BlockCrandall, South Dakota
7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Oak Gulch Township. It lies in ZIP code area 57434. The Survey maps it on the Crandall quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 7 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 Crandall quadrangle1:24000
- 1958 USGS Milbank quadrangle1:250000
- 1985 USGS Webster quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
11 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Crandall between 1999 and 2014, burning about 1,302 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 |
|---|---|
| Equipment and vehicle use | 6 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 September 2003 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | not named |
| 10 September 1999 | Debris and open burning | 1,100 acres | Conde Volunteer Fire Department | SANDERSON |
| 5 August 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | not named |
| 4 August 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | STRAWBALE |
| 12 August 2009 | Equipment and vehicle use | 13 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | not named |
| 9 July 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | not named |
| 23 July 2012 | Equipment and vehicle use | 40 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | GREG BONN |
| 19 July 2002 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Conde Volunteer Fire Department | KEN PURIT |
Storms near this place
8 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Crandall in 8 storm reports between 2006 and 2025: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 flood, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2006 | Flash Flood | Crandall | $5,000 | no account filed |
| August 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Crandall | - | Tree branches were downed by sixty mph winds. |
| June 2009 | Flash Flood | Crandall | - | Heavy rains resulted in flash flooding of some roads northeast of Crandall. |
| August 2025 | Funnel Cloud | Crandall | - | no account filed |
| August 2021 | Hail | Crandall | - | no account filed |
| June 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Crandall | - | no account filed |
| August 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Crandall | - | no account filed |
| April 2006 | Flood | Crandall | - | 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.
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 Crandall | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q23709341 | 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 1254533. 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.