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.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 10 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.
- 1895 USGS Byron quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1953 USGS Huron quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1954 USGS Huron quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Frankfort SW quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Redfield quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
18 since 1998Regional 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/undetermined | 16 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | SCHULTZ |
| 5 August 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | AVERY |
| 25 May 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | TULARE |
| 30 April 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 90 acres | Hand County | SIEGLING |
| 29 April 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 9.0 acres | Hand County | FREMARK |
| 19 April 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | OTTO |
| 18 April 2005 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 10 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | not named |
| 14 April 2016 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | GORDON |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
5 since 2013Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Crandon | - | Eighty mph winds downed several trees and tree branches along with causing some power outages. |
| July 2017 | Hail | Crandon | - | no account filed |
| June 2013 | Hail | Crandon | - | no account filed |
| June 2013 | Hail | Crandon | - | no account filed |
| September 2013 | Hail | Crandon | - | 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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tulare | 3.7 miles | 8 | |
| Redfield | 7.7 miles | 8 | |
| Spottswood | 8.8 miles | 8 | |
| Spink Colony | 9.0 miles | 11 | |
| Glendale Colony | 9.2 miles | 10 | |
| Frankfort | 10.7 miles | 10 | |
| Ashton | 15.3 miles | 10 | |
| Camrose Colony | 16.7 miles | 10 |
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.




