Angostura, South Dakota

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Northeast Fall River unorganized territory. It lies in ZIP code area 57747. It stands on Horsehead Creek. The Survey maps it on the Angostura Reservoir quadrangle.

Angostura within Fall River 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.

1896 USGS Oelrichs quadrangle1:125000
1900 USGS Oelrichs quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
1950 USGS Angostura Reservoir quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1955 USGS Hot Springs quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1985 USGS Hot Springs quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1993 USGS Hot Springs quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

52 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 52 fires within 5 miles of Angostura between 1996 and 2020, burning about 385 acres in total. 22 started naturally. 1 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	22
Equipment and vehicle use	9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Power generation/transmission/distribution	5
Debris and open burning	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Smoking	1
Recreation and ceremony	1
Arson/incendiarism	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
9 September 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	ANGOSTURA ROAD
5 September 2000	Natural	2.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	HILL FIRE
5 September 1996	Natural	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	WATERS EDGE
3 September 2015	Natural	2.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	MARCH
29 September 2007	Natural	6.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
9 August 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
6 August 2010	Natural	1.2 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	UNKNOWN
4 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	HORSE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Smithwick

Every fire recorded in Fall River 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
Smithwick	8.7 miles	14
Cascade Springs	9.2 miles	15
Oral	9.2 miles	16
Heppner	9.7 miles	14
Hot Springs	10.1 miles	19
Rocky Ford	11.5 miles	15
Oelrichs	11.8 miles	14
Erskine	13.2 miles	14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2807101. 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.