Clay Point, South Dakota

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Prairie Center Township. It lies in ZIP code area 57069. It stands on Baptist Creek. The Survey maps it on the Hub City quadrangle.

Clay Point within Clay County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 18 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.

1898 USGS Elk Point quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1901 USGS Elk Point quadrangle1:125000
1907 USGS Elk Point quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
1955 USGS Sioux City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1958 USGS Sioux City quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Sioux City quadrangle1:250000
1969 USGS Hub City quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Sioux City North quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

18 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Clay Point between 1998 and 2020, burning about 58 acres in total. None 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
Debris and open burning	12
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Smoking	2
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
29 September 2001	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Vermillion Volunteer Fire Department	SPIRIT MOUND
23 September 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	3.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	CABBAGE FLATS
22 September 1999	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Vermillion Volunteer Fire Department	HUOT
8 July 2002	Smoking	under an acre	Vermillion Volunteer Fire Department	GREENFIELD
8 July 2002	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Vermillion Volunteer Fire Department	SAMMELSON
4 July 2014	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	RICHLAND
25 July 2014	Debris and open burning	6.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	SCHMIT
1 May 2008	Smoking	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clay 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
Marshalltown (historical)	2.1 miles	18
Bloomingdale	3.0 miles	18
Hub City	3.0 miles	18
Greenfield	3.7 miles	19
Dalesburg	4.6 miles	18
Westreville	6.5 miles	9
Lodi	6.6 miles	18
Komstad (historical)	8.9 miles	10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1264500. 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.