Chance, South Dakota

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Chance Township. It lies in ZIP code area 57644. It stands on Hart Creek. The Survey maps it on the Chance quadrangle.

Chance within Perkins County

On record in Chance

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 2 records

Foster Ranch Houselisted 1987
Thomas J. Veal Ranchlisted 1987

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 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.

1954 USGS Lemmon quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Lemmon quadrangle1:250000
1983 USGS Chance quadrangle1:24000
1984 USGS Faith quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

Fires near this place

9 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Chance between 2001 and 2012, burning about 164 acres in total. 3 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	3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Debris and open burning	2

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
6 August 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
6 August 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	100 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
3 August 2009	Natural	5.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
26 July 2008	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
29 June 2012	Natural	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	TREE
21 June 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	30 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	ERIC ARNESON
14 June 2012	Natural	1.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	USTA BE A TREE
12 June 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	20 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	HAM

Every fire recorded in Perkins County

Storms near this place

1 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Chance in 1 storm report in 2005: 1 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Chance	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Perkins 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Meadow	8.9 miles	6
Coal Springs	9.5 miles	7
Bison	12.2 miles	7
Usta	14.5 miles	7
Date	21.3 miles	7
Bixby	23.4 miles	7
Shadehill	25.1 miles	7
Summerville	25.7 miles	7

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 Chance	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q23709338	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 1254319. 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.