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Colonial Pine Hills, South Dakota

16 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 57702. The Survey maps it on the Rapid City West quadrangle. 1,903 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,078 feet above sea level.

Colonial Pine Hills within Pennington County

Population over time

2 figures

Colonial Pine Hills fell from 2,493 to 1,903 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
20102,493
20201,903-590 (-24%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 16 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

331 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 331 fires within 5 miles of Colonial Pine Hills between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,662 acres in total. 81 started naturally. 13 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
Natural81
Missing data/not specified/undetermined62
Recreation and ceremony57
Debris and open burning55
Equipment and vehicle use22
Power generation/transmission/distribution14
Arson/incendiarism13
Misuse of fire by a minor10
Fireworks9
Smoking3
Firearms and explosives use3
Other causes2

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 2009Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named
5 September 2001Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionTRANSFORMER
4 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreRapid City Fire Department01-3731
4 September 1992Naturalunder an acreBlack Hills National ForestUPPER VICTORIA GULCH
3 September 2011Natural9.2 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionDEATH CORNER
3 September 2008Naturalunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named
3 September 2008Naturalunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named
3 September 2004Naturalunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pennington County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Colonial Pine Hills: 2 producers, 1 prospect. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Silica, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Black Hills Silica Sand Co MineSilicaProspect
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Perli QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

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
Clarkson Addition0.6 miles16
Stratosphere Bowl2.7 miles19
Arrowhead Estates2.8 miles16
Wildwood Addition2.9 miles16
Rockerville4.1 miles19
McGee4.2 miles18
Gossage Memorial5.5 miles16
Hisega5.6 miles18

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 Colonial Pine HillsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2365993The 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 1867535. 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.