Ames, South Dakota

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Mondamin Township. It lies in ZIP code area 57362. The Survey maps it on the Ames quadrangle.

Ames within Hand 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.

1953 USGS Huron quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1954 USGS Huron quadrangle1:250000
1973 USGS Ames quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Big Bend Dam quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

6 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Ames between 1999 and 2016, burning about 2,590 acres in total. 2 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	2
Natural	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
Debris and open burning	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
16 July 2006	Natural	40 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
7 March 2000	Natural	150 acres	Ree Heights Volunteer Fire Department	CANNON RIVER
21 March 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	70 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	DAKOTA WILD WINGS
12 March 2016	Debris and open burning	30 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	WARING
3 November 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Miller Volunteer Fire Department	MILLERDALE COLONY
20 November 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2,300 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	SOUTH HAND

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hand 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
Sweetland (historical)	7.2 miles	9
Miller Dale Colony	9.1 miles	7
Danforth	10.7 miles	9
Miller	17.9 miles	8
Ree Heights	18.3 miles	9
Saint Lawrence	18.8 miles	8
Vayland	21.7 miles	8
Florence (historical)	29.6 miles	9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1260975. 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.