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Spring Creek, South Dakota

5 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the West Todd unorganized territory. It lies in ZIP code area 57572. It lies near Sawmill Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Spring Creek quadrangle. 236 people lived here at the 2020 count.

Spring Creek within Todd County

Population over time

2 figures

Spring Creek fell from 268 to 236 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
2010268
2020236-32 (-12%)

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

295 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 295 fires within 5 miles of Spring Creek between 1992 and 2020, burning about 21,987 acres in total. 52 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
Misuse of fire by a minor62
Natural52
Debris and open burning43
Arson/incendiarism42
Missing data/not specified/undetermined29
Fireworks28
Equipment and vehicle use18
Power generation/transmission/distribution9
Recreation and ceremony6
Other causes5
Smoking1

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
6 September 1997Natural1.0 acresRosebud AgencyDROP OFF
5 September 2002Natural4.0 acresRosebud AgencyTR.#46
4 September 1996Debris and open burning5.0 acresRosebud AgencyHAND BULL
4 September 1996Arson/incendiarismunder an acreRosebud Agency1540
3 September 2000Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreRosebud AgencyTWISTER
3 September 1995Debris and open burningunder an acreRosebud Agency345
28 September 1999Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreRosebud AgencySPRING CK.
27 September 1993Arson/incendiarism1.5 acresRosebud AgencyCRAZY CAT

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 Spring Creek: 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
Saint Francis6.5 miles5
Two Strike10.2 miles5
Rosebud12.0 miles5
Parmelee14.2 miles5
Lakeview14.6 miles5
Soldier Creek15.9 miles5
Olsonville21.9 miles5
Mission23.3 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 Spring CreekAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2019606The 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 1258249. 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.