Mount Vernon, South Dakota
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Mount Vernon City. It lies in ZIP code area 57363. The Survey maps it on the Mount Vernon quadrangle. 461 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,411 feet above sea level.
On record in Mount Vernon
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 2 records
- Henline, Ellis and Roberta Farmsteadlisted 2010
- Mount Vernon City Auditoriumlisted 2022
Population over time
2 figuresMount Vernon fell from 462 to 461 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 | 462 | |
| 2020 | 461 | -1 (-0%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 11 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1899 USGS Mitchell quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
- 1955 USGS Mitchell quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1959 USGS Mitchell quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1980 USGS Mount Vernon quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Mitchell quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1990 USGS Mitchell quadrangle1:250000
Fires near this place
17 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Mount Vernon between 1999 and 2020, burning about 271 acres in total. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 11 |
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Natural | 1 |
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 2001 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 20 acres | Mount Vernon Volunteer Fire Department | MT. VERNON |
| 31 August 2008 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | not named |
| 29 August 2001 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Mount Vernon Volunteer Fire Department | MT. VERNON |
| 6 July 2003 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | not named |
| 20 July 2003 | Equipment and vehicle use | 60 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | TRAVIS HOSTLER |
| 2 July 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | 1 |
| 17 July 2005 | Natural | 2.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | not named |
| 14 July 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 20 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Betts | 6.1 miles | 11 | |
| Loomis | 10.1 miles | 12 | |
| River Bluff Addition | 10.4 miles | 12 | |
| Metzgerville | 11.6 miles | 11 | |
| Mitchell | 12.2 miles | 12 | |
| Ethan | 18.3 miles | 11 |
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 Mount Vernon | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2414572 | 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 1256568. 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.





