Yellowhorse Ford, South Dakota

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the South Dewey unorganized territory. It lies in ZIP code area 57652. It stands on Jewett Creek. The Survey maps it on the Glencross SE quadrangle.

Yellowhorse Ford within Dewey 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.

1952 USGS Glencross SE quadrangle1:24000, 2 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

41 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 41 fires within 5 miles of Yellowhorse Ford between 1992 and 2017, burning about 212 acres in total. 6 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
Equipment and vehicle use	11
Fireworks	9
Natural	6
Debris and open burning	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	5
Other causes	1
Recreation and ceremony	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
Smoking	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
3 September 1996	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Cheyenne River Agency	ROBBY
25 September 1994	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Cheyenne River Agency	MOUND
23 September 2005	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Cheyenne River Agency	#575
8 August 2006	Natural	under an acre	Cheyenne River Agency	MONICA
8 August 1995	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Cheyenne River Agency	WHITEHORSE
3 August 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Cheyenne River Agency	BOOMER II
15 August 2006	Natural	13 acres	Cheyenne River Agency	D. LAWRENCE
15 August 2000	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Cheyenne River Agency	LAWRENCE

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
Whitehorse	4.8 miles	8
Promise	10.9 miles	8
La Plant	12.1 miles	7
Virginia	12.4 miles	9
Glencross	13.3 miles	7
Ridgeview	13.5 miles	7
Trail City	13.8 miles	7
Timber Lake	17.9 miles	8

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 Q122553229

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 1261153. 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.