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Crandon, South Dakota

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1895 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Crandon Township. It lies in ZIP code area 57476. The Survey maps it on the Frankfort SW quadrangle.

Crandon within Spink County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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.

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 Crandon between 1998 and 2017, burning about 137 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined16
Debris and open burning1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
13 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionSCHULTZ
5 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionAVERY
25 May 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionTULARE
30 April 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined90 acresHand CountySIEGLING
29 April 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined9.0 acresHand CountyFREMARK
19 April 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionOTTO
18 April 2005Railroad operations and maintenance10 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named
14 April 2016Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionGORDON

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Spink County

Storms near this place

5 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Crandon in 5 storm reports between 2013 and 2017: 4 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2013Thunderstorm WindCrandon-Eighty mph winds downed several trees and tree branches along with causing some power outages.
July 2017HailCrandon-no account filed
June 2013HailCrandon-no account filed
June 2013HailCrandon-no account filed
September 2013HailCrandon-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Spink 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Tulare3.7 miles8
Redfield7.7 miles8
Spottswood8.8 miles8
Spink Colony9.0 miles11
Glendale Colony9.2 miles10
Frankfort10.7 miles10
Ashton15.3 miles10
Camrose Colony16.7 miles10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1265169. 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.