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Summerville, South Dakota

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1998. It stands in De Witt Township. It lies in ZIP code area 57638. It stands on Flat Creek. The Survey maps it on the Summerville quadrangle.

Summerville within Perkins County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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.

Fires near this place

23 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 23 fires within 5 miles of Summerville between 1994 and 2017, burning about 132 acres in total. 6 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/undetermined8
Natural6
Equipment and vehicle use5
Debris and open burning2
Smoking1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
5 September 2002Natural15 acresDakota Prairie National GrasslandsHUDGINS SPRING
2 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePerkins CountyLUTZ1
11 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.8 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionEAGLE
9 August 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionGLASS
8 August 2012Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionBOYNTON
8 August 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionHUGH GLASS
7 August 2005Naturalunder an acreDakota Prairie National GrasslandsGRIZZLY
30 August 1994Natural1.0 acresCuster Gallatin National Forestnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Perkins County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Summerville: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Perkins 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
Shadehill0.6 miles7
Lemmon11.6 miles6
White Butte15.1 miles7
Meadow17.0 miles6
Bison23.1 miles7
Coal Springs23.2 miles7
Lodgepole25.7 miles7
Chance25.7 miles7

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1261167. 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.