Hot Springs, South Dakota

• Open map evidence
• Research guide
• Fall River County

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 7 records

• Battle Mountain Sanitarium, National Home For Disabled Volunteer Soldierslisted 2011
• Hot Springs High Schoollisted 1980
• Petty Houselisted 1999
• State Soldiers Home Barnlisted 2009
• Phillip Wesch Houselisted 1984
• Hot Springs Historic Districtlisted 2018
• Log Cabin Tourist Camplisted 2004

Hot Springs fell from 3,711 to 3,395 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.

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.

• 1896 USGS Oelrichs quadrangle1:125000
• 1900 USGS Oelrichs quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
• 1950 USGS Hot Springs quadrangle1:24000, 6 printings
• 1955 USGS Hot Springs quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
• 1985 USGS Hot Springs quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
• 1993 USGS Hot Springs quadrangle1:100000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 156 fires within 5 miles of Hot Springs between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,259 acres in total. 77 started naturally. 2 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Erskine
• Cascade Springs

Every fire recorded in Fall River County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Hot Springs: 11 past producers, 2 producers, 1 unknown. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Gypsum-Anhydrite, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Flagstone. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Fall River County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hot Springs in 106 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 70 hail, 24 thunderstorm wind, 7 flash flood, 4 flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

Every storm recorded in Fall River County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1265256. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.