Fox Ridge, South Dakota

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the North Meade unorganized territory. It lies in ZIP code area 57626. It stands on Fox Ridge. The Survey maps it on the Opal West quadrangle.

Fox Ridge within Meade County

Topographic sheets covering this place

3 surveys from 6 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.

1953 USGS Rapid City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Rapid City quadrangle1:250000
1984 USGS Camp Creek quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

5 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Fox Ridge between 2002 and 2006, burning about 91 acres in total. 5 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
Natural	5

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
26 August 2003	Natural	1.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
19 July 2006	Natural	10 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
12 July 2006	Natural	10 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
29 June 2002	Natural	40 acres	Enning Volunteer Fire Department	UNKNOWN
28 June 2002	Natural	30 acres	Opal Volunteer Fire Department	AUDEY'S

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Meade 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 Fox Ridge: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
	Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Meade 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
Maurine	4.1 miles	7
Opal	8.1 miles	7
Cedar Canyon	9.0 miles	8
Avance (historical)	15.6 miles	7
Mud Butte	18.7 miles	7
Stoneville	19.3 miles	7
Redowl	20.5 miles	7
Sulphur	22.1 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 Fox Ridge	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q24061513	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 1260960. 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.