Richmond Heights, South Dakota

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Lincoln Township. It lies in ZIP code area 57401. The Survey maps it on the Richmond quadrangle.

Richmond Heights within Brown County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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.

1899 USGS Ellendale quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1954 USGS Aberdeen quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1956 USGS Aberdeen quadrangle1:250000
1970 USGS Richmond quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Elm River quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

44 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 44 fires within 5 miles of Richmond Heights between 2004 and 2020, burning about 631 acres in total. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	28
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Recreation and ceremony	5
Debris and open burning	2
Fireworks	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
7 September 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	LOCOMOTIVE
25 September 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	100 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	ALBRECHT
24 August 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	HOLDING POND
2 August 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
10 August 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	16ARF45
8 July 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	17ARF36
6 July 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	17ARF34B
4 July 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	17ARF31

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Brown 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
Pleasant Vally Development	1.0 miles	8
Richfield Heights	1.9 miles	8
Richmond Lake Heights Development	2.3 miles	8
Richmond	2.7 miles	8
Gederos Estates	3.2 miles	8
Fisher Estates	3.2 miles	8
Harlin Addition	3.4 miles	10
Bieglers First Addition	3.8 miles	8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1263435. 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.