Arpan, South Dakota

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the West Butte unorganized territory. It lies in ZIP code area 57762. The Survey maps it on the Arpan quadrangle.

Arpan within Butte County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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.

1906 USGS Two Top quadrangle1:62500
1907 USGS Belle Fourche quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1953 USGS Rapid City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Rapid City quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Arpan quadrangle1:24000
1983 USGS Belle Fourche quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

9 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Arpan between 1999 and 2020, burning about 612 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Natural	2
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Other causes	1
Debris and open burning	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
1 September 2000	Natural	2.0 acres	Edgemont Volunteer Fire Department	HOG BACK
8 August 2001	Natural	1.0 acres	Miles City Field Office	INDIAN CAN
12 August 2020	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	SCHILDIES
3 July 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	ORMAN DAM
22 July 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Newell Volunteer Fire Department	FOOS
18 July 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	300 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	WINKLER FIRE
4 June 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	300 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	STUMPF
7 January 2000	Other causes	6.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	DANBY PARK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Fruitdale

Every fire recorded in Butte 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
Fruitdale	8.7 miles	13
Nisland	9.4 miles	12
Snoma (historical)	9.9 miles	13
Newell	13.1 miles	12
Belle Fourche	13.5 miles	14
Castle Rock	17.0 miles	8
Vale	17.5 miles	13
Jolly Dump	17.8 miles	15

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.

Wikipedia article on Arpan	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q23709323	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 1261092. 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.