Cuthbert, South Dakota

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Twin Lake Township. It lies in ZIP code area 57385. The Survey maps it on the Letcher quadrangle.

Cuthbert within Sanborn County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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.

1899 USGS Mitchell quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
1955 USGS Mitchell quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1959 USGS Mitchell quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1979 USGS Letcher quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Mitchell quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1990 USGS Mitchell quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

13 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Cuthbert between 1999 and 2019, burning about 684 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	6
Debris and open burning	5
Equipment and vehicle use	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
30 August 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	12 acres	Sanborn County	OLSON BALER
15 April 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6.0 acres	Woonsocket Volunteer Fire Department	GFP HUNTING AREA
13 April 2000	Equipment and vehicle use	4.0 acres	Woonsocket Volunteer Fire Department	BON
1 April 2000	Debris and open burning	200 acres	Woonsocket Volunteer Fire Department	HONS CHRISTENSEN
21 March 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
11 February 2000	Debris and open burning	350 acres	Woonsocket Volunteer Fire Department	DISO GRASS
31 December 1999	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Woonsocket Volunteer Fire Department	EVERST CHRISTENSON
1 December 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	NELSON CORNER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sanborn County

Storms near this place

7 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cuthbert in 7 storm reports between 1998 and 2024: 4 flood, 2 thunderstorm wind, 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
March 2019	Flood	Cuthbert	$230,000	Flooding resulted in damage to public infrastructure including county and township roads and culverts.
June 2024	Flood	Cuthbert	$112,000	Rainfall amounts across Sanborn County from June 20-22 ranged from 3 to 7 inches. This rainfall resulted in some overland flooding and minor flooding along the James River. \|\|Overland flooding resulted in some damages to township and county roads. Preliminary damage assessments estimate loss to public infrastructure to be nearly 112 thousand dollars.\|\|The majority of overland flooding subsided by June 23, bur river flooding continued through the end of the month. For additional information on river flooding, please see other flood entries for Sanborn County.
September 2019	Flood	Cuthbert	$92,000	Flooding resulted in crop losses and damage to public infrastructure including county and township roads and culverts. Crop loss estimates provided by the United States Department of Agriculture.
June 2019	Flood	Cuthbert	-	During crop planting season, prolonged flooding led to the loss of or inability to plant crops across the area. Crop loss estimates provided by the United States Department of Agriculture.
July 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Cuthbert	-	Trees uprooted and large branches downed.
August 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Cuthbert	-	Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including branches blown down.
June 1998	Hail	Cuthbert	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sanborn 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
Woonsocket	6.5 miles	9
Letcher	6.6 miles	11
Forestburg	7.2 miles	9
Ruskin Park	7.2 miles	9
Upland Colony	14.6 miles	12
Artesian	16.3 miles	11
Farwell	18.4 miles	12

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 Cuthbert	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q23709345	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 1265634. 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.