Chase, South Dakota

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the South Ziebach unorganized territory. It lies in ZIP code area 57623. The Survey maps it on the Diermier Ranch quadrangle.

Chase within Ziebach County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 6 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 Pierre quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Pierre quadrangle1:250000
1982 USGS Diermier Ranch quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Cherry Creek quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

28 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 28 fires within 5 miles of Chase between 1993 and 2020, burning about 1,103 acres in total. 13 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
Natural	13
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Debris and open burning	1
Arson/incendiarism	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
5 September 2005	Natural	5.1 acres	Cheyenne River Agency	H. GRAGE
5 September 2005	Natural	under an acre	Cheyenne River Agency	KENNY BIRK
5 September 2005	Natural	under an acre	Cheyenne River Agency	E. OLSEN
29 September 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Cheyenne River Agency	WALL STREET
29 September 2007	Natural	under an acre	Cheyenne River Agency	FISHERMAN
17 September 2000	Natural	200 acres	Dupree Volunteer Fire Department	GAGE RANCH
17 September 2000	Natural	1.0 acres	Dupree Volunteer Fire Department	BIRKELAND
10 September 2005	Natural	under an acre	Cheyenne River Agency	BBIRKELAND

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ziebach 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
Dupree	7.5 miles	7
Red Elm	11.4 miles	7
Red Scaffold	16.6 miles	6
Thunder Butte	18.9 miles	8
Iron Lightning	20.1 miles	7
Allison Crossing	23.5 miles	7
Cherry Creek	24.1 miles	8
Bridger	31.1 miles	6

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1265750. 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.