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Saint Francis, South Dakota

5 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1982. It stands in St. Francis town. It lies in ZIP code area 57572. The Survey maps it on the Saint Francis quadrangle. 469 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,989 feet above sea level.

Saint Francis within Todd County

On record in Saint Francis

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Population over time

2 figures

Saint Francis fell from 709 to 469 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.

YearPeople Change
2010709
2020469-240 (-34%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 5 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

1,134 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1,134 fires within 5 miles of Saint Francis between 1992 and 2020, burning about 7,641 acres in total. 108 started naturally. 220 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
Misuse of fire by a minor285
Arson/incendiarism220
Missing data/not specified/undetermined164
Fireworks122
Debris and open burning118
Natural108
Equipment and vehicle use68
Other causes23
Power generation/transmission/distribution12
Recreation and ceremony11
Smoking3

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 2000Misuse of fire by a minor1.5 acresRosebud AgencyTWO STRIKE
8 September 2003Arson/incendiarismunder an acreRosebud AgencyOLD S F DU
8 September 1994Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreRosebud AgencyBALES#11
7 September 2020Arson/incendiarism1.3 acresRosebud AgencyTACOMA
7 September 2015Arson/incendiarismunder an acreRosebud AgencyFOUNDATION
7 September 2011Naturalunder an acreRosebud AgencySTICKER PATCH
7 September 2003Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresRosebud AgencyAGAIN
7 September 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreRosebud AgencySF DUMP

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Todd 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 Saint Francis: 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Rosebud Sioux Ex A 43-2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Todd 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
Two Strike5.0 miles5
Spring Creek6.5 miles5
Rosebud6.7 miles5
Lakeview8.8 miles5
Soldier Creek12.4 miles5
Parmelee13.9 miles5
Olsonville15.7 miles5
Mission17.2 miles5

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 Saint FrancisAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2548413The 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 1257590. 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.