Dezera, South Dakota

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1990. It stands in White Swan Township. It lies in ZIP code area 57356. The Survey maps it on the Lake Andes quadrangle.

Dezera within Charles Mix 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.

1955 USGS Mitchell quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1959 USGS Mitchell quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1964 USGS Lake Andes quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1977 USGS Lake Andes quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Lake Andes quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
1990 USGS Mitchell quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

91 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 91 fires within 5 miles of Dezera between 1999 and 2020, burning about 819 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 7 were 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	34
Fireworks	16
Debris and open burning	14
Arson/incendiarism	7
Recreation and ceremony	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	4
Natural	4
Smoking	3
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Other causes	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15 acres	Yankton Agency	LAR12
6 September 2005	Misuse of fire by a minor	1.0 acres	Yankton Agency	A0805022
4 September 2005	Fireworks	1.1 acres	Yankton Agency	A0805021
25 September 2002	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Yankton Agency	WALAKE
21 September 1999	Debris and open burning	15 acres	Ravinia Volunteer Fire Department	BILL SPECHT
16 September 2008	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
6 August 2005	Arson/incendiarism	5.0 acres	Yankton Agency	A0805018
31 August 2005	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Yankton Agency	A0805020

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Charles Mix County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Dezera: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Wagner Ravinia Sand Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Charles Mix 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
Lake Andes	2.2 miles	11
Lake View Colony	4.3 miles	10
Ravinia	4.4 miles	10
Pickstown	7.0 miles	10
Geddes	11.9 miles	9
Wagner	12.5 miles	11
Marty	12.6 miles	10
Greenwood	17.8 miles	10

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.

Wikidata item Q122560094

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 1254684. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.