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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.

Mount Vernon within Davison County

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

Population over time

2 figures

Mount 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.

YearPeople Change
2010462
2020461-1 (-0%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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

17 since 1999

Regional 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/undetermined11
Debris and open burning3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Natural1

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
9 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresMount Vernon Volunteer Fire DepartmentMT. VERNON
31 August 2008Debris and open burning3.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named
29 August 2001Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMount Vernon Volunteer Fire DepartmentMT. VERNON
6 July 2003Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named
20 July 2003Equipment and vehicle use60 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionTRAVIS HOSTLER
2 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression1
17 July 2005Natural2.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named
14 July 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Davison 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
Betts6.1 miles11
Loomis10.1 miles12
River Bluff Addition10.4 miles12
Metzgerville11.6 miles11
Mitchell12.2 miles12
Ethan18.3 miles11

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 VernonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2414572The 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.