Ashland Heights, South Dakota
15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1957. It stands in the Central Pennington unorganized territory. It lies in ZIP code area 57701. The Survey maps it on the Rapid City NW quadrangle. 678 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3,166 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresAshland Heights fell from 754 to 678 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 | 754 | |
| 2020 | 678 | -76 (-10%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 15 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.
- 1893 USGS Rapid quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1898 USGS Rapid quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1903 USGS Rapid quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1953 USGS Rapid City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1953 USGS Rapid City NW quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Rapid City quadrangle1:250000
Fires near this place
111 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 111 fires within 5 miles of Ashland Heights between 1996 and 2018, burning about 4,958 acres in total. 5 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.
| Reported cause | Fires |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 59 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 12 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 12 |
| Debris and open burning | 9 |
| Fireworks | 7 |
| Natural | 5 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | MEADE |
| 29 September 2001 | Natural | under an acre | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | HAYSTACK FIRE |
| 2 September 1998 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Rapid City Fire Department | 98-2859 |
| 18 September 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.5 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | BENNETT ROAD COUNTY ASSIST |
| 12 September 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Pennington County | 1980 COUNTRY RD |
| 5 August 2012 | Equipment and vehicle use | 475 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | WEST NIKE |
| 4 August 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | not named |
| 27 August 1998 | Natural | 5.0 acres | Eureka Volunteer Fire Department | RON KAUK |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Ashland Heights: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Clay. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Light Aggregates Inc Shale Pit | Clay | Producer | ||
| State Shale Pit | Clay | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Box Elder | 3.2 miles | 16 | |
| Twilight Hills Addition | 3.6 miles | 19 | |
| Rapid Valley | 4.8 miles | 19 | |
| Sioux Village | 5.0 miles | 19 | |
| Lakota Homes | 5.2 miles | 19 | |
| Murphy | 5.9 miles | 19 | |
| Green Valley | 6.5 miles | 16 | |
| Rapid City | 6.6 miles | 19 |
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 Ashland Heights | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2617167 | 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 1852435. 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.





