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Ridgeview, South Dakota

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the South Dewey unorganized territory. It lies in ZIP code area 57625. The Survey maps it on the Ridgeview quadrangle. It stands 2,362 feet above sea level.

Ridgeview within Dewey 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.

Fires near this place

61 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 61 fires within 5 miles of Ridgeview between 1992 and 2020, burning about 478 acres in total. 20 started naturally. 1 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 use25
Natural20
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Debris and open burning3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Smoking2
Arson/incendiarism1

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
4 September 1995Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreCheyenne River AgencyRIDGEVIEW
24 September 2009Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreCheyenne River AgencyHOT BEARING
20 September 1997Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreCheyenne River AgencyMROUSSEAU
1 September 2005Smokingunder an acreCheyenne River AgencyERIDGEVIEW
8 August 2005Natural2.0 acresCheyenne River AgencyCLNT SIMON
8 August 2003Equipment and vehicle use7.8 acresCheyenne River AgencyHEITT
6 August 2010Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreCheyenne River AgencyBALE BANDIT
6 August 2010Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreCheyenne River AgencyOVERKILL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dewey County

Storms near this place

16 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ridgeview in 16 storm reports between 1994 and 2023: 11 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind. 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 2023Thunderstorm WindRidgeview-The South Dakota Department of Transportation weather station a mile northeast of Ridgeview recorded a wind gust of 63 mph.
April 2022HailRidgeview-The large hail broke vehicle and house windows.
May 2016Thunderstorm WindRidgeview-Sixty mph winds were estimated.
August 2016Thunderstorm WindRidgeview-Sixty mph winds were estimated.
July 2008HailRidgeview-Golf ball sized hail broke the windshield on a truck.
July 2013HailRidgeview-no account filed
June 2008HailRidgeview-no account filed
August 2006Thunderstorm WindRidgeview-no account filed
August 2006Thunderstorm WindRidgeview-no account filed
August 2006HailRidgeview-no account filed
July 2005HailRidgeview-no account filed
July 2005HailRidgeview-no account filed
July 2005HailRidgeview-no account filed
July 2005HailRidgeview-no account filed
August 2000HailRidgeview-no account filed
July 1994HailRidgeview-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Dewey 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
Thatcher8.0 miles7
La Plant8.9 miles7
Yellowhorse Ford13.5 miles8
Whitehorse13.6 miles8
Virginia16.4 miles9
Parade16.7 miles7
Promise20.0 miles8
Marksville22.4 miles7

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 RidgeviewAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7332793The 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 1261134. 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.