Rocky Ford, South Dakota

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Northeast Fall River unorganized territory. It lies in ZIP code area 57747. It lies near Sorghum Flat. The Survey maps it on the Cascade Springs quadrangle.

Rocky Ford within Fall River County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 15 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.

1902 USGS Edgemont quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
1950 USGS Cascade Springs quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1955 USGS Hot Springs quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1985 USGS Hot Springs quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1993 USGS Hot Springs quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

81 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 81 fires within 5 miles of Rocky Ford between 1993 and 2020, burning about 8,459 acres in total. 66 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
Natural	66
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Fireworks	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Debris and open burning	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
8 September 2016	Natural	16 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	PRESERVE
22 September 1994	Natural	7.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	DEVIL CANYON
9 August 2011	Natural	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	BRAINERD
9 August 2003	Natural	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
8 August 2004	Natural	1.4 acres	Montana/Dakotas State Office	NARROWS
7 August 2002	Natural	2.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	COUNTY RD. 11
6 August 1994	Natural	2.5 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	DICK CANYON
4 August 2009	Natural	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fall River County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Rocky Ford: 6 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Uranium. 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
Accidental No. 1	Uranium	Past Producer
Carabou	Uranium	Past Producer
Negro Gulch	Uranium	Past Producer
Shelton-Warren	Uranium	Past Producer
Too Late	Uranium	Past Producer
Washboard	Uranium	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Fall River 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
Heppner	3.7 miles	14
Cascade Springs	4.1 miles	15
Erskine	10.3 miles	14
Minnekahta	11.0 miles	15
Angostura	11.5 miles	16
Dudley	11.8 miles	16
Hot Springs	12.0 miles	19
Edgemont	12.1 miles	16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1262323. 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.