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Summerset, South Dakota

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1957. It stands in the Southwest Meade unorganized territory. It lies in ZIP code area 57718. The Survey maps it on the Blackhawk quadrangle. 2,972 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3,579 feet above sea level.

Summerset within Meade County

Population over time

2 figures

Summerset grew from 1,814 to 2,972 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
20101,814
20202,972+1,158 (+64%)

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

248 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 248 fires within 5 miles of Summerset between 1992 and 2020, burning about 7,912 acres in total. 69 started naturally. 3 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
Natural69
Debris and open burning54
Missing data/not specified/undetermined36
Equipment and vehicle use27
Misuse of fire by a minor16
Recreation and ceremony14
Fireworks12
Power generation/transmission/distribution8
Smoking5
Arson/incendiarism3
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Firearms and explosives use1
Other causes1

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 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.2 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionMARKER 51
8 September 2003Naturalunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named
7 September 2011Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionSOMERSET
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 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMeadeCHESTNUT FIRE
4 September 2002Naturalunder an acreBlack Hills National ForestSTAGEBARN RIDGE
4 September 2002Naturalunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionWESTBERRY 2

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Meade 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 Summerset: 4 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Gypsum-Anhydrite, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Zinc, Silver, Lead, Gold. 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
Alverson PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Double RainbowZinc, Silver, Lead, GoldPast Producer1876, 1881
Dakota Plaster Co PitGypsum-AnhydritePast Producer
S Dak Cement Comm Gyp QuarryGypsum-AnhydriteProducer
U S Gypsum Co Piedmont OperationGypsum-AnhydritePast Producer
U.S. GypsumGypsum-AnhydritePast ProducerGypsum

Every working recorded in Meade 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
Wonderland Homes0.9 miles16
Goiens (historical)2.6 miles18
Blackhawk3.3 miles16
Piedmont3.7 miles18
Carwye (historical)4.7 miles18
Tilford8.9 miles16
Runkel (historical)12.6 miles20
Buffalo Chip15.9 miles17

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.

Wikipedia article on SummersetAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3345855The 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 2096198. 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.