Dalzell, South Dakota

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Belle Fourche-Cheyenne Valleys unorganized territory. It lies in ZIP code area 57791. The Survey maps it on the Dalzell quadrangle.

Dalzell within Meade County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 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.

1953 USGS Rapid City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1954 USGS Dalzell quadrangle1:24000
1957 USGS Rapid City quadrangle1:250000
1984 USGS New Underwood quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

4 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Dalzell between 2005 and 2016, burning about 534 acres in total. 1 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	2
Natural	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
8 August 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	225 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	C&W1
8 August 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	BEARBUTTE 4
16 July 2005	Natural	300 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	TRASK
22 June 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	8.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	GARNER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Meade 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
Elm Springs	7.3 miles	7
Boneita Springs	11.2 miles	7
White Owl	17.2 miles	7
Enning	18.3 miles	8
Haydraw	18.6 miles	8
Union Center	20.8 miles	7
Plainview	21.8 miles	7
Marcus	22.7 miles	7

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 Dalzell	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q23709346	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 1260995. 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.