Viewfield, South Dakota

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Viewfield Township. It lies in ZIP code area 57761. The Survey maps it on the Viewfield quadrangle. It stands 2,812 feet above sea level.

Viewfield within Meade County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 8 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.

1953 USGS Rapid City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1953 USGS Viewfield quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Rapid City quadrangle1:250000
1984 USGS New Underwood quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

20 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Viewfield between 2000 and 2017, burning about 1,802 acres in total. 9 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
Natural	9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Equipment and vehicle use	4

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
3 August 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	CURLEW
25 August 2000	Natural	30 acres	Folsom Volunteer Fire Department	MARVIN MAUDE
23 August 2000	Natural	1.0 acres	Folsom Volunteer Fire Department	RAUSCH WARREN
23 August 2000	Natural	60 acres	Folsom Volunteer Fire Department	SANDER- IRELAND
23 August 2000	Natural	2.0 acres	Folsom Volunteer Fire Department	VORELMON
23 August 2000	Natural	120 acres	Folsom Volunteer Fire Department	SCOTT EDOFF
17 August 2000	Natural	30 acres	Folsom Volunteer Fire Department	KAISER- HWY 40
13 August 2000	Natural	1.0 acres	Folsom Volunteer Fire Department	OWEILL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Bend

Every fire 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Bend	9.6 miles	14
Hereford	12.6 miles	7
Haydraw	17.1 miles	8
Elm Springs	17.5 miles	7
Boneita Springs	21.4 miles	7
Dalzell	24.7 miles	7
Clough	25.4 miles	8
Union Center	25.5 miles	7

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 Viewfield	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22073145	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 1261075. 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.