Twilight Hills Addition, South Dakota

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1957. It stands in Rapid City City. It lies in ZIP code area 57703. The Survey maps it on the Rapid City East quadrangle.

Twilight Hills Addition within Pennington County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 19 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.

1893 USGS Rapid quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1898 USGS Rapid quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1903 USGS Rapid quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
1953 USGS Rapid City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1953 USGS Rapid City East quadrangle1:24000, 7 printings
1957 USGS Rapid City quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

202 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 202 fires within 5 miles of Twilight Hills Addition between 1992 and 2020, burning about 4,242 acres in total. 17 started naturally. 4 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	94
Misuse of fire by a minor	32
Equipment and vehicle use	23
Natural	17
Debris and open burning	11
Fireworks	11
Smoking	6
Arson/incendiarism	4
Recreation and ceremony	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Other causes	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
8 September 1998	Equipment and vehicle use	3,100 acres	Philip Volunteer Fire Department	VIALIANT
7 September 2003	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
6 September 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
5 September 2001	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Rapid City Fire Department	01-3743
5 September 2001	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Rapid City Fire Department	01-3735
4 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	7000 ANDERSON
4 September 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	3.5 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
3 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	SOUTH SIDE MA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pennington County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Twilight Hills Addition: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Light Aggregates Inc Shale Pit	Clay	Producer
	State Shale Pit	Clay	Producer

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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Rapid Valley	1.2 miles	19
Murphy	2.7 miles	19
Ashland Heights	3.6 miles	15
Green Valley	3.6 miles	16
Lakota Homes	4.3 miles	19
Sioux Village	4.4 miles	19
Rapid City	4.5 miles	19
Box Elder	4.7 miles	16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1265092. 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.