LaCreek, South Dakota

5 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the East Bennett unorganized territory. It lies in ZIP code area 57551. The Survey maps it on the Martin SW quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

LaCreek within Bennett County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 5 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.

1955 USGS Martin quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Martin quadrangle1:250000
1981 USGS Phantom Lake quadrangle1:25000
1983 USGS Martin quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

19 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of LaCreek (historical) between 2000 and 2020, burning about 383 acres in total. 11 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
Natural	11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Debris and open burning	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
17 September 2000	Natural	2.0 acres	Martin Volunteer Fire Department	MICHEEL RANCH
18 August 2006	Natural	5.0 acres	Lacreek National Wildlife Refuge	LATE NIGHT
18 August 2005	Natural	under an acre	Lacreek National Wildlife Refuge	POOL 8
14 August 2000	Natural	1.0 acres	Lacreek National Wildlife Refuge	TOWER
11 August 2001	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Martin Volunteer Fire Department	GREGG
7 July 2006	Natural	5.0 acres	Lacreek National Wildlife Refuge	ROOKIE
7 July 2006	Natural	12 acres	Lacreek National Wildlife Refuge	SOUTH BOUNDARY
7 July 2006	Natural	20 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named

Every fire recorded in Bennett 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
Martin	7.2 miles	5
Tuthill	9.2 miles	6
Black Eyes	12.0 miles	5
Patricia	15.3 miles	5
Bad Wound	15.6 miles	5
Plenty Bears	16.2 miles	5
Vetal	16.6 miles	6
Swett	17.1 miles	5

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1264140. 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.