Forest City, South Dakota

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the West Potter unorganized territory. It lies in ZIP code area 57442. The Survey maps it on the Patch Skin Buttes SE quadrangle.

Forest City within Potter County

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.

1953 USGS McIntosh quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS McIntosh quadrangle1:250000
1969 USGS Patch Skin Buttes SE quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS La Plant quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

41 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 41 fires within 5 miles of Forest City between 1992 and 2020, burning about 932 acres in total. 8 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
Equipment and vehicle use	10
Natural	8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Misuse of fire by a minor	5
Fireworks	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Debris and open burning	3
Smoking	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
4 September 2005	Natural	2.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
4 September 2005	Natural	under an acre	Cheyenne River Agency	BUFFALO
3 September 2002	Equipment and vehicle use	3.4 acres	Cheyenne River Agency	JAIME DX.
24 September 2003	Power generation/transmission/distribution	750 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	KULA
24 September 2003	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Cheyenne River Agency	WHITLOCK
9 August 1999	Power generation/transmission/distribution	3.5 acres	Cheyenne River Agency	BIRD1
7 August 2012	Natural	under an acre	Cheyenne River Agency	MAID
6 August 2010	Misuse of fire by a minor	8.4 acres	Cheyenne River Agency	ROOKIE

Every fire recorded in Potter County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Forest City: 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Potter 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
Gorman	13.1 miles	6
Gettysburg	18.3 miles	7
Lebanon	28.5 miles	7
Hoven	32.3 miles	7
Tolstoy	39.0 miles	7

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1265818. 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.