Sturgis, South Dakota

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 12 of 13 shown

• Bear ButteNational Historic Landmark · listed 1973
• Black Hills National Cemeterylisted 2016
• Erskine Schoollisted 1984
• Stephen and Maria Graf Houselisted 2002
• John and Elsie McMillan Houselisted 2015
• Sturgis Commercial Blocklisted 1975
• Sturgis High Schoollisted 2000
• Annie Tallent Houselisted 1976
• John G. Wenke Houselisted 1976
• Fort Meade Districtlisted 1973
• Jacob and Elizabeth Raskob Ranchlisted 1986
• South Dakota Dept. of Transportation Bridge No. 47-151-389listed 1993

Every listing in Meade County

Sturgis grew from 6,627 to 7,020 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.

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
• 1899 USGS Sturgis quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1901 USGS Deadwood quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
• 1915 USGS Sturgis quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1916 USGS Deadwood quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
• 1953 USGS Rapid City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1954 USGS Sturgis quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
• 1957 USGS Rapid City quadrangle1:250000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 141 fires within 5 miles of Sturgis between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,566 acres in total. 42 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Buffalo Chip
• Runkel (historical)

Every fire recorded in Meade County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Sturgis: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Niobium (Columbium), Tantalum, 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.

Every working recorded in Meade County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sturgis in 138 storm reports between 1993 and 2024: 91 hail, 34 thunderstorm wind, 5 flash flood, 5 flood. The reports record 5 injuries. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

Every storm recorded in Meade County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1265387. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.