Heppner, South Dakota

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Northeast Fall River unorganized territory. It lies in ZIP code area 57747. The Survey maps it on the Heppner quadrangle. It stands 3,507 feet above sea level.

Heppner within Fall River County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 14 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.

1902 USGS Edgemont quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
1950 USGS Heppner quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1955 USGS Hot Springs quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1985 USGS Hot Springs quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1993 USGS Hot Springs quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

32 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 32 fires within 5 miles of Heppner between 1995 and 2020, burning about 537 acres in total. 23 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	23
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Fireworks	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
1 September 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	87 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	BITTER CREEK CA
9 August 2003	Natural	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
8 August 2004	Natural	1.4 acres	Montana/Dakotas State Office	NARROWS
4 August 2009	Natural	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
3 August 2009	Natural	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
3 August 2009	Natural	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
3 August 2007	Natural	5.3 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
25 August 2011	Natural	under an acre	Black Hills National Forest	ROCK GARDEN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fall River 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
Rocky Ford	3.7 miles	15
Cascade Springs	6.0 miles	15
Angostura	9.7 miles	16
Rumford	11.4 miles	15
Erskine	12.9 miles	14
Hot Springs	13.4 miles	19
Minnekahta	14.6 miles	15
Dudley	14.9 miles	16

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 Heppner	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22343641	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 1261804. 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.