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Carter, South Dakota

5 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Carter Township. It lies in ZIP code area 57580. The Survey maps it on the Carter quadrangle. It stands 2,172 feet above sea level.

Carter within Tripp County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 5 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

9 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Carter between 1999 and 2016, burning about 173 acres in total. 3 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 use3
Natural3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Arson/incendiarism1

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
2 September 2016Equipment and vehicle use110 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionFOUR WHEELER FIRE
5 August 2005Equipment and vehicle use40 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named
3 July 2012Naturalunder an acreRosebud AgencyBRICKMAN
26 July 1999Equipment and vehicle use20 acresWinner Volunteer Fire DepartmentKYLE MOELLER
21 July 2011Naturalunder an acreRosebud AgencyBEARING
7 June 2016Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresRosebud AgencyDUMP FIRE
27 March 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWitten Volunteer Fire DepartmentHWY 44 ROAD DITCH
30 November 2011Naturalunder an acreRosebud AgencyCHAIR

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Tripp County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Carter: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Carlson's Red Butte QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Tripp County

Storms near this place

19 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Carter in 19 storm reports between 2000 and 2022: 12 hail, 7 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
May 2010HailCarter$5,000Golfball sized hail broke windows and skylights.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindCarter-The spotter estimated wind gusts at 60 mph.
September 2019Thunderstorm WindCarter-Wind gusts were estimated at 60 mph.
August 2017Thunderstorm WindCarter-A slide was blown off a swing set and broken.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindCarter-Wind gusts were estimated at 60 mph.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindCarter-The southeast corner of the Red Hills Saloon roof was torn off by strong wind gusts.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindCarter-Road signs were blown down by strong wind gusts.
June 2020HailCarter-no account filed
June 2019HailCarter-no account filed
July 2019HailCarter-no account filed
September 2019HailCarter-no account filed
August 2017HailCarter-no account filed
August 2011HailCarter-no account filed
June 2008HailCarter-no account filed
June 2005HailCarter-no account filed
June 2005HailCarter-no account filed
May 2003HailCarter-no account filed
July 2003Thunderstorm WindCarter-no account filed
July 2000HailCarter-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Tripp 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
Witten7.5 miles5
Jordan Junction9.2 miles5
Clearfield17.7 miles5
Winner18.2 miles8
Ideal18.4 miles8
Keyapaha19.5 miles5
Millboro25.0 miles8
Colome27.3 miles8

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 CarterAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5047097The 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 1254257. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.