Allison Crossing, South Dakota

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the North Ziebach unorganized territory. It lies in ZIP code area 57626. It stands on Flint Rock Creek. The Survey maps it on the Red Elm NW quadrangle.

Allison Crossing within Ziebach County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 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.

1951 USGS Redelm NW quadrangle1:24000
1953 USGS McIntosh quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS McIntosh quadrangle1:250000
1986 USGS Timber Lake quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

27 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 27 fires within 5 miles of Allison Crossing between 1992 and 2017, burning about 1,334 acres in total. 15 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	15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Fireworks	2
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
5 September 1996	Natural	under an acre	Cheyenne River Agency	LYNN W.
18 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
30 August 2005	Natural	12 acres	Cheyenne River Agency	KNIFECREEK
2 August 1994	Natural	94 acres	Cheyenne River Agency	WILLIAMS
9 July 2017	Natural	514 acres	Cheyenne River Agency	HILL TOP
7 July 2002	Natural	under an acre	Cheyenne River Agency	IRON TREE
6 July 2002	Natural	under an acre	Cheyenne River Agency	IRON TREE2
6 July 2002	Natural	19 acres	Cheyenne River Agency	SHARKY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ziebach 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
Iron Lightning	4.0 miles	7
Red Elm	12.2 miles	7
Thunder Butte	13.1 miles	8
Glad Valley	15.7 miles	8
Dupree	19.8 miles	7
Chase	23.5 miles	6
Red Scaffold	30.1 miles	6
Bridger	45.1 miles	6

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 Q122557506

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 1265824. 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.