BlockBluff Center, South Dakota
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Bethel Township. It lies in ZIP code area 57072. The Survey maps it on the Gayville NE quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 9 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.
- 1955 USGS Sioux City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Sioux City quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Sioux City quadrangle1:250000
- 1969 USGS Gayville NE quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Yankton quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
22 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 22 fires within 5 miles of Bluff Center (historical) between 1999 and 2020, burning about 95 acres in total. None 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 | 11 |
| Debris and open burning | 7 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31 August 1999 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Volin Volunteer Fire Department | HULT |
| 28 July 2002 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Vermillion Volunteer Fire Department | EMMICK |
| 25 May 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | SMOKING BUTT |
| 5 April 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | not named |
| 29 April 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 45 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | BRANICK |
| 24 April 2009 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | not named |
| 18 April 2020 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 4.5 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | TOM NELSON RX |
| 14 April 2000 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Volin Volunteer Fire Department | GAME PRESERVE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Saybrook (historical) | 3.1 miles | 10 | |
| Westreville | 3.5 miles | 9 | |
| Meckling | 5.5 miles | 10 | |
| Wakonda | 6.1 miles | 11 | |
| Lodi | 7.0 miles | 18 | |
| Bloomingdale | 7.0 miles | 18 | |
| Colfax Corner | 7.2 miles | 11 | |
| Riverside (historical) | 8.1 miles | 11 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1264502. 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.