Coal Springs, South Dakota

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Northeast Perkins unorganized territory. It lies in ZIP code area 57644. The Survey maps it on the Coal Springs quadrangle.

Coal Springs within Perkins County

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 Coal Springs quadrangle1:24000
1984 USGS Faith quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

Fires near this place

4 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Coal Springs between 2007 and 2012, burning about 96 acres in total. 1 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
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Natural	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
27 September 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
9 August 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	75 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	JIM LYON'S
15 June 2012	Natural	1.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	WILKEN 2
1 June 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	20 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	WILKEN

Every fire 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	8.3 miles	6
Chance	9.5 miles	7
Usta	15.6 miles	7
Bison	19.5 miles	7
Shadehill	22.7 miles	7
Summerville	23.2 miles	7
Date	30.7 miles	7
Bixby	31.4 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 Coal Springs	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q23709340	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 1254417. 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.