Ellingson, South Dakota

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1998. It stands in Horse Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 57640. The Survey maps it on the Cow Butte SE quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Ellingson within Perkins County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 7 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.

1954 USGS Lemmon quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Lemmon quadrangle1:250000
1983 USGS Cow Butte SE quadrangle1:24000
1984 USGS Lemmon quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1998 USGS Cow Butte SE quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

3 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Ellingson (historical) between 1999 and 2016, burning about 26 acres in total. None 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
Equipment and vehicle use	3

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
12 September 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	10 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	NASH
20 August 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	15 acres	Custer Gallatin National Forest	PASTURE 1-B
7 April 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	MERKEL

Every fire recorded in Perkins 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
Lodgepole	11.9 miles	7
Prairie City	23.5 miles	6
Strool	25.5 miles	6
White Butte	27.4 miles	7
Sorum	28.9 miles	7
Bison	32.3 miles	7
Date	35.9 miles	7
Summerville	37.3 miles	7

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 Ellingson (historical)	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q24061509	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 1264399. 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.