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McVey Fire, the Glossary

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The McVey Fire was a wildfire that occurred in July 1939 in the Black Hills of South Dakota, United States.[1]

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Table of Contents

  1. 19 relations: Ancestry.com, Aspen, Bighorn National Forest, Biodiversity, Black Hills, Black Hills National Forest, Civilian Conservation Corps, Controlled burn, Denver, Harney National Forest, Hill City, South Dakota, List of South Dakota wildfires, Pinus ponderosa, Prunus virginiana, Shoshone National Forest, South Dakota, United States Forest Service, White-tailed deer, Wildfire.

  2. 1930s wildfires
  3. 1939 fires in the United States
  4. 1939 in South Dakota
  5. 20th-century wildfires in the United States
  6. Civilian Conservation Corps in South Dakota
  7. Fires in South Dakota
  8. July 1939 events
  9. Natural disasters in South Dakota

Ancestry.com

Ancestry.com LLC is an American genealogy company based in Lehi, Utah.

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Aspen

Aspen is a common name for certain tree species; some, but not all, are classified by botanists in the section ''Populus'', of the Populus genus.

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Bighorn National Forest

The Bighorn National Forest is a U.S. National Forest located in northern Wyoming, United States and consists of over 1.1 million acres (4,500 km2).

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Biodiversity

Biodiversity (or biological diversity) is the variety and variability of life on Earth.

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Black Hills

The Black Hills is an isolated mountain range rising from the Great Plains of North America in western South Dakota and extending into Wyoming, United States.

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Black Hills National Forest

Black Hills National Forest is located in southwestern South Dakota and northeastern Wyoming, United States. McVey Fire and Black Hills National Forest are black Hills.

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Civilian Conservation Corps

The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) was a voluntary government work relief program that ran from 1933 to 1942 in the United States for unemployed, unmarried men ages 18–25 and eventually expanded to ages 17–28.

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Controlled burn

A controlled or prescribed (Rx) burn is the practice of intentionally setting a fire to change the assemblage of vegetation and decaying material in a landscape.

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Denver

Denver is a consolidated city and county, the capital, and most populous city of the U.S. state of Colorado.

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Harney National Forest

Harney National Forest was established by the U.S. Forest Service in South Dakota and Wyoming on July 1, 1911, with from part of Black Hills National Forest and other lands.

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Hill City, South Dakota

Hill City is the oldest existing city in Pennington County, South Dakota, United States. McVey Fire and Hill City, South Dakota are black Hills.

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List of South Dakota wildfires

This is a partial list of notable wildfires in the U.S. state of South Dakota. McVey Fire and list of South Dakota wildfires are fires in South Dakota.

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Pinus ponderosa

Pinus ponderosa, commonly known as the ponderosa pine, bull pine, blackjack pine, western yellow-pine, or filipinus pine, is a very large pine tree species of variable habitat native to mountainous regions of western North America.

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Prunus virginiana

Prunus virginiana, commonly called bitter-berry, chokecherry, Virginia bird cherry, and western chokecherry (also black chokecherry for P. virginiana var. demissa), is a species of bird cherry (''Prunus'' subgenus ''Padus'') native to North America.

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Shoshone National Forest

Shoshone National Forest is the first federally protected National Forest in the United States and covers nearly in the state of Wyoming.

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South Dakota

South Dakota (Sioux: Dakȟóta itókaga) is a landlocked state in the North Central region of the United States.

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United States Forest Service

The United States Forest Service (USFS) is an agency within the U.S. Department of Agriculture that administers the nation's 154 national forests and 20 national grasslands covering of land.

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White-tailed deer

The white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus), also known commonly as the whitetail and the Virginia deer, is a medium-sized species of deer native to North America, Central America, and South America as far south as Peru and Bolivia, where it predominately inhabits high mountain terrains of the Andes.

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Wildfire

A wildfire, forest fire, or a bushfire is an unplanned, uncontrolled and unpredictable fire in an area of combustible vegetation.

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See also

1930s wildfires

1939 fires in the United States

1939 in South Dakota

  • McVey Fire

20th-century wildfires in the United States

Civilian Conservation Corps in South Dakota

Fires in South Dakota

July 1939 events

Natural disasters in South Dakota

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McVey_Fire