Turkey Ridge, South Dakota

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Salem Township. It lies in ZIP code area 57036. The Survey maps it on the Turkey Ridge quadrangle.

Turkey Ridge within Turner County

On record in Turkey Ridge

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Salem Township Bridge Number E-1listed 2000 · 0.3 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 11 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.

1898 USGS Parker quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
1955 USGS Sioux Falls quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Sioux Falls quadrangle1:250000
1970 USGS Turkey Ridge quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Freeman quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

19 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Turkey Ridge between 1999 and 2019, burning about 510 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
Debris and open burning	10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8
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
7 September 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
19 August 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	250 acres	Philip Volunteer Fire Department	FORTUNE
6 July 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Turner County	SMALLSPOT
16 July 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	REPEAT
29 June 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
19 April 2008	Debris and open burning	1.5 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
18 April 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	DOUG LARSEN
1 April 2003	Debris and open burning	10 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Turner 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 Valley	2.8 miles	11
Cameron Colony	3.9 miles	11
Hurley	10.4 miles	11
Viborg	11.7 miles	11
Marion	12.4 miles	11
Parker	13.0 miles	11
Hooker	13.8 miles	11
Davis	15.1 miles	10

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 Turkey Ridge	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q23709435	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 1261071. 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.