Murphy, South Dakota

19 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 Rapid City East quadrangle.

Murphy within Pennington County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 19 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.

1893 USGS Rapid quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1898 USGS Rapid quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1903 USGS Rapid quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
1953 USGS Rapid City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1953 USGS Rapid City East quadrangle1:24000, 7 printings
1957 USGS Rapid City quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

73 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 73 fires within 5 miles of Murphy between 1992 and 2020, burning about 33,882 acres in total. 11 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/undetermined	27
Natural	11
Misuse of fire by a minor	10
Equipment and vehicle use	9
Debris and open burning	5
Fireworks	5
Smoking	2
Arson/incendiarism	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Other causes	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
5 September 2001	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Rapid City Fire Department	01-3743
4 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	7000 ANDERSON
3 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	SOUTH SIDE MA
26 September 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	626 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	LONGVIEW CA
25 September 1998	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Conde Volunteer Fire Department	BOVEE
18 September 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	71 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	OLD FOLSOM CA
17 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	OLD FOLSOM COMMAND
14 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	44 JACKIE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pennington County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Murphy: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Light Aggregates Inc Shale Pit	Clay	Producer

Every working 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Green Valley	1.0 miles	16
Rapid Valley	1.6 miles	19
Twilight Hills Addition	2.7 miles	19
Warbonnet	3.1 miles	16
Box Elder	5.6 miles	16
Ashland Heights	5.9 miles	15
Rapid City	6.0 miles	19
Lakota Homes	6.5 miles	19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1261126. 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.