Lees Corner, South Dakota

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Crow Creek unorganized territory. It lies in ZIP code area 57325. The Survey maps it on the Big Bend Dam SE quadrangle. It stands 1,696 feet above sea level.

Lees Corner within Buffalo County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 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.

1953 USGS Huron quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1954 USGS Huron quadrangle1:250000
1966 USGS Big Bend Dam SE quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Big Bend Dam quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

239 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 239 fires within 5 miles of Lees Corner between 1992 and 2020, burning about 964 acres in total. 24 started naturally. 4 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
Debris and open burning	89
Equipment and vehicle use	35
Fireworks	31
Misuse of fire by a minor	27
Natural	24
Smoking	14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	9
Arson/incendiarism	4
Recreation and ceremony	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Other causes	1

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 2007	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Crow Creek Agency	WINDY
8 September 2002	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Crow Creek Agency	LEESCORNER
8 September 1993	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Crow Creek Agency	BARRIANS
4 September 2003	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	Crow Creek Agency	BLOW OUT
26 September 2011	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Crow Creek Agency	SHIM
26 September 2010	Natural	under an acre	Crow Creek Agency	JOOSE
25 September 2011	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Crow Creek Agency	MIDNIGHT
24 September 2000	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Crow Creek Agency	EASTHOUSIN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Fort Thompson

Every fire recorded in Buffalo County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Lees Corner: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Buffalo 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
Fort Thompson	6.0 miles	7
Crow Creek	10.0 miles	10
Shelby	11.5 miles	10
Gannvalley	18.1 miles	7

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.

Wikidata item Q72712748

The 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 1261034. 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.