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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.

Ashland Heights within Pennington County

Population over time

2 figures

Ashland 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.

YearPeople Change
2010754
2020678-76 (-10%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 15 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

111 since 1996

Regional 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/undetermined59
Equipment and vehicle use12
Misuse of fire by a minor12
Debris and open burning9
Fireworks7
Natural5
Smoking3
Arson/incendiarism2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
9 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionMEADE
29 September 2001Naturalunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionHAYSTACK FIRE
2 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreRapid City Fire Department98-2859
18 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.5 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionBENNETT ROAD COUNTY ASSIST
12 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresPennington County1980 COUNTRY RD
5 August 2012Equipment and vehicle use475 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionWEST NIKE
4 August 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named
27 August 1998Natural5.0 acresEureka Volunteer Fire DepartmentRON KAUK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pennington County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Light Aggregates Inc Shale PitClayProducer
State Shale PitClayProducer

Every working recorded in Pennington 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
Box Elder3.2 miles16
Twilight Hills Addition3.6 miles19
Rapid Valley4.8 miles19
Sioux Village5.0 miles19
Lakota Homes5.2 miles19
Murphy5.9 miles19
Green Valley6.5 miles16
Rapid City6.6 miles19

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 HeightsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2617167The 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.