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.
Population over time
2 figuresSpring 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 268 | |
| 2020 | 236 | -32 (-12%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 5 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1955 USGS Martin quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Martin quadrangle1:250000
- 1969 USGS Spring Creek quadrangle1:24000
- 1983 USGS Martin quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
295 since 1992Regional 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 minor | 62 |
| Natural | 52 |
| Debris and open burning | 43 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 42 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 29 |
| Fireworks | 28 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 18 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 9 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 6 |
| Other causes | 5 |
| Smoking | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 September 1997 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Rosebud Agency | DROP OFF |
| 5 September 2002 | Natural | 4.0 acres | Rosebud Agency | TR.#46 |
| 4 September 1996 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Rosebud Agency | HAND BULL |
| 4 September 1996 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Rosebud Agency | 1540 |
| 3 September 2000 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | Rosebud Agency | TWISTER |
| 3 September 1995 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Rosebud Agency | 345 |
| 28 September 1999 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | Rosebud Agency | SPRING CK. |
| 27 September 1993 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.5 acres | Rosebud Agency | CRAZY CAT |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rosebud Sioux Ex A 43-2 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Saint Francis | 6.5 miles | 5 | |
| Two Strike | 10.2 miles | 5 | |
| Rosebud | 12.0 miles | 5 | |
| Parmelee | 14.2 miles | 5 | |
| Lakeview | 14.6 miles | 5 | |
| Soldier Creek | 15.9 miles | 5 | |
| Olsonville | 21.9 miles | 5 | |
| Mission | 23.3 miles | 5 |
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 Creek | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2019606 | 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 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.



