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Elizabethtown, South Dakota

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1894 and the latest in 1961. It stands in Deadwood City. It lies in ZIP code area 57785. It lies near Spruce Gulch. The Survey maps it on the Deadwood North quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Elizabethtown 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

124 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 124 fires within 5 miles of Elizabethtown (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 13,454 acres in total. 56 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
Natural56
Debris and open burning19
Recreation and ceremony13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Equipment and vehicle use9
Power generation/transmission/distribution8
Fireworks3
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Smoking2

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
8 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named
5 September 1995Natural2.0 acresBlack Hills National ForestANCHOR HILL
5 September 1995Naturalunder an acreBlack Hills National ForestWHITEWOOD PEAK
30 September 2013Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionSKATEBOARD
30 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionWASHINGTON CA
30 September 2007Naturalunder an acreBlack Hills National ForestBEEMER
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

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lawrence County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 167 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 167 workings within 5 miles of Elizabethtown (historical): 100 past producers, 43 producers, 13 unknowns, 4 occurrences. 46 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Gold, Silver, Tungsten. 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
Belle Eldridge Gold Mine Inc.Lead, Silver, ZincPast Producer1878, 1937
Belle Eldridge Gold MinesGold, Silver, Lead, Zinc, CopperPast Producer1890
Cole Construction CompanyLimestone, GeneralProducerLimestone
Custer Peak PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Durango MineTungsten, Gold, SilverPast ProducerGold, Silver, Wolframite
El RefugioSilver, Lead, GoldPast Producer
Hardin PropertiesGold, Iron, SulfurOccurrence
Hidden Fortune MineTungsten, Gold, SilverPast ProducerReplacement
Iron PitSodiumProducer

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
Chinatown1.1 miles19
Deadwood1.6 miles19
Pluma2.7 miles20
Gayville3.2 miles17
Blacktail3.3 miles17
Terraville3.7 miles17
Lancaster City (historical)3.8 miles20
Central City4.0 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1263421. 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.