Athboy, South Dakota
7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the West Corson unorganized territory. It lies in ZIP code area 57644. It stands on First Creek. The Survey maps it on the Black Horse Butte quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 7 printed sheetsMatched 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 McIntosh quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS McIntosh quadrangle1:250000
- 1972 USGS Black Horse Butte quadrangle1:24000
- 1980 USGS McIntosh quadrangle1:100000
- 1998 USGS Black Horse Butte quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
16 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Athboy between 1994 and 2017, burning about 15,492 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 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 1994 | Natural | 1,591 acres | Custer Gallatin National Forest | CORSON COUNTY |
| 9 September 1994 | Natural | 800 acres | Standing Rock Agency | JACOBS |
| 17 September 2000 | Natural | 5,000 acres | Meadow Volunteer Fire Department | MILES |
| 17 September 2000 | Natural | 7.0 acres | Dakota Prairie National Grasslands | TEXLEY FIRE |
| 30 August 2005 | Natural | 20 acres | Standing Rock Agency | LEMMONVFD |
| 30 August 2005 | Natural | 4.6 acres | Dakota Prairie National Grasslands | DIETTERLE |
| 11 August 2006 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Dakota Prairie National Grasslands | SECOND CREEK 2 |
| 4 July 2017 | Natural | 3.7 acres | Dakota Prairie National Grasslands | THIRD CREEK |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
32 since 2007Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Athboy in 32 storm reports between 2007 and 2021: 18 thunderstorm wind, 12 hail, 2 flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Athboy | - | Sixty mph winds brought several branches down. |
| July 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Athboy | - | Sixty mph winds were estimated. |
| June 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Athboy | - | Eighty mph winds pushed over a semi truck and trailer along with moving some farm equipment slightly from its original position. Some heavy steel feeders were also moved from 250 to 500 yards. |
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Athboy | - | Sixty mph winds were estimated. |
| May 2013 | Hail | Athboy | - | Quarter size hail completely covered the ground. |
| May 2013 | Hail | Athboy | - | It hailed for about 20 minutes with the largest hail stone being half dollar size. |
| August 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Athboy | - | Seventy mph winds tore apart a wooden swing set. |
| July 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Athboy | - | Sixty mph winds downed several branches. |
| October 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Athboy | - | Seventy mph winds downed six power poles. |
| August 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Athboy | - | Sixty mph winds brought some branches down. |
| August 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Athboy | - | Sixty-five mph winds were estimated northwest of Isabel. |
| June 2021 | Flood | Athboy | - | no account filed |
| March 2019 | Flood | Athboy | - | no account filed |
| June 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Athboy | - | no account filed |
| June 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Athboy | - | no account filed |
| June 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Athboy | - | no account filed |
| August 2016 | Hail | Athboy | - | no account filed |
| August 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Athboy | - | no account filed |
| August 2014 | Hail | Athboy | - | no account filed |
| June 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Athboy | - | no account filed |
| July 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Athboy | - | no account filed |
| July 2009 | Hail | Athboy | - | no account filed |
| July 2009 | Hail | Athboy | - | no account filed |
| July 2008 | Hail | Athboy | - | no account filed |
| July 2008 | Hail | Athboy | - | no account filed |
| July 2008 | Hail | Athboy | - | no account filed |
| July 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Athboy | - | no account filed |
| July 2008 | Hail | Athboy | - | no account filed |
| July 2008 | Hail | Athboy | - | no account filed |
| July 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Athboy | - | no account filed |
| May 2007 | Hail | Athboy | - | no account filed |
| July 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Athboy | - | no account filed |
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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thunder Hawk | 25.3 miles | 6 | |
| Keldron | 25.4 miles | 7 | |
| Morristown | 27.3 miles | 7 | |
| Black Horse | 30.3 miles | 7 | |
| Watauga | 31.4 miles | 7 | |
| McIntosh | 38.7 miles | 7 | |
| Miscol | 40.9 miles | 7 | |
| Bullhead | 46.5 miles | 8 |
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 Athboy | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q23709324 | 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 1260976. 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.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.




