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Diamond City, South Dakota

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1894 and the latest in 1957. It stands in the South Lawrence unorganized territory. It lies in ZIP code area 57732. It lies near Greens Gulch. The Survey maps it on the Minnesota Ridge quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Diamond City within Lawrence County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 14 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

49 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 49 fires within 5 miles of Diamond City (historical) between 1993 and 2020, burning about 50 acres in total. 28 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.

Reported cause Fires
Natural28
Power generation/transmission/distribution6
Recreation and ceremony6
Debris and open burning4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Arson/incendiarism2

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 acreBlack Hills National ForestTRESTLE
8 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreBlack Hills National ForestGIMLET
8 September 2004Natural2.0 acresBlack Hills National ForestMCINERNY
8 September 2003Naturalunder an acreBlack Hills National ForestCUSTER CROSSING
5 September 1995Naturalunder an acreBlack Hills National ForestWILBUR
4 September 2011Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreBlack Hills National ForestKILLOERN
16 September 2007Naturalunder an acreBlack Hills National ForestMINNESOTA
8 August 2016Naturalunder an acreBlack Hills National ForestROUBAIX

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lawrence County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 42 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 42 workings within 5 miles of Diamond City (historical): 32 past producers, 7 occurrences, 2 prospects, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Silver, Gold, Gold, Silver. 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
Calabogia MineSilver, LeadPast ProducerVein
Carbon King GroupGraphiteOccurrenceVein
Carnotite CaveUraniumOccurrence
Manke ClaimFeldsparPast Producer
Standby MineSilver, GoldPast ProducerReplacement
Custer Peak Copper Co MineCopperPast Producer
Jungle MineCopperPast ProducerChalcopyrite, Pyrite, Pyrrhotite
Blue Bird MineGold, SilverPast ProducerPyrite
Cochrane MineGold, SilverPast ProducerGold, Silver
Gold King MineGold, SilverPast Producer1879

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
Gregory (historical)2.3 miles14
Nahant3.5 miles15
Dumont8.1 miles15
Benchmark8.2 miles17
Brownsville (historical)8.6 miles20
Greenwood8.8 miles17
Roubaix8.9 miles20
Novak9.0 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1263420. 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.