Wessington Springs, 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 10 records

• Harmony Friends Churchlisted 2015
• Jerauld County Courthouselisted 1993
• Methodist Episcopal Church of Wessington Springslisted 1999
• Municipal Field Houselisted 2000
• Shakespeare Garden and Shay Houselisted 1979
• Robert S. Vessey Houselisted 1978
• Wessington Springs Carnegie Librarylisted 1999
• Wessington Springs Opera Houselisted 1976
• H.P. Will Houselisted 2003
• Hawkeye Valley Milllisted 2013

Wessington Springs fell from 956 to 771 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.

• 1953 USGS Huron quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1954 USGS Huron quadrangle1:250000
• 1973 USGS Wessington Springs quadrangle1:24000
• 1985 USGS Huron quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Wessington Springs between 2000 and 2020, burning about 382 acres in total. 4 started naturally. None was 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:

• Lane
• Crow Lake

Every fire recorded in Jerauld County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Wessington Springs: 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.

Every working recorded in Jerauld 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 1258872. 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.