BlockConata, South Dakota
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1981. It stands in Conata Township. It lies in ZIP code area 57780. The Survey maps it on the Conata quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 9 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.
- 1950 USGS Conata quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1952 USGS Conata quadrangle1:24000
- 1955 USGS Hot Springs quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1981 USGS Wall quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
16 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Conata between 1994 and 2020, burning about 1,577 acres in total. 8 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 | 8 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 5 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15 September 1995 | Natural | 50 acres | Nebraska National Forest | CONATA |
| 30 August 2013 | Natural | under an acre | Nebraska National Forest | SOGGY BOTTOM |
| 3 August 2006 | Natural | 1.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | not named |
| 3 August 2006 | Natural | 850 acres | Pine Ridge Agency | WITCH |
| 18 August 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | HEINRICH |
| 18 August 2003 | Natural | 4.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | not named |
| 14 August 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Nebraska National Forest | MM 105 |
| 16 July 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Nebraska National Forest | MILE MARKER 103 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
1 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Conata in 1 storm report in 2005: 1 hail. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2005 | Hail | Conata | - | no account filed |
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.
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1261477. 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.