Junction Ranger Station, South Dakota

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 within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

• Ferdinand and Elizabeth Roetzel Ranchlisted 1991 · 0.8 miles away

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 Harney Peak quadrangle1:125000
• 1901 USGS Harney Peak quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
• 1954 USGS Berne quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
• 1955 USGS Hot Springs quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
• 1956 USGS Custer quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1977 USGS Mount Rushmore quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 130 fires within 5 miles of Junction Ranger Station between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,632 acres in total. 78 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.

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:

• Vestal Springs
• Danoby (historical)
• Berne
• Pringle
• Spokane
• Sylvan Lake Resort

Every fire recorded in Custer County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 82 workings within 5 miles of Junction Ranger Station: 49 past producers, 16 occurrences, 14 prospects, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Feldspar, Gold, Silver, Tin. 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 Custer 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 1261903. 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.