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South Canyon Country Estates, South Dakota

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1957. It stands in the Mount Rushmore unorganized territory. It lies in ZIP code area 57702. The Survey maps it on the Rapid City West quadrangle.

South Canyon Country Estates within Pennington County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 16 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

408 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 408 fires within 5 miles of South Canyon Country Estates between 1992 and 2020, burning about 5,660 acres in total. 122 started naturally. 16 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
Natural122
Debris and open burning74
Missing data/not specified/undetermined63
Recreation and ceremony45
Equipment and vehicle use29
Misuse of fire by a minor20
Arson/incendiarism16
Fireworks13
Power generation/transmission/distribution10
Smoking9
Firearms and explosives use3
Other causes2
Railroad operations and maintenance2

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
8 September 2003Naturalunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named
7 September 1997Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionHAYSTACK
6 September 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionELDER
5 September 2000Naturalunder an acreBlack Hills National ForestHILLTOP
5 September 2000Naturalunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionWESTBERRY COURT
5 September 1998Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionWOODLAND CT
5 September 1996Naturalunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionSUN RIDGE
4 September 2010Smokingunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionNEMO RD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pennington County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 14 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of South Canyon Country Estates: 10 producers, 2 past producers, 2 unknowns. 10 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, Dimension, Gypsum-Anhydrite, 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Light Aggregates Inc KilnClayUnknown
Rapid City Lime Kilns & QuarriesCalciumProducer
South Dakota State Cement PlantLimestone, General, Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducerLimestone, Shale
Dakota Lime and Brick Co.Limestone, GeneralProducerLimestone
Hills MaterialsLimestone, GeneralProducerLimestone
Dakota Lime & Brick Co QuarryLimestone, DimensionUnknown
Dakota Plaster Co PitGypsum-AnhydritePast Producer
Everist Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, DimensionProducer
Hills Materials Limestone QuarryLimestone, Dimension, Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Lange Gypsum QuarryGypsum-AnhydriteProducer

Every working recorded in Pennington 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
Ridgeland Heights1.3 miles16
Big Bend3.7 miles18
Schaeferville3.8 miles16
Hisega3.9 miles18
Johnson Siding4.1 miles18
McGee4.5 miles18
Thunderbird Homes Addition5.9 miles18
Gossage Memorial6.3 miles16

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 Q122567855The 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 1265086. 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.