Ree Heights, South Dakota
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Ree Heights town. It lies in ZIP code area 57371. The Survey maps it on the Ree Heights quadrangle. 59 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,732 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresRee Heights fell from 62 to 59 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 62 | |
| 2020 | 59 | -3 (-5%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 9 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1950 USGS Ree Heights quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Huron quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1954 USGS Huron quadrangle1:250000
- 1985 USGS Highmore quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
Fires near this place
15 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Ree Heights between 2000 and 2020, burning about 1,009 acres in total. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| Equipment and vehicle use | 8 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 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 2016 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | EAGLE PASS |
| 2 September 2000 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Ree Heights Volunteer Fire Department | DME |
| 6 July 2017 | Natural | under an acre | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | JOY |
| 29 July 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 80 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | EAGLE PASS |
| 16 July 2006 | Natural | 1.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | not named |
| 15 July 2016 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | DITTMAN |
| 12 July 2002 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Ree Heights Volunteer Fire Department | BLAIR-HUGHES |
| 9 April 2012 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | RAILROAD |
Storms near this place
4 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ree Heights in 4 storm reports between 1993 and 1994: 2 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 1994 | Tornado (F0) | Ree Heights | - | The tornado touched down intermittently beginning about four miles north of Ree Heights and was last reported about one mile south of Miller. The tornado caused minor damage as it passed over open country. |
| July 1994 | Hail | Ree Heights | - | no account filed |
| August 1993 | Hail | Ree Heights | - | no account filed |
| August 1993 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ree Heights | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Miller Dale Colony | 9.4 miles | 7 | |
| Miller | 11.2 miles | 8 | |
| Saint Lawrence | 13.9 miles | 8 | |
| Florence (historical) | 16.4 miles | 9 | |
| Sweetland (historical) | 16.8 miles | 9 | |
| Ames | 18.3 miles | 7 | |
| Polo | 18.6 miles | 8 | |
| Vayland | 21.3 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 Ree Heights | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2355886 | 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 1265335. 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.



