Macs Corner, South Dakota

8 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 57345. The Survey maps it on the Macs Corner quadrangle.

Macs Corner within Hyde County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 8 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
1973 USGS Macs Corner quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1985 USGS Big Bend Dam quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

45 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 45 fires within 5 miles of Macs Corner between 1993 and 2020, burning about 222 acres in total. 10 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
Equipment and vehicle use	20
Natural	10
Debris and open burning	7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Fireworks	2
Recreation and ceremony	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Smoking	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
7 September 2009	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Crow Creek Agency	SHOVEL
6 September 2002	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Crow Creek Agency	STEPHAN1
5 September 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Hyde County	KONRAD
5 September 2013	Natural	1.0 acres	Crow Creek Agency	FLASH
17 September 2000	Natural	1.1 acres	Crow Creek Agency	D.BINDER
15 September 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	7.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	BRETT'S BALER FIRE
14 September 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	Crow Creek Agency	QUATRO
4 August 2006	Natural	10 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hyde 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 Macs Corner: 1 producer. All of them still produce. 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
	Werdel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Hyde 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
Stephan	0.7 miles	7
Highmore	18.6 miles	9
Bramhall (historical)	19.9 miles	8
Holabird	20.5 miles	8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1261037. 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.