River Bluff Addition, South Dakota

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Mitchell unorganized territory. It lies in ZIP code area 57301. The Survey maps it on the Mitchell quadrangle.

River Bluff Addition within Davison County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 12 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 Mitchell quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
1955 USGS Mitchell quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Mitchell quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1959 USGS Mitchell quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Mitchell quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1990 USGS Mitchell quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

62 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 62 fires within 5 miles of River Bluff Addition between 1999 and 2015, burning about 768 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 2 were 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	27
Debris and open burning	19
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Recreation and ceremony	2
Smoking	2
Arson/incendiarism	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Fireworks	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Other causes	1
Natural	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
29 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
12 September 2000	Smoking	1.0 acres	Mitchell Fire Department	CIG. BUTT
3 August 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Mitchell Fire Department	JUST WASHED THE SURBURBAN FIRE
24 August 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
13 August 2001	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	HOFFE
6 July 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
4 July 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
31 July 2007	Railroad operations and maintenance	2.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Davison County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 13 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of River Bluff Addition: 5 unknowns, 5 producers, 3 past producers. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, General. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Quarry Chalk	Limestone, General	Unknown
Buchman Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Butts Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Graham Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Mac Loon Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Morrison Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Davison 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
Mitchell	2.5 miles	12
Betts	4.7 miles	11
Loomis	4.7 miles	12
Mount Vernon	10.4 miles	11
Ethan	13.4 miles	11
Metzgerville	16.8 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1264359. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.