BlockCedar Canyon, South Dakota
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the North Meade unorganized territory. It lies in ZIP code area 57626. The Survey maps it on the Cedar Canyon quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 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.
- 1951 USGS Cedar Canyon quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Lemmon quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Lemmon quadrangle1:250000
- 1984 USGS Faith quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
Fires near this place
14 since 2001Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Cedar Canyon between 2001 and 2007, burning about 6,330 acres in total. 9 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 9 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29 August 2001 | Equipment and vehicle use | 3,600 acres | Enning Volunteer Fire Department | GRUEB |
| 26 August 2003 | Natural | 1.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | not named |
| 19 July 2006 | Natural | 10 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | not named |
| 14 July 2006 | Natural | 200 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | not named |
| 14 July 2006 | Natural | 150 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | not named |
| 14 July 2006 | Natural | 300 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | not named |
| 14 July 2002 | Misuse of fire by a minor | 2,000 acres | Montana/Dakotas State Office | CEDAR CANY |
| 12 July 2006 | Natural | 2.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | not named |
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.
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 Cedar Canyon | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q23709337 | 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 1260988. 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.