Date, South Dakota

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Duell Township. It lies in ZIP code area 57620. The Survey maps it on the Date quadrangle.

Date within Perkins 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.

1954 USGS Lemmon quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Lemmon quadrangle1:250000
1983 USGS Date quadrangle1:24000
1984 USGS Faith quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

Fires near this place

8 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Date between 2000 and 2010, burning about 1,965 acres in total. 7 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
Natural	7
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
26 August 2000	Natural	50 acres	Prairie City Volunteer Fire Department	DOUG HOFF
31 July 2010	Equipment and vehicle use	15 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	RYEN
31 July 2007	Natural	1,100 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	GODDARD
18 July 2006	Natural	200 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
18 July 2006	Natural	300 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
18 July 2006	Natural	50 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
18 July 2006	Natural	200 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
18 July 2006	Natural	50 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Perkins 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
Strool	11.3 miles	6
Prairie City	13.0 miles	6
Sorum	14.4 miles	7
Bison	15.7 miles	7
Imogene	15.7 miles	7
Bixby	16.3 miles	7
Zeona	17.3 miles	7
Chance	21.3 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 Date	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q23709348	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 1254605. 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.