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Green Valley, South Dakota

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1957. It stands in the Central Pennington unorganized territory. It lies in ZIP code area 57703. The Survey maps it on the Box Elder quadrangle. 1,051 people lived here at the 2020 count.

Green Valley within Pennington County

Population over time

2 figures

Green Valley grew from 928 to 1,051 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.

YearPeople Change
2010928
20201,051+123 (+13%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

56 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 56 fires within 5 miles of Green Valley between 1992 and 2020, burning about 33,812 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 2 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/undetermined22
Equipment and vehicle use9
Misuse of fire by a minor7
Natural5
Fireworks5
Debris and open burning4
Arson/incendiarism2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Other causes1

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
5 September 2001Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreRapid City Fire Department01-3743
4 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression7000 ANDERSON
3 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionSOUTH SIDE MA
26 September 2012Equipment and vehicle use626 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionLONGVIEW CA
25 September 1998Debris and open burning2.0 acresConde Volunteer Fire DepartmentBOVEE
18 September 2020Equipment and vehicle use71 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionOLD FOLSOM CA
17 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionOLD FOLSOM COMMAND
14 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression44 JACKIE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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
Murphy1.0 miles19
Rapid Valley2.6 miles19
Warbonnet2.8 miles16
Twilight Hills Addition3.6 miles19
Box Elder5.8 miles16
Ashland Heights6.5 miles15
Rapid City7.1 miles19
Caputa7.4 miles8

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 ValleyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2047936The 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 1852436. 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.