Bend, South Dakota

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1957. It stands in the Belle Fourche-Cheyenne Valleys unorganized territory. It lies in ZIP code area 57719. The Survey maps it on the Bend quadrangle.

Bend within Meade County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 14 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.

1893 USGS Rapid quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1898 USGS Rapid quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1903 USGS Rapid quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
1953 USGS Bend quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1953 USGS Rapid City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Rapid City quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

12 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Bend between 1995 and 2020, burning about 6,996 acres in total. 2 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Natural	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Fireworks	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Debris and open burning	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
21 September 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	75 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	KETTELSON CA
19 August 1995	Equipment and vehicle use	1,400 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	COMBINE
8 July 2002	Natural	20 acres	Sorum/Reva Volunteer Fire Department	MILLETT 1
7 July 2007	Natural	5,000 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
4 July 2007	Power generation/transmission/distribution	1.5 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
31 July 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	ANTELOPE
24 July 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	BREEM RD.
13 July 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	288 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	KETELSON LOOP

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Viewfield

Every fire recorded in Meade 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Viewfield	9.6 miles	8
Hereford	12.6 miles	7
Blackhawk	16.6 miles	16
Wonderland Homes	17.7 miles	16
Summerset	17.9 miles	16
Piedmont	20.1 miles	18
Goiens (historical)	20.4 miles	18
Volunteer	20.7 miles	10

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 Bend	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q23709327	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 1260981. 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.