Erskine, South Dakota

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Northeast Fall River unorganized territory. It lies in ZIP code area 57747. It stands on Cottonwood Springs Creek. The Survey maps it on the Minnekahta NE quadrangle.

Erskine within Fall River County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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.

1902 USGS Edgemont quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
1951 USGS Minnekahta NE quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1955 USGS Hot Springs quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1985 USGS Hot Springs quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1993 USGS Hot Springs quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

137 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 137 fires within 5 miles of Erskine between 1994 and 2020, burning about 10,973 acres in total. 79 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
Natural	79
Debris and open burning	19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	18
Equipment and vehicle use	8
Recreation and ceremony	4
Other causes	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2

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
6 September 2000	Natural	6.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	ROUND TOP
5 September 2005	Natural	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
5 September 2002	Natural	5.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	ARGYLE RD
5 September 2002	Power generation/transmission/distribution	5.0 acres	Cascade Volunteer Fire Department	ARGYLE RD
4 September 2016	Natural	under an acre	Black Hills National Forest	BOOMS
4 September 1996	Natural	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	BOOM
3 September 2007	Natural	1.0 acres	Black Hills National Forest	SHEEP HERDER
20 September 2001	Natural	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	RIDGETOP

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fall River County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Erskine: 8 past producers, 2 producers, 1 occurrence, 1 unknown. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Gypsum-Anhydrite, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Uranium, Mica. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Custer Mica Lodes Nos. 1 and 2	Mica	Occurrence	1943
Hills Material Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Diana A	Uranium	Past Producer
Holdup No. 2	Uranium	Past Producer
Fall River County Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Hot Springs City Land Fill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Romey Sand & Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Grant Robinson Mine	Gypsum-Anhydrite	Past Producer	1893
Grant Robinson Mine	Gypsum-Anhydrite	Past Producer
Hot Springs Gypsum	Gypsum-Anhydrite	Past Producer	1911

Every working recorded in Fall River 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Hot Springs	4.8 miles	19
Minnekahta	6.5 miles	15
Cascade Springs	6.9 miles	15
Rocky Ford	10.3 miles	15
Heppner	12.9 miles	14
Angostura	13.2 miles	16
Oral	15.8 miles	16
Dudley	15.8 miles	16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1265206. 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.