7 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 5 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 5 |
| Other causes | 3 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 1995 | Debris and open burning | 8.0 acres | Rosebud Agency | CORN CREEK |
| 29 September 2016 | Debris and open burning | 77 acres | Rosebud Agency | THATCH |
| 28 September 1994 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Rosebud Agency | JUNCTION |
| 2 September 2018 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Rosebud Agency | BONFIRE CORN CREEK FIRE |
| 12 September 2017 | Natural | under an acre | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | CORN CREEK LIGHTNING FIRE |
| 10 September 2005 | Debris and open burning | 108 acres | Rosebud Agency | TWO EAGLES |
| 3 August 2012 | Natural | 35 acres | Rosebud Agency | BAD LANDS |
| 25 August 2003 | Natural | 30 acres | Rosebud Agency | CORN CREEK |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rosebud Sioux Pit T-9124 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Norris | 6.3 miles | 5 | |
| Cedar Butte | 9.7 miles | 5 | |
| White River | 24.1 miles | 6 | |
| Wood | 38.6 miles | 5 | |
| Badnation | 44.5 miles | 7 | |
| Mosher | 48.3 miles | 5 |
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 Creek | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5678350 | The 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.



