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Bloomingdale, South Dakota

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Pleasant Valley Township. It lies in ZIP code area 57069. It lies near Cabbage Flat. The Survey maps it on the Hub City quadrangle.

Bloomingdale within Clay County

On record in Bloomingdale

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 18 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.

Fires near this place

18 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Bloomingdale between 1998 and 2020, burning about 101 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
Debris and open burning12
Equipment and vehicle use2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Arson/incendiarism1
Smoking1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
29 September 2001Debris and open burning1.0 acresVermillion Volunteer Fire DepartmentSPIRIT MOUND
23 September 2020Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionCABBAGE FLATS
22 September 1999Debris and open burning2.0 acresVermillion Volunteer Fire DepartmentHUOT
8 July 2002Debris and open burning2.0 acresVermillion Volunteer Fire DepartmentSAMMELSON
4 July 2014Debris and open burning3.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionRICHLAND
25 July 2014Debris and open burning6.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionSCHMIT
1 May 2008Smokingunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named
29 April 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined45 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionBRANICK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clay 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Marshalltown (historical)3.0 miles18
Clay Point3.0 miles18
Hub City3.4 miles18
Westreville3.5 miles9
Lodi4.3 miles18
Dalesburg4.6 miles18
Greenfield6.6 miles19
Colfax Corner6.9 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1261098. 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.