Pedro, South Dakota

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Northeast Pennington unorganized territory. It lies in ZIP code area 57790. It stands on Deep Creek. The Survey maps it on the Pedro quadrangle.

Pedro within Pennington County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 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.

1953 USGS Rapid City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1955 USGS Pedro quadrangle1:24000
1957 USGS Rapid City quadrangle1:250000
1984 USGS New Underwood quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

8 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Pedro between 2005 and 2020, burning about 2,089 acres in total. 5 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	5
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
30 September 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	608 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	RODWAY
30 September 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	608 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	PLAINVIEW CA
2 August 2005	Natural	500 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	O'GRADY
10 August 2009	Natural	30 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
1 August 2005	Natural	289 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	RIVER BOTTOM
6 July 2018	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	LINK
7 June 2006	Natural	51 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
17 June 2006	Natural	3.0 acres	Montana/Dakotas State Office	PEDRO 2

Every fire 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
Creighton	12.3 miles	7
Wasta	29.8 miles	8
Quinn	29.8 miles	8
Wall	30.2 miles	8
Wicksville	33.4 miles	9
Owanka	37.0 miles	9
Mawl Springs	42.8 miles	8
New Underwood	44.2 miles	8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1261055. 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.