Marksville, South Dakota

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the South Dewey unorganized territory. It lies in ZIP code area 57442. The Survey maps it on the Patch Skin Buttes SW quadrangle.

Marksville within Dewey 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 McIntosh quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS McIntosh quadrangle1:250000
1969 USGS Patch Skin Buttes SW quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS La Plant quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

68 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 68 fires within 5 miles of Marksville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,000 acres in total. 8 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	19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	12
Misuse of fire by a minor	11
Natural	8
Fireworks	7
Smoking	5
Debris and open burning	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Recreation and ceremony	1
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
4 September 2005	Natural	under an acre	Cheyenne River Agency	BUFFALO
30 September 2000	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Cheyenne River Agency	BORDEAUX
3 September 2002	Equipment and vehicle use	3.4 acres	Cheyenne River Agency	JAIME DX.
24 September 2003	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Cheyenne River Agency	WHITLOCK
18 September 2014	Other causes	10 acres	Cheyenne River Agency	DAY SCHOOL
1 September 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	1.9 acres	Cheyenne River Agency	4 SPOT
9 August 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Cheyenne River Agency	MM203
9 August 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.5 acres	Cheyenne River Agency	FIBER

Every fire recorded in Dewey 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 Marksville: 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 Dewey 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
La Plant	15.4 miles	7
Virginia	15.6 miles	9
Moreau	19.8 miles	7
Promise	21.8 miles	8
Ridgeview	22.4 miles	7
Yellowhorse Ford	26.6 miles	8
Thatcher	29.3 miles	7
Whitehorse	30.3 miles	8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1256328. 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.