Hayward, South Dakota

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1894 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the Mount Rushmore unorganized territory. It lies in ZIP code area 57751. It stands on Iron Creek. The Survey maps it on the Hayward quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Hayward within Pennington County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 23 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 Hermosa quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1901 USGS Hermosa quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
1954 USGS Hayward quadrangle1:24000, 6 printings
1954 USGS Mount Rushmore quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1955 USGS Hot Springs quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1977 USGS Mount Rushmore quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1998 USGS Hayward quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

270 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 270 fires within 5 miles of Hayward (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 16,653 acres in total. 92 started naturally. 9 were 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	92
Debris and open burning	59
Recreation and ceremony	55
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	30
Equipment and vehicle use	13
Arson/incendiarism	9
Power generation/transmission/distribution	8
Other causes	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
8 September 2003	Natural	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
8 September 2002	Natural	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	BURROW RIDGE
8 September 1998	Natural	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	HUGO
6 September 1994	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Black Hills National Forest	GOVERNMENT PASTURE
5 September 2010	Natural	1.1 acres	Black Hills National Forest	GHOST
5 September 1997	Natural	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	HOLE IN THE WALL
4 September 1992	Natural	under an acre	Black Hills National Forest	FUEL BREAK
3 September 2008	Natural	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pennington County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 101 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 101 workings within 5 miles of Hayward (historical): 73 past producers, 12 occurrences, 10 prospects, 5 producers. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Feldspar, Beryllium, 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 Silica Sand Co Mine	Silica	Prospect
Bullion Mine Pennington County	Gold, Silver, Arsenic	Past Producer	1877, 1930
Cuyahoga Mine	Sulfur-Pyrite, Tin	Past Producer	1917
Dakota Quartz Plant	Stone, Feldspar	Producer
Edison Mine	Lithium, Mica, Feldspar, Beryllium, Tantalum	Past Producer	1917
Edison Mine	Tantalum, Niobium (Columbium)	Past Producer
Egyptian Group	Gold, Silver, Zinc	Past Producer	Chalcopyrite, Gold, Pyrrhotite, Silver, Sphalerite
Etta Spodumene Mine	Feldspar, Mica, Lithium, Tin, Beryllium, Tantalum, Tungsten	Past Producer	1898
Eureka	Mica, Beryllium, Feldspar	Occurrence	Beryl, Feldspar, Muscovite
Gilt Edge Mica Mine	Mica, Beryllium	Past Producer	Beryl, Muscovite

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
Frenchtown (historical)	2.8 miles	21
Harney	3.2 miles	21
Keystone	4.7 miles	21
Rockerville	6.1 miles	19
Stratosphere Bowl	7.3 miles	19
Ajax	8.3 miles	16
Colonial Pine Hills	9.4 miles	16
Clarkson Addition	9.5 miles	16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1267028. 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.