Green Grass, South Dakota

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the North Dewey unorganized territory. It lies in ZIP code area 57625. It stands on Green Grass Creek. The Survey maps it on the Parade NW quadrangle. 21 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,860 feet above sea level.

Green Grass within Dewey County

Population over time

2 figures

Green Grass fell from 35 to 21 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

Year	People	Change
2010	35
2020	21	-14 (-40%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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.

1952 USGS Parade NW quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1953 USGS McIntosh quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS McIntosh quadrangle1:250000
1986 USGS Timber Lake quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

96 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 96 fires within 5 miles of Green Grass between 1992 and 2020, burning about 450 acres in total. 24 started naturally. 4 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
Natural	24
Equipment and vehicle use	20
Misuse of fire by a minor	12
Debris and open burning	11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10
Fireworks	5
Arson/incendiarism	4
Other causes	4
Recreation and ceremony	4
Smoking	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
9 September 1998	Natural	under an acre	Cheyenne River Agency	CURTIS
4 September 2002	Natural	1.3 acres	Cheyenne River Agency	GREENGRASS
29 September 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Cheyenne River Agency	BLUE
29 September 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	22 acres	Cheyenne River Agency	GREEN
29 September 2000	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Cheyenne River Agency	G.G.CAMP
26 September 1997	Equipment and vehicle use	22 acres	Cheyenne River Agency	RU156
23 September 2012	Other causes	under an acre	Cheyenne River Agency	SQUIRREL
21 September 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Cheyenne River Agency	BOO BOO

Every fire recorded in Dewey 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
North Eagle Butte	11.5 miles	7
Eagle Butte	11.7 miles	7
Parade	12.6 miles	7
Bear Creek	13.0 miles	7
Lantry	14.6 miles	7
Firesteel	17.6 miles	7
Isabel	18.2 miles	7
Thatcher	19.8 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 Green Grass	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2296959	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 1255353. 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.