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Wildwood Addition, South Dakota

16 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 57702. The Survey maps it on the Rapid City West quadrangle.

Wildwood Addition within Pennington County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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.

Fires near this place

327 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 327 fires within 5 miles of Wildwood Addition between 1992 and 2020, burning about 7,359 acres in total. 62 started naturally. 11 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/undetermined103
Natural62
Debris and open burning39
Equipment and vehicle use36
Misuse of fire by a minor23
Recreation and ceremony23
Power generation/transmission/distribution11
Arson/incendiarism11
Fireworks9
Smoking7
Firearms and explosives use2
Other causes1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 September 2009Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named
8 September 1998Equipment and vehicle use3,100 acresPhilip Volunteer Fire DepartmentVIALIANT
6 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named
5 September 2001Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionTRANSFORMER
5 September 2001Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreRapid City Fire Department01-3743
5 September 2001Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreRapid City Fire Department01-3735
5 September 2000Naturalunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionWESTBERRY COURT
5 September 1996Naturalunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionSUN RIDGE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pennington County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 15 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of Wildwood Addition: 11 producers, 2 past producers, 2 unknowns. 11 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay, Limestone, Dimension. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Gyp PitGypsum-AnhydriteProducer
Hills MaterialsLimestone, GeneralProducerLimestone
Rapid City Lime Kilns & QuarriesCalciumProducer
South Dakota State Cement PlantLimestone, General, Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducerLimestone, Shale
Dakota Lime & Brick Co QuarryLimestone, DimensionUnknown
Haydite PitClayProducer
Hills Materials Limestone QuarryLimestone, Dimension, Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Light Aggregates Inc KilnClayUnknown
Dakota CementStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Arrowhead Estates0.1 miles16
Gossage Memorial2.8 miles16
Colonial Pine Hills2.9 miles16
Clarkson Addition3.3 miles16
Rapid City3.9 miles19
Stratosphere Bowl5.5 miles19
Ridgeland Heights5.7 miles16
McGee5.8 miles18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1265080. 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.