Evergreen, South Dakota

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the East Oglala Lakota unorganized territory. It lies in ZIP code area 57772. It lies near Iron Cloud Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Evergreen quadrangle.

Evergreen within Oglala Lakota County

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.

1955 USGS Hot Springs quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1981 USGS Evergreen quadrangle1:25000
1985 USGS Pine Ridge quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

447 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 447 fires within 5 miles of Evergreen between 1992 and 2020, burning about 10,644 acres in total. 34 started naturally. 3 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
Misuse of fire by a minor	110
Debris and open burning	108
Other causes	55
Fireworks	50
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	41
Natural	34
Equipment and vehicle use	32
Smoking	9
Recreation and ceremony	3
Arson/incendiarism	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2

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
7 September 2003	Fireworks	1.0 acres	Pine Ridge Agency	FLOWERS
7 September 2001	Natural	2.0 acres	Pine Ridge Agency	IRON CLOUD
6 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	175 acres	Pine Ridge Agency	RATTLE SNAKE
5 September 2006	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Pine Ridge Agency	CULPRIT
5 September 1998	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Pine Ridge Agency	MOOSE
4 September 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Pine Ridge Agency	BLOWOUT
4 September 1992	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Pine Ridge Agency	OBLAYA
3 September 2015	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Pine Ridge Agency	TREE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Oglala Lakota 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
Porcupine	5.2 miles	8
Sharps Corner	5.7 miles	9
Manderson	7.9 miles	8
Wounded Knee	11.8 miles	8
Kyle	12.5 miles	8
Rockyford	14.8 miles	10
Wakpamani	17.3 miles	9
Denby	17.4 miles	8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2728976. 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.