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Eagle Butte, South Dakota

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the North Dewey unorganized territory. It lies in ZIP code area 57625. The Survey maps it on the Parade SW quadrangle. 1,258 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,418 feet above sea level.

Eagle Butte within Dewey County

On record in Eagle Butte

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 2 records

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 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

804 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 804 fires within 5 miles of Eagle Butte between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,826 acres in total. 47 started naturally. 42 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
Fireworks204
Misuse of fire by a minor173
Missing data/not specified/undetermined133
Equipment and vehicle use103
Natural47
Arson/incendiarism42
Debris and open burning32
Power generation/transmission/distribution23
Other causes19
Smoking14
Recreation and ceremony14

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 2002Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreCheyenne River AgencyRANGERFIRE
9 September 1998Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreCheyenne River AgencyHOSPITALCA
8 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCheyenne River AgencyBINGO
7 September 2008Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreCheyenne River AgencyTAYLOR II
7 September 2002Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreCheyenne River AgencyI.H.S.
6 September 2016Other causesunder an acreCheyenne River AgencyTREE 2
6 September 2006Equipment and vehicle use3.1 acresCheyenne River AgencyMIKES
6 September 2003Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreCheyenne River AgencyPOWWOW

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dewey 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 Eagle Butte: 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Cheyenne Sioux Tribe PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Dewey County

Storms near this place

49 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Eagle Butte in 49 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 27 hail, 19 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 flash flood. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2025Thunderstorm WindEagle Butte-A peak measured gust of 62 mph was recorded on a personal weather station 14 miles south of Parade.
September 2025FloodEagle Butte-Tribal Officials report that the culvert on BIA Rt 8 has partly washed out. Travel through the area was difficult.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindEagle Butte-Estimated eighty mph winds tipped a mobile home over.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindEagle Butte-Sixty mph winds were estimated.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindEagle Butte-Estimated ninety mph winds destroyed an empty trailer along with tipping another one over. A delivery truck was also tipped over and a mobile home was destroyed. A couple buildings had parts of their roofs blown off with many trees damaged or uprooted. Some power lines were also downed.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindEagle Butte-Sixty mph winds downed several tree branches along with knocking a grill off the deck.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindEagle Butte-Sixty mph winds were estimated by the public.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindEagle Butte-Sixty mph winds were estimated.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindEagle Butte-Sixty mph winds were estimated north of Eagle Butte.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindEagle Butte-Seventy mph winds were estimated in Eagle Butte.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindEagle Butte-Sixty mph winds were estimated.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindEagle Butte-One hundred mph winds flattened a pole barn, toppled and severely damaged several grain bins, and shattered the glass out of a tractor.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindEagle Butte-One hundred mph winds flattened a pole barn and blew two horse trailers into a tractor. The horse trailers and the tractor were damaged.
June 2009Flash FloodEagle Butte-Heavy rain flooded several roads in and around Eagle Butte.
June 2008Tornado (EF0)Eagle Butte-A third tornado touched down briefly in Dewey county. No damage was reported.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindEagle Butte-Eighty mph winds downed several trees and damaged some structures. A mobile home was rolled and destroyed.
May 2003HailEagle Butte-Dime size hail fell continuously for an hour.
August 2003Thunderstorm WindEagle Butte-Eighty mph winds destroyed a mobile home in Eagle Butte, downed several trees, power lines and poles, and scattered lawn and play equipment. Eagle Butte was without power for around nine hours.
September 1997HailEagle Butte-Large hail dented and broke automobile windshields.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindEagle Butte-no account filed
August 2020HailEagle Butte-no account filed
August 2020HailEagle Butte-no account filed
July 2019Thunderstorm WindEagle Butte-no account filed
July 2018Thunderstorm WindEagle Butte-no account filed
June 2018HailEagle Butte-no account filed
June 2018HailEagle Butte-no account filed
July 2017Thunderstorm WindEagle Butte-no account filed
July 2016HailEagle Butte-no account filed
July 2016HailEagle Butte-no account filed
July 2016HailEagle Butte-no account filed
May 2013HailEagle Butte-no account filed
July 2010HailEagle Butte-no account filed
May 2009HailEagle Butte-no account filed
June 2009HailEagle Butte-no account filed
June 2009HailEagle Butte-no account filed
June 2009HailEagle Butte-no account filed
June 2009HailEagle Butte-no account filed
June 2009HailEagle Butte-no account filed
June 2009HailEagle Butte-no account filed
May 2007HailEagle Butte-no account filed
July 2007Thunderstorm WindEagle Butte-no account filed
July 2003HailEagle Butte-no account filed
July 2003HailEagle Butte-no account filed
July 2001HailEagle Butte-no account filed
June 2000HailEagle Butte-no account filed
August 2000HailEagle Butte-no account filed
August 2000HailEagle Butte-no account filed
June 1997HailEagle Butte-no account filed
August 1995HailEagle Butte-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Dewey 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
North Eagle Butte0.1 miles7
Parade7.0 miles7
Lantry10.5 miles7
Green Grass11.7 miles8
Bear Creek12.0 miles7
Thatcher16.3 miles7
Ridgeview23.6 miles7
Whitehorse26.1 miles8

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 Eagle ButteAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2705570The 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 1267668. 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.