Warbonnet, South Dakota

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1894 and the latest in 1977. It stands in the Rapid City East unorganized territory. It lies in ZIP code area 57703. It lies near Brennan Hill. The Survey maps it on the Hermosa NW quadrangle.

Warbonnet within Pennington County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 16 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.

1894 USGS Hermosa quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1901 USGS Hermosa quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
1953 USGS Hermosa NW quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1955 USGS Hot Springs quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1977 USGS Mount Rushmore quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

50 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 50 fires within 5 miles of Warbonnet between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,920 acres in total. 10 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	14
Equipment and vehicle use	10
Natural	10
Misuse of fire by a minor	6
Debris and open burning	3
Fireworks	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Smoking	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 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	HART RANCH
5 September 2001	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Rapid City Fire Department	01-3743
4 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	7000 ANDERSON
4 September 2002	Natural	1,000 acres	Rapid Valley Volunteer Fire Department	HWY 79 COMPLEX
4 September 2002	Natural	700 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	SOUTH 79 COMLPEX
3 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	SOUTH SIDE MA
29 September 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	BLACK GAP
18 September 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	71 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	OLD FOLSOM CA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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
Green Valley	2.8 miles	16
Murphy	3.1 miles	19
Rapid Valley	4.4 miles	19
Twilight Hills Addition	5.7 miles	19
Ajax	7.5 miles	16
Rapid City	7.6 miles	19
Wildwood Addition	7.9 miles	16
Gossage Memorial	8.0 miles	16

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.

Wikidata item Q122595852

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 1265709. 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.