Rudebusch Corner, South Dakota

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Alto Township. It lies in ZIP code area 57273. The Survey maps it on the Enemy Swim Lake East quadrangle.

Rudebusch Corner within Roberts 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.

1953 USGS Milbank quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Milbank quadrangle1:250000
1970 USGS Enemy Swim Lake East quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Webster quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

17 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Rudebusch Corner between 1998 and 2012, burning about 400 acres in total. None 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
Debris and open burning	8
Fireworks	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Smoking	1
Arson/incendiarism	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
22 September 1998	Debris and open burning	104 acres	Sisseton Agency	PIES
10 September 2000	Debris and open burning	22 acres	Sisseton Agency	OWL LAKE
7 July 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Sisseton Agency	MILE MARKER
6 July 2006	Fireworks	1.6 acres	Sisseton Agency	OWL LAKE
10 July 2000	Fireworks	under an acre	Sisseton Agency	ORTLEY
30 April 2001	Smoking	80 acres	Sisseton Agency	ALTO
28 April 2001	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Sisseton Agency	OWLLAKE
22 April 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Sisseton Agency	ENSWIM1

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Spring Grove

Every fire recorded in Roberts 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
Spring Grove	6.0 miles	7
Ortley	7.0 miles	7
Goodwill	10.6 miles	6
Summit	10.6 miles	7
Peever	13.2 miles	12
Peever Flats	13.3 miles	12
Valley View Estates	15.7 miles	6
Wilmot	15.8 miles	6

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.

Wikidata item Q122548527

The 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 1261062. 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.