Preston, South Dakota

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1894 and the latest in 1961. It stands in the North Lawrence unorganized territory. It lies in ZIP code area 57754. It lies near Ragged Top Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Savoy quadrangle.

Preston within Lawrence County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 18 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.

1894 USGS Deadwood quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1900 USGS Spearfish quadrangle1:62500
1901 USGS Deadwood quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1915 USGS Spearfish quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1916 USGS Deadwood quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
1953 USGS Rapid City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Rapid City quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Savoy quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings

Fires near this place

110 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 110 fires within 5 miles of Preston between 1992 and 2020, burning about 541 acres in total. 37 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
Natural	37
Recreation and ceremony	25
Debris and open burning	19
Power generation/transmission/distribution	9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	9
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Other causes	2
Smoking	2

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 2000	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	WAR EAGLE 2
7 September 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Montana/Dakotas State Office	SHEEPTAIL GULCH
30 September 1993	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Black Hills National Forest	SWARM
28 September 2019	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	HIGH RIDGE
2 September 2000	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Black Hills National Forest	NORBERT
19 September 1999	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	TERRY
9 August 2003	Natural	under an acre	Black Hills National Forest	FIVE AM
9 August 2001	Natural	under an acre	Black Hills National Forest	RIMROCK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lawrence County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 201 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 201 workings within 5 miles of Preston: 129 past producers, 37 producers, 20 unknowns, 9 occurrences. 41 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Gold, Silver, Silver, Gold. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Golden Reward Mine	Gold, Silver, Tellurium	Past Producer	Replacement
Iron Hill	Zinc, Silver, Silica, Manganese, Lead, Iron, Gold, Sulfur, Phosphorus-Phosphates	Past Producer	1881, 1885
Iron Hill Mine	Gold, Silver, Lead, Manganese	Past Producer	Gold, Vanadinite
Moores, False Bottom Creek	Molybdenum	Occurrence	Molybdenite
Ross Hannibal Group	Gold, Silver, Fluorine-Fluorite, Uranium	Past Producer	1890
Adelphia	Manganese, Lead, Gold, Silver	Past Producer	1881, 1882
Spanish R	Manganese, Lead, Gold, Silver	Past Producer	1881, 1882
Seabury-Calkins	Silver, Manganese, Lead, Gold	Past Producer	1881, 1882
Segregated Iron Hill	Silver, Manganese, Lead, Gold	Past Producer	1881, 1882
Titanic	Silver, Manganese, Lead, Gold	Past Producer	1881

Every working recorded in Lawrence 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
Ragged Top (historical)	0.2 miles	18
Dacy (historical)	1.1 miles	18
Savoy	2.3 miles	18
Victoria	2.8 miles	19
Maurice	2.8 miles	19
Trojan	2.8 miles	17
Elmore	2.9 miles	18
Carbonate (historical)	3.1 miles	20

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1262241. 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.