Volunteer, South Dakota

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1913 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Belle Fourche-Cheyenne Valleys unorganized territory. It lies in ZIP code area 57785. It stands on Bear Butte Creek. The Survey maps it on the Volunteer quadrangle.

Volunteer within Meade County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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.

1913 USGS Newell quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1951 USGS Volunteer quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1953 USGS Rapid City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Rapid City quadrangle1:250000
1983 USGS Belle Fourche quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

17 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Volunteer between 2006 and 2014, burning about 2,994 acres in total. 8 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	8
Equipment and vehicle use	8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
2 August 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	298 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	BENNY
2 August 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	198 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
14 August 2006	Natural	250 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
12 August 2007	Natural	350 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
12 August 2006	Natural	520 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
12 August 2006	Natural	520 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
10 August 2006	Natural	520 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
27 July 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Meade County

Storms near this place

1 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Volunteer in 1 storm report in 2000: 1 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
September 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Volunteer	-	no account filed

Every storm 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
Bear Butte	9.6 miles	14
Hereford	15.2 miles	7
Buffalo Chip	16.3 miles	17
Clough	18.0 miles	8
Bend	20.7 miles	14
Sturgis	21.1 miles	18
Tilford	21.5 miles	16
Haydraw	22.3 miles	8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1261077. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.