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Pine Ridge, Nebraska

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Precinct 07. It lies in ZIP code area 69339. The Survey maps it on the Marsland NW quadrangle.

Pine Ridge within Dawes County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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

6 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Pine Ridge between 2002 and 2020, burning about 68 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.

Reported cause Fires
Natural4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Debris and open burning1

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
3 September 2007Natural5.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
3 August 2019Debris and open burning5.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
3 August 2014Natural7.0 acresNebraska National ForestMANSFIELD
25 August 2002Naturalunder an acreNebraska National ForestDEAD MAN
10 July 2020Natural50 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
18 April 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named

Every fire recorded in Dawes 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
Belmont7.2 miles8
Marsland9.8 miles11
Crawford13.4 miles8
Horn18.6 miles8
Whitney23.0 miles8
Dakota Junction32.2 miles9
Chadron34.1 miles8
Bordeaux39.7 miles8

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 Pine RidgeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q18388661The 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 835411. 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.