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Saint Lawrence, South Dakota

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1985. It stands in St. Lawrence town. It lies in ZIP code area 57373. The Survey maps it on the Miller quadrangle. 163 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,568 feet above sea level.

Saint Lawrence within Hand County

Population over time

2 figures

Saint Lawrence fell from 198 to 163 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
2010198
2020163-35 (-18%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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

29 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 29 fires within 5 miles of Saint Lawrence between 2000 and 2020, burning about 194 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 2 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Equipment and vehicle use10
Debris and open burning2
Natural2
Arson/incendiarism2
Fireworks1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
29 September 2020Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionHARRELL
29 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionHUITING
11 September 2003Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named
2 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionSPOT
18 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionVANZEE
14 August 2001Naturalunder an acreMiller Volunteer Fire DepartmentALPHA TOWNSHIP
4 July 2002Fireworksunder an acreMiller Volunteer Fire DepartmentJONES LAKE
18 July 2014Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionSCHOENEBAUM

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hand County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Saint Lawrence: 4 producers. All of them still produce. 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
Gold Mine PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Hand County PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Lyle Williams PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Pangburn PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Hand 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
Miller2.7 miles8
Vayland7.5 miles8
Florence (historical)12.3 miles9
Miller Dale Colony12.3 miles7
Sweetland (historical)12.5 miles9
Ree Heights13.9 miles9
Burdette14.8 miles8
Danforth18.4 miles9

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 LawrenceAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3239862The 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 1265350. 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.