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Hill Ridge Development, South Dakota

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Split Rock Township. It lies in ZIP code area 57110. The Survey maps it on the Sioux Falls East quadrangle.

Hill Ridge Development within Minnehaha County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 9 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

63 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 63 fires within 5 miles of Hill Ridge Development between 1999 and 2020, burning about 1,696 acres in total. None 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/undetermined33
Fireworks6
Smoking6
Equipment and vehicle use6
Debris and open burning5
Arson/incendiarism2
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Recreation and ceremony1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
25 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined36 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionFULTON TREE LINE FIRE
14 September 2020Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionI90 FIRE
9 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression2012-429
9 July 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionHCFD10136
7 July 2012Smoking1.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression2012-392
6 July 2007Fireworksunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named
5 July 2007Fireworksunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named
4 July 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Minnehaha County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 19 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 19 workings within 5 miles of Hill Ridge Development: 8 unknowns, 7 past producers, 4 producers. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Quartzite QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown
Quartzite QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown
Quartzite QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Quartzite QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Quartzite QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Wisconsin Granite Co.Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Brandon City PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Brandon MaterialsSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
City of Sioux Falls Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Eagle Materials Co Cactus HillsSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Minnehaha 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
Pine Lakes Addition0.5 miles9
Ingberg Tracts0.6 miles9
Indian Hill Division1.1 miles8
Cactus Heights1.7 miles9
Split Rock Heights2.3 miles9
East Sioux Falls2.6 miles8
Anderson Subdivision3.0 miles9
Sioux Falls3.5 miles9

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 Q122569917The 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 1264937. 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.