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Red Shirt, South Dakota

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the West Oglala Lakota unorganized territory. It lies in ZIP code area 57744. It stands on Red Shirt Creek. The Survey maps it on the Red Shirt quadrangle. It stands 2,694 feet above sea level.

Red Shirt within Oglala Lakota County

Topographic sheets covering this place

3 surveys from 9 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

76 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 76 fires within 5 miles of Red Shirt between 1992 and 2020, burning about 4,484 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 6 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
Debris and open burning19
Natural13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Misuse of fire by a minor7
Fireworks6
Equipment and vehicle use6
Arson/incendiarism6
Other causes4
Smoking1
Recreation and ceremony1
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
6 September 2017Equipment and vehicle use50 acresPine Ridge AgencySUBURBAN
6 September 1995Arson/incendiarism20 acresPine Ridge AgencyRAPP
28 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresPine Ridge Agency2 BULLS
27 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePine Ridge AgencyBRUCE
26 September 2002Equipment and vehicle useunder an acrePine Ridge AgencyBOOM
23 September 2012Debris and open burning28 acresPine Ridge AgencyVILLAGE
20 September 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionGARBAGE PIT
2 September 1995Arson/incendiarism200 acresPine Ridge AgencySHERMAN

Every fire recorded in Oglala Lakota County

Storms near this place

30 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Red Shirt in 30 storm reports between 2000 and 2024: 17 hail, 12 thunderstorm wind, 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
May 2019FloodRed Shirt$100,000Runoff from heavy rain caused overland flooding and flooding along the White River, White Clay Creek, American Horse Creek, and smaller tributaries. Water covered several roads, including American Horse Creek Road southwest of Kyle. The White River crested two feet over flood stage (15 feet) at the Nebraska-South Dakota State Line and just over two feet above flood stage (19 feet) near Oglala.
June 2013HailRed Shirt$100,000no account filed
August 2013HailRed Shirt$25,000no account filed
August 2011HailRed Shirt$5,000no account filed
June 2005Thunderstorm WindRed Shirt$5,000no account filed
May 2024Thunderstorm WindRed Shirt-Winds gusts were estimated at around 60 mph.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindRed Shirt-Wind gusts were estimated at 60 mph.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindRed Shirt-The spotter estimated wind gusts at 60 mph.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindRed Shirt-Wind gusts were estimated at 60 mph.
May 2014Thunderstorm WindRed Shirt-Wind gusts were estimated at 60 mph.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindRed Shirt-Ten inch diameter tree branches were downed by the wind.
June 2012Thunderstorm WindRed Shirt-Wind gusts were estimated at 60 mph.
June 2008HailRed Shirt-Quarter to tennis ball sized hail fell in northwestern Shannon County.
April 2024HailRed Shirt-no account filed
June 2023HailRed Shirt-no account filed
June 2015HailRed Shirt-no account filed
August 2008Thunderstorm WindRed Shirt-no account filed
March 2007HailRed Shirt-no account filed
August 2007HailRed Shirt-no account filed
August 2007Thunderstorm WindRed Shirt-no account filed
June 2006HailRed Shirt-no account filed
June 2006HailRed Shirt-no account filed
June 2006HailRed Shirt-no account filed
July 2006Thunderstorm WindRed Shirt-no account filed
June 2005HailRed Shirt-no account filed
July 2005HailRed Shirt-no account filed
June 2004HailRed Shirt-no account filed
June 2004HailRed Shirt-no account filed
July 2003HailRed Shirt-no account filed
May 2000Thunderstorm WindRed Shirt-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Oglala Lakota 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
Rockyford24.1 miles10
Sharps Corner32.7 miles9
Oglala34.1 miles8
Manderson37.5 miles8
Evergreen37.6 miles8
Slim Butte41.0 miles8
Kyle41.8 miles8
Porcupine42.2 miles8

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 Red ShirtAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q11171720The 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 1262279. 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.

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.