Dakota Dunes, South Dakota

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1993. It stands in Big Sioux Township. It lies in ZIP code area 57049. The Survey maps it on the Sioux City South quadrangle. 4,020 people lived here at the 2020 count.

Dakota Dunes within Union County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 13 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.

1955 USGS Sioux City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1958 USGS Sioux City quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Sioux City quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Sioux City South quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1986 USGS Sioux City South quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1993 USGS Sioux City South quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

18 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Dakota Dunes between 1999 and 2020, burning about 80 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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
Debris and open burning	6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Fireworks	3
Recreation and ceremony	2
Smoking	2
Arson/incendiarism	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
6 July 1999	Fireworks	under an acre	North Sioux Volunteer Fire Department	DAKOTA DUNES
5 July 2002	Fireworks	under an acre	North Sioux Volunteer Fire Department	I-29 MM 4
4 July 2005	Fireworks	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
26 June 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	101 COTTS
13 May 2017	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	HOFFMAN RD
7 April 2020	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	COUNTRY ACRES
23 April 2009	Recreation and ceremony	3.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
16 April 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	1001 RIVER DRIVE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Union 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 Dakota Dunes: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. 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
	Unknown	Clay	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Union 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
North Sioux City	2.7 miles	12
McCook Lake	3.9 miles	22
Jefferson	8.8 miles	22
Elk Point	17.1 miles	20
Richland	20.7 miles	19
Junction City	26.0 miles	18
Spink	28.7 miles	19
Midway	30.6 miles	18

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 Dakota Dunes	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3475326	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 1829118. 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.