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Canning, South Dakota

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1934 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the West Hughes unorganized territory. It lies in ZIP code area 57501. It lies near Brekke Draw. The Survey maps it on the Canning quadrangle.

Canning within Hughes County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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

6 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Canning between 2006 and 2018, burning about 1,170 acres in total. 1 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/undetermined2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Natural1

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
7 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named
26 August 2018Railroad operations and maintenance365 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionCANNING CA
8 July 2016Equipment and vehicle use49 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionKORKOW LEESMANN
7 July 2016Natural750 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionMEDICEN KNOLL
7 June 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionKORKOW
16 April 2007Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hughes County

Storms near this place

12 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Canning in 12 storm reports between 1999 and 2025: 8 hail, 4 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2020Thunderstorm WindCanning-Severe winds took part of the roof off a barn which killed two calves. The overhead door on another building was blown in.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindCanning-no account filed
August 2018HailCanning-no account filed
June 2015Thunderstorm WindCanning-no account filed
June 2010HailCanning-no account filed
May 2009HailCanning-no account filed
June 2008HailCanning-no account filed
June 2008HailCanning-no account filed
June 2004HailCanning-no account filed
June 2003HailCanning-no account filed
August 2002Thunderstorm WindCanning-no account filed
June 1999HailCanning-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Hughes 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
Rousseau5.9 miles10
Alto6.8 miles10
Blunt8.3 miles8
De Grey9.7 miles7
Pierre17.0 miles8
Harrold17.9 miles8
Gray Goose18.5 miles6
Oahe26.8 miles9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1254226. 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.