Denby, South Dakota

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the East Oglala Lakota unorganized territory. It lies in ZIP code area 57716. It stands on Spring Creek. The Survey maps it on the Denby quadrangle.

Denby within Oglala Lakota County

Topographic sheets covering this place

3 surveys from 8 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.

1955 USGS Hot Springs quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1967 USGS Denby quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Pine Ridge quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

179 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 179 fires within 5 miles of Denby between 1992 and 2020, burning about 925 acres in total. 12 started naturally. 7 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	61
Equipment and vehicle use	33
Misuse of fire by a minor	21
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15
Other causes	14
Natural	12
Fireworks	10
Arson/incendiarism	7
Smoking	5
Recreation and ceremony	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 1994	Natural	5.0 acres	Pine Ridge Agency	N. DENBY
5 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Pine Ridge Agency	LITTLE STAMPEDE
4 September 2007	Misuse of fire by a minor	5.0 acres	Pine Ridge Agency	FROG
28 September 2000	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Pine Ridge Agency	5 STRIKES
28 September 2000	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Pine Ridge Agency	18 JCT.
26 September 2012	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Pine Ridge Agency	SUNFLOWER
25 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Pine Ridge Agency	BOOTS
22 September 2012	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Pine Ridge Agency	AYTCH

Every fire recorded in Oglala Lakota 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 Denby: 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
	Gravel Pit	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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Wounded Knee	5.7 miles	8
Wakpamani	10.9 miles	9
Pine Ridge	11.8 miles	9
Porcupine	12.3 miles	8
Batesland	13.4 miles	8
Manderson	14.0 miles	8
Evergreen	17.4 miles	8
Sharps Corner	22.9 miles	9

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 Denby	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q23709352	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 1260997. 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.