Virginia, South Dakota

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the South Dewey unorganized territory. It lies in ZIP code area 57601. The Survey maps it on the Virginia quadrangle.

Virginia within Dewey County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 9 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.

1951 USGS Virginia quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1953 USGS McIntosh quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS McIntosh quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS La Plant quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

16 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Virginia between 1992 and 2017, burning about 1,119 acres in total. 13 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	13
Equipment and vehicle use	3

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
11 September 1996	Equipment and vehicle use	140 acres	Cheyenne River Agency	TONYS
10 September 1994	Natural	97 acres	Cheyenne River Agency	TERRY D-X
31 August 2005	Natural	22 acres	Cheyenne River Agency	HOLLENBECK
2 August 2012	Natural	under an acre	Cheyenne River Agency	VE
2 August 2005	Natural	under an acre	Cheyenne River Agency	BOBBY DX
11 August 2002	Natural	8.3 acres	Cheyenne River Agency	TED DX.
11 August 2002	Natural	under an acre	Cheyenne River Agency	GENE RYAN
5 July 2017	Natural	under an acre	Cheyenne River Agency	BOULDER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dewey 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
Promise	6.5 miles	8
La Plant	8.1 miles	7
Moreau	11.9 miles	7
Yellowhorse Ford	12.4 miles	8
Marksville	15.6 miles	7
Ridgeview	16.4 miles	7
Whitehorse	17.0 miles	8
Trail City	17.9 miles	7

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1261076. 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.