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Gossage Memorial, South Dakota

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1957. It stands in Rapid City City. It lies in ZIP code area 57701. It lies near Hangman Hill. The Survey maps it on the Rapid City West quadrangle.

Gossage Memorial within Pennington County

On record in Gossage Memorial

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 within a mile 7 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 16 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

298 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 298 fires within 5 miles of Gossage Memorial between 1992 and 2020, burning about 5,563 acres in total. 46 started naturally. 10 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined113
Natural46
Misuse of fire by a minor39
Equipment and vehicle use35
Debris and open burning18
Fireworks15
Arson/incendiarism10
Smoking9
Recreation and ceremony8
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Other causes1
Firearms and explosives use1

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
8 September 1998Equipment and vehicle use3,100 acresPhilip Volunteer Fire DepartmentVIALIANT
7 September 2003Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named
6 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named
5 September 2001Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionTRANSFORMER
5 September 2001Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreRapid City Fire Department01-3743
5 September 2001Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreRapid City Fire Department01-3735
5 September 2000Naturalunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionWESTBERRY COURT
5 September 1996Naturalunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionSUN RIDGE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pennington County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 18 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 18 workings within 5 miles of Gossage Memorial: 14 producers, 2 past producers, 2 unknowns. 14 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, Dimension, Gypsum-Anhydrite. 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
Hills MaterialsLimestone, GeneralProducerLimestone
Rapid City Lime Kilns & QuarriesCalciumProducer
South Dakota State Cement PlantLimestone, General, Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducerLimestone, Shale
Haydite PitClayProducer
Light Aggregates Inc KilnClayUnknown
Dakota Lime & Brick Co QuarryLimestone, DimensionUnknown
Everist Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, DimensionProducer
Gyp PitGypsum-AnhydriteProducer
Hills Materials Limestone QuarryLimestone, Dimension, Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Hoffman PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Pennington 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
Rapid City1.2 miles19
Arrowhead Estates2.8 miles16
Wildwood Addition2.8 miles16
Lakota Homes3.1 miles19
Sioux Village3.5 miles19
Schaeferville4.2 miles16
Colonial Pine Hills5.5 miles16
Twilight Hills Addition5.6 miles19

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.

Wikidata item Q122559050The 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 1261734. 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.