North Eagle Butte, South Dakota

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the North Dewey unorganized territory. It lies in ZIP code area 57625. The Survey maps it on the Parade SW quadrangle. 1,879 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,408 feet above sea level.

North Eagle Butte within Dewey County

Population over time

2 figures

North Eagle Butte fell from 1,954 to 1,879 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

Year	People	Change
2010	1,954
2020	1,879	-75 (-4%)

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
1981 USGS Parade SW quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Timber Lake quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

806 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 806 fires within 5 miles of North Eagle Butte between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,826 acres in total. 47 started naturally. 42 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
Fireworks	204
Misuse of fire by a minor	173
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	133
Equipment and vehicle use	105
Natural	47
Arson/incendiarism	42
Debris and open burning	32
Power generation/transmission/distribution	23
Other causes	19
Smoking	14
Recreation and ceremony	14

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
9 September 2002	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Cheyenne River Agency	RANGERFIRE
9 September 1998	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Cheyenne River Agency	HOSPITALCA
8 September 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Cheyenne River Agency	BINGO
7 September 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Cheyenne River Agency	TAYLOR II
7 September 2002	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Cheyenne River Agency	I.H.S.
6 September 2016	Other causes	under an acre	Cheyenne River Agency	TREE 2
6 September 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	3.1 acres	Cheyenne River Agency	MIKES
6 September 2003	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Cheyenne River Agency	POWWOW

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

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 North Eagle Butte: 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
	Cheyenne Sioux Tribe 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
Eagle Butte	0.1 miles	7
Parade	7.0 miles	7
Lantry	10.5 miles	7
Green Grass	11.5 miles	8
Bear Creek	11.9 miles	7
Thatcher	16.3 miles	7
Ridgeview	23.6 miles	7
Whitehorse	26.0 miles	8

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 North Eagle Butte	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q608418	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 1259250. 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.