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Dumont, South Dakota

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1894 and the latest in 1957. It stands in the South Lawrence unorganized territory. It lies in ZIP code area 57754. The Survey maps it on the Nahant quadrangle.

Dumont within Lawrence County

On record in Dumont

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

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

81 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 81 fires within 5 miles of Dumont between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,107 acres in total. 44 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
Natural44
Recreation and ceremony12
Debris and open burning8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Equipment and vehicle use2
Arson/incendiarism2
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
5 September 1995Naturalunder an acreBlack Hills National ForestWILBUR
5 September 1995Naturalunder an acreBlack Hills National ForestLOOSE BOOT
5 September 1995Naturalunder an acreBlack Hills National ForestNO. 4
5 September 1995Naturalunder an acreBlack Hills National ForestCHEYENNE
4 September 2002Naturalunder an acreBlack Hills National ForestICEBOX 2
4 September 1994Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreBlack Hills National ForestHORSE
3 September 2003Naturalunder an acreBlack Hills National ForestAPPLEBEES
27 September 2015Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionWOODVILLE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lawrence County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Dumont: 3 past producers, 1 producer, 1 occurrence. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Gold, Silver, Gold, Silver. 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
Anaconda Mining CompanyGold, SilverOccurrenceGold, Silver
AlamedaGold, SilverPast Producer
HomestakeGold, SilverProducer1876, 1974
Tilson Gulch Bog IronIronPast Producer
Tilson Gulch Bog Iron DepositIronPast Producer1893

Every working recorded in Lawrence County

Storms near this place

1 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dumont in 1 storm report in 2001: 1 hail. 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
August 2001HailDumont-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lawrence 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
Hanna3.0 miles17
Englewood4.1 miles17
Woodville4.3 miles17
Nahant4.9 miles15
Cheyenne Crossing5.5 miles17
Brownsville (historical)6.1 miles20
Gregory (historical)6.2 miles14
Flatiron I (historical)6.3 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1261600. 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.