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Caputa, South Dakota

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Rapid City East unorganized territory. It lies in ZIP code area 57725. The Survey maps it on the Caputa quadrangle. 32 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,907 feet above sea level.

Caputa within Pennington County

On record in Caputa

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 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

3 surveys from 8 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

21 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Caputa between 1992 and 2016, burning about 34,148 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/undetermined9
Equipment and vehicle use8
Debris and open burning2
Natural2

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 2010Equipment and vehicle use3.5 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionHAMMERQUIST RD
7 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined135 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionANTELOPE 2 CA
25 September 2012Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression154TH AVE
1 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use23 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionHAY FIELD
1 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionANTELOPE CREEK
28 August 2008Equipment and vehicle use18 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named
22 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionFARMINGDALE
22 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionIFR CA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pennington County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

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

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Phillips Sand & Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Pennington County

Storms near this place

25 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Caputa in 25 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 13 hail, 12 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2011HailCaputa$10,000no account filed
June 2012Thunderstorm WindCaputa$100Wind gusts estimated at 80 mph bent a flag pole.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindCaputa-SD mesonet recorded wind gust.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindCaputa-Wind gusts were estimated at 60 mph.
September 2016Thunderstorm WindCaputa-Wind gusts were estimated at 60 mph.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindCaputa-Wind gusts were estimated near 80 mph.
June 1998Thunderstorm WindCaputa-Some tree damage.
May 2023HailCaputa-no account filed
July 2023HailCaputa-no account filed
June 2023HailCaputa-no account filed
May 2022Thunderstorm WindCaputa-no account filed
August 2021HailCaputa-no account filed
September 2016HailCaputa-no account filed
June 2015HailCaputa-no account filed
August 2013HailCaputa-no account filed
June 2008HailCaputa-no account filed
August 2006Thunderstorm WindCaputa-no account filed
July 2005Thunderstorm WindCaputa-no account filed
July 2004HailCaputa-no account filed
July 2004Thunderstorm WindCaputa-no account filed
June 2003Thunderstorm WindCaputa-no account filed
June 2003HailCaputa-no account filed
July 2003HailCaputa-no account filed
August 2001HailCaputa-no account filed
July 2001Thunderstorm WindCaputa-no account filed

Every storm 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
Farmingdale5.7 miles8
Green Valley7.4 miles16
Warbonnet8.0 miles16
Murphy8.4 miles19
Box Elder9.4 miles16
Rapid Valley9.9 miles19
New Underwood10.3 miles8
Twilight Hills Addition10.6 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 CaputaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5037151The 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 1261407. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.