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Crook City, South Dakota

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1894 and the latest in 1961. It stands in the North Lawrence unorganized territory. It lies in ZIP code area 57793. The Survey maps it on the Deadwood North quadrangle.

Crook City within Lawrence County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 19 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

112 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 112 fires within 5 miles of Crook City between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,784 acres in total. 59 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
Natural59
Debris and open burning17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Equipment and vehicle use10
Recreation and ceremony7
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Other causes1
Smoking1

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
9 September 2013Naturalunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionWILSON
5 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionI-90
5 September 1995Naturalunder an acreBlack Hills National ForestWHITEWOOD PEAK
28 September 2010Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionASPEN HOLLOW
28 September 1992Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionSAWMILL FIRE
11 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named
8 August 2020Naturalunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression200TH CA
7 August 2016Naturalunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionACORN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lawrence County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Crook City: 4 producers, 3 past producers, 1 unknown. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Limestone, Dimension, 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
Alpine - Strawberry Mining Co.Gold, MercuryPast ProducerPlacer
Cole Construction CompanyLimestone, GeneralProducerLimestone
Sundstrom QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Wells Fargo MS 946Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Cole Construction CoLimestone, DimensionProducer
Cole QuarryLimestone, DimensionUnknown
Deadwood-Heidelberg MineGoldPast Producer1911
Mascot Mining Co. MineGoldPast Producer

Every working recorded in Lawrence 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
Centennial City (historical)0.5 miles19
Whitewood1.4 miles19
Boulder Canyon3.6 miles18
Elizabethtown (historical)5.2 miles19
Chinatown6.3 miles19
Deadwood6.8 miles19
Galena7.4 miles20
Pluma8.0 miles20

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1265170. 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.