BlockClear Lake, South Dakota
6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1979. It stands in Lake Township. It lies in ZIP code area 57247. The Survey maps it on the South Red Iron Lake quadrangle. 170 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,837 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 6 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.
- 1953 USGS Milbank quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Milbank quadrangle1:250000
- 1970 USGS South Red Iron Lake quadrangle1:24000
- 1979 USGS Sisseton quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
12 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Clear Lake between 1992 and 2018, burning about 804 acres in total. None 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 9 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28 September 2002 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Sisseton Agency | JOHNSON |
| 3 May 2009 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Sisseton Agency | JOHNSON |
| 30 April 1992 | Debris and open burning | 400 acres | Sisseton Agency | not named |
| 26 April 2018 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Sisseton Agency | COUCH CAMP FIRE |
| 22 April 2014 | Debris and open burning | 100 acres | Sisseton Agency | BUFFALO LAKE |
| 22 April 1997 | Misuse of fire by a minor | 1.0 acres | Sisseton Agency | REDIRON1 |
| 19 April 2008 | Debris and open burning | 208 acres | Sisseton Agency | SOUTH RED IRON |
| 14 April 2006 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Sisseton Agency | RED IRON TRASH |
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 Clear Lake | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q108760225 | 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 2807113. 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.