BlockAthol, South Dakota
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Athol Township. It lies in ZIP code area 57424. The Survey maps it on the Athol quadrangle. It stands 1,296 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 8 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.
- 1899 USGS Northville quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Aberdeen quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Aberdeen quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Athol quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Aberdeen quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
7 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Athol between 1996 and 2015, burning about 281 acres in total. None 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 |
|---|---|
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Other causes | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28 June 2004 | Equipment and vehicle use | 100 acres | Sand Lake National Wildlife Refuge | 04 EINSPAHAR |
| 22 May 2002 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Ashton Volunteer Fire Department | JERRY LENS |
| 15 May 1996 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 21 acres | Waubay National Wildlife Refuge | RASMUSSEN |
| 5 April 2000 | Debris and open burning | 20 acres | Ashton Volunteer Fire Department | VINCE JUNGWIRTH |
| 5 April 2000 | Other causes | 15 acres | Ashton Volunteer Fire Department | STACEY FERRICKS |
| 13 April 2003 | Arson/incendiarism | 115 acres | Sand Lake National Wildlife Refuge | MARDIAN WPA |
| 1 October 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | 5.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | W FRERICKS |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
11 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Athol in 11 storm reports between 1995 and 2016: 8 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Athol | - | Sixty mph winds brought some tree branches down. |
| July 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Athol | - | Winds gusting to 80 mph brought some telephone poles down. The power was out for many people in Athol through 0500 CST. Large tree branches were also downed throughout Athol. |
| June 2016 | Hail | Athol | - | no account filed |
| July 2015 | Hail | Athol | - | no account filed |
| August 2007 | Hail | Athol | - | no account filed |
| August 2007 | Hail | Athol | - | no account filed |
| August 2007 | Hail | Athol | - | no account filed |
| August 2007 | Hail | Athol | - | no account filed |
| July 2002 | Hail | Athol | - | no account filed |
| August 2002 | Hail | Athol | - | no account filed |
| July 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Athol | - | 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.
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 Athol | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q19460305 | 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 1265610. 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.