Florence, South Dakota

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1894 and the latest in 1957. It stands in the West Pennington unorganized territory. It lies in ZIP code area 57745. It lies near Long Draw. The Survey maps it on the Nahant quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Florence within Pennington County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 15 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.

1894 USGS Deadwood quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1901 USGS Deadwood quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1916 USGS Deadwood quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
1953 USGS Rapid City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1956 USGS Nahant quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1957 USGS Rapid City quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

51 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 51 fires within 5 miles of Florence (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,257 acres in total. 28 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	28
Debris and open burning	8
Recreation and ceremony	7
Power generation/transmission/distribution	7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
5 September 2000	Natural	under an acre	Black Hills National Forest	COYOTE 1
4 September 2016	Natural	under an acre	Black Hills National Forest	WHITE
4 September 2016	Natural	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	WHITE 2
3 September 2017	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Black Hills National Forest	BLACK FOX
3 September 2004	Natural	under an acre	Black Hills National Forest	BEAVER DRAW
3 September 2001	Natural	under an acre	Black Hills National Forest	FOX FLATS
15 September 1995	Natural	under an acre	Black Hills National Forest	WHITE
12 September 1994	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Black Hills National Forest	BLACK TUNNEL MINE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pennington County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 53 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 53 workings within 5 miles of Florence (historical): 37 past producers, 9 occurrences, 6 prospects, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Gold, Silver, 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.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Black Hills Copper Company Mine	Gold, Silver, Copper	Past Producer
Carnotite Cave	Uranium	Occurrence
Manke Claim	Feldspar	Past Producer
Bee Mine	Copper, Silver, Gold	Past Producer	1886
Copper Cliff Company Mine	Copper	Prospect
Gopher Lode	Copper, Silver, Gold	Prospect
Carbon King	Graphite	Prospect
Carbon King Group	Graphite	Occurrence	Vein
Copper Cliff Mine	Graphite	Past Producer	Graphite
Divide & Ridge Mercedes Group	Silver, Gold	Occurrence	Gold, Silver

Every working recorded in Pennington 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
Myersville	3.1 miles	16
Copper Camp (historical)	3.2 miles	16
Rochford	3.3 miles	16
Fairview (historical)	7.2 miles	16
Castleton (historical)	8.2 miles	16
Mystic	8.4 miles	16
Deerfield	8.7 miles	16
Canyon City (historical)	9.9 miles	15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1264596. 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.