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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.

Ree Heights within Hand County

Population over time

2 figures

Ree 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.

YearPeople Change
201062
202059-3 (-5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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

15 since 2000

Regional 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 use8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Natural2
Debris and open burning1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
30 September 2016Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionEAGLE PASS
2 September 2000Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreRee Heights Volunteer Fire DepartmentDME
6 July 2017Naturalunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionJOY
29 July 2019Equipment and vehicle use80 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionEAGLE PASS
16 July 2006Natural1.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named
15 July 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionDITTMAN
12 July 2002Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreRee Heights Volunteer Fire DepartmentBLAIR-HUGHES
9 April 2012Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionRAILROAD

Every fire recorded in Hand County

Storms near this place

4 since 1993

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 1994Tornado (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 1994HailRee Heights-no account filed
August 1993HailRee Heights-no account filed
August 1993Thunderstorm WindRee Heights-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Hand 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
Miller Dale Colony9.4 miles7
Miller11.2 miles8
Saint Lawrence13.9 miles8
Florence (historical)16.4 miles9
Sweetland (historical)16.8 miles9
Ames18.3 miles7
Polo18.6 miles8
Vayland21.3 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 Ree HeightsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2355886The 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.