Redowl, South Dakota

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Belle Fourche-Cheyenne Valleys unorganized territory. It lies in ZIP code area 57787. It stands on Indian Creek. The Survey maps it on the Redowl quadrangle.

Redowl within Meade 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
1957 USGS Rapid City quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Redowl quadrangle1:24000
1984 USGS Camp Creek quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

12 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Redowl between 2000 and 2020, burning about 2,612 acres in total. 6 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	6
Debris and open burning	4
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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 2000	Natural	20 acres	Enning Volunteer Fire Department	SPRING AND MARELAND
20 September 2005	Natural	10 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
3 August 2006	Natural	2,500 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
23 August 2020	Natural	60 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	CAMMACK BROS.
19 August 2010	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	KEFFELER
5 July 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	SPRINGS HAY FIELD
20 July 2017	Natural	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	D WILCOX
12 July 2006	Natural	1.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Meade 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
Stoneville	5.9 miles	7
Enning	8.5 miles	8
White Owl	9.8 miles	7
Union Center	11.3 miles	7
Fairpoint	13.4 miles	7
Opal	14.4 miles	7
Marcus	15.1 miles	7
Clough	15.6 miles	8

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 Redowl	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q23709422	The 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 1257331. 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.