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Myersville, South Dakota

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1894 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the West Pennington unorganized territory. It lies in ZIP code area 57745. It lies near Castle Peak. The Survey maps it on the Rochford quadrangle.

Myersville within Pennington County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 16 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.

Fires near this place

89 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 89 fires within 5 miles of Myersville between 1993 and 2020, burning about 840 acres in total. 48 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
Natural48
Recreation and ceremony28
Power generation/transmission/distribution6
Debris and open burning4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Other causes1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 September 2013Naturalunder an acreBlack Hills National ForestTRESTLE
5 September 2000Naturalunder an acreBlack Hills National ForestCOYOTE 1
5 September 2000Naturalunder an acreBlack Hills National ForestMASCOT
5 September 1995Naturalunder an acreBlack Hills National ForestCASTLE
4 September 2016Naturalunder an acreBlack Hills National ForestWHITE
4 September 2016Naturalunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionWHITE 2
3 September 2001Naturalunder an acreBlack Hills National ForestFOX FLATS
12 September 1994Debris and open burningunder an acreBlack Hills National ForestBLACK TUNNEL MINE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pennington County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 57 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 57 workings within 5 miles of Myersville: 40 past producers, 10 occurrences, 6 prospects, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Iron, Gold, Silver. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Black Hills Copper Company MineGold, Silver, CopperPast Producer
Carnotite CaveUraniumOccurrence
Manke ClaimFeldsparPast Producer
Bee MineCopper, Silver, GoldPast Producer1886
Copper Cliff Company MineCopperProspect
Gopher LodeCopper, Silver, GoldProspect
Carbon KingGraphiteProspect
Carbon King GroupGraphiteOccurrenceVein
Copper Cliff MineGraphitePast ProducerGraphite
G & H GroupGraphiteOccurrenceVein

Every working recorded in Pennington 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Rochford1.8 miles16
Florence (historical)3.1 miles15
Copper Camp (historical)3.3 miles16
Fairview (historical)4.6 miles16
Castleton (historical)5.1 miles16
Mystic5.5 miles16
Canyon City (historical)7.2 miles15
Deerfield7.8 miles16

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.

Wikipedia article on MyersvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q15260505The 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 1265299. 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.