Rumpus Ridge, South Dakota

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Spring Valley Township. It lies in ZIP code area 57012. It stands on Battle Creek. The Survey maps it on the East Vermillion Lake quadrangle.

Rumpus Ridge within McCook County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 6 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.

1955 USGS Sioux Falls quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Sioux Falls quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS East Vermillion Lake quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Salem quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

11 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Rumpus Ridge between 2000 and 2015, burning about 85 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	7
Debris and open burning	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	GRASS FIRE
23 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	GRASS FIRE
16 August 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	GRASS FIRE
24 April 2015	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	FIRST WORKS
23 April 2000	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Monroe Volunteer Fire Department	ELMER WEIMAN
5 March 2000	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Monroe Volunteer Fire Department	BRIAN BIGGE
9 November 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	GRASS FIRE
9 October 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	GRASS FIRE

Every fire recorded in McCook 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
Canistota	5.5 miles	6
Montrose	8.1 miles	6
Stanley Corner	10.9 miles	6
Salem	14.5 miles	6
Golden View Colony	15.5 miles	6
Orland Colony	16.6 miles	6
Bridgewater	17.0 miles	11
Unityville	20.7 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 Q122551135

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 1261063. 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.