Custer, South Dakota

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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 12 of 26 shown

• Cold Springs Schoolhouselisted 1973
• Custer County Courthouselisted 1972
• Custer State Game Lodgelisted 1983
• First National Bank Buildinglisted 1982
• Garlock Buildinglisted 2004
• Grace Coolidge Memorial Log Buildinglisted 2001
• Historic Trail and Cave Entrancelisted 1995
• Peter Norbeck Summer Houselisted 1977
• Ranger Stationlisted 1995
• South Dakota Dept. of Transportation Bridge No. 17-289-107listed 1993
• Towner, Francis Averill (T. A.) and Janet Leach, Houselisted 1990
• Newton Seymour Tubbs Houselisted 1993

Every listing in Custer County

Custer fell from 2,067 to 1,919 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.

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.

• 1896 USGS Harney Peak quadrangle1:125000
• 1901 USGS Harney Peak quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
• 1954 USGS Custer quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
• 1955 USGS Hot Springs quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
• 1956 USGS Custer quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1977 USGS Mount Rushmore quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 239 fires within 5 miles of Custer between 1992 and 2020, burning about 780 acres in total. 93 started naturally. 2 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.

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:

• Fourmile
• Sanator
• Berne
• Danoby (historical)
• Argyle
• Blue Bell

Every fire recorded in Custer County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 270 workings within 5 miles of Custer: 153 past producers, 56 prospects, 50 occurrences, 11 producers. 11 still produce. What was taken out: Feldspar, Mica, Feldspar, Mica, Beryllium. 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 Custer County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Custer in 217 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 181 hail, 21 thunderstorm wind, 5 flash flood, 3 tornado. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

Every storm recorded in Custer 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 1265633. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.