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Ravinia, South Dakota

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Ravinia town. It lies in ZIP code area 57356. The Survey maps it on the Ravinia quadrangle. 71 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,499 feet above sea level.

Ravinia within Charles Mix County

Population over time

2 figures

Ravinia grew from 61 to 71 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
201061
202071+10 (+16%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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

73 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 73 fires within 5 miles of Ravinia between 1999 and 2020, burning about 437 acres in total. 2 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/undetermined30
Debris and open burning19
Fireworks11
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Arson/incendiarism2
Recreation and ceremony2
Natural2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Other causes1
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
9 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionBRUNSING
6 September 2005Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresYankton AgencyA0805022
4 September 2005Fireworks1.1 acresYankton AgencyA0805021
21 September 1999Debris and open burning15 acresRavinia Volunteer Fire DepartmentBILL SPECHT
16 September 2008Debris and open burning2.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named
7 August 2006Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named
3 August 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named
29 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionDOOM

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Charles Mix 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 Ravinia: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Wagner Ravinia Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Charles Mix County

Storms near this place

27 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ravinia in 27 storm reports between 1997 and 2023: 20 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2008Thunderstorm WindRavinia$50,000Thunderstorm winds blew the roof off a house, and blew down trees.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindRavinia$10,000Thunderstorm winds blew down a 100 foot machine shed, and also blew down several trees.
August 2019FloodRavinia$5,000Several inches of water ponding over South Dakota Highway 50 east of Ravinia.
June 2020Flash FloodRavinia$2,000The eastbound lane of South Dakota Highway 46 was inundated by 6 to 8 inches of flowing water. Property damage costs are rough estimates.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindRavinia$2,000Several limbs from 4 to 5 inches in diameter were removed from trees. Property damage costs are rough estimates.
May 2020HailRavinia-Crop damages are insured losses. Information is provided by the United States Department of Agriculture.
September 2019HailRavinia-The road was half-covered by hail, mostly small, but some up to an inch in diameter.
May 2011HailRavinia-Large hail damaged a few vehicles.
May 2007Flash FloodRavinia-Heavy rain caused flash flooding of roads, ditches, fields, and other low areas. Some basement flooding was also reported.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindRavinia-Thunderstorm winds caused minor damage to several homes and other structures. The winds also caused tree and power line damage, with 8 inch diameter limbs broken off, and a power outage. The amount of damage was not known.
June 2023HailRavinia-no account filed
June 2023HailRavinia-no account filed
June 2020HailRavinia-no account filed
June 2020HailRavinia-no account filed
August 2019HailRavinia-no account filed
August 2019HailRavinia-no account filed
August 2018HailRavinia-no account filed
June 2017HailRavinia-no account filed
May 2016HailRavinia-no account filed
September 2015HailRavinia-no account filed
May 2015HailRavinia-no account filed
June 2013HailRavinia-no account filed
September 2006HailRavinia-no account filed
October 2001HailRavinia-no account filed
October 2001HailRavinia-no account filed
October 2001HailRavinia-no account filed
July 1997HailRavinia-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Charles Mix 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
Dezera4.4 miles11
Lake View Colony6.1 miles10
Lake Andes6.2 miles11
Pickstown7.4 miles10
Wagner8.1 miles11
Marty9.9 miles10
Dante14.5 miles9
Greenwood14.9 miles10

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 RaviniaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2021331The 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 1257292. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.