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Fort Pierre, South Dakota

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1924 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Fort Pierre City. It lies in ZIP code area 57532. It stands on Bad River. The Survey maps it on the Pierre quadrangle. 2,115 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,434 feet above sea level.

Fort Pierre within Stanley County

On record in Fort Pierre

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 8 records

Population over time

2 figures

Fort Pierre grew from 2,078 to 2,115 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
20102,078
20202,115+37 (+2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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

71 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 71 fires within 5 miles of Fort Pierre between 1996 and 2020, burning about 2,041 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined41
Fireworks10
Equipment and vehicle use9
Debris and open burning5
Natural3
Other causes1
Smoking1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
30 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionORV CA
30 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression4-WHEELER GRASS FIRE
25 September 2016Equipment and vehicle use200 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionBUICK FIRE
22 September 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionWYLE CA
22 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionWYLY
19 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined40 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionGRASS FIRE
15 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined600 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionGRASS FIRE
15 September 1996Debris and open burning30 acresHuron Wetland Management DistrictHYDE

Every fire recorded in Stanley County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Fort Pierre: 3 past producers, 2 producers, 1 unknown. 2 still produce. 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
Buffalo PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Buffalo Pit #2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Corps of Engineers PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Phillips Terrace PitsSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Polo Grounds PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Stanley County PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Stanley 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
Teton8.5 miles10
Wendte17.2 miles8
Lacy19.9 miles9
Mission Ridge32.3 miles6
Hayes34.4 miles6
Orton35.0 miles6
Sansarc36.6 miles6
Bunker (historical)39.4 miles6

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 Fort PierreAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1994648The 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 1255113. 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.