BlockDouglas City, South Dakota
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Valley Township. It lies in ZIP code area 57313. The Survey maps it on the Corsica Lake quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 9 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.
- 1955 USGS Mitchell quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1959 USGS Mitchell quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1980 USGS Corsica Lake quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Lake Andes quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
- 1990 USGS Mitchell quadrangle1:250000
Fires near this place
52 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 52 fires within 5 miles of Douglas City (historical) between 2000 and 2020, burning about 825 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 28 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 12 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 9 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Yankton Agency | BUBBA |
| 6 September 2014 | Debris and open burning | 25 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | EHREN GRUPE |
| 29 September 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | 15 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | HEBER 11-00033 |
| 5 August 2006 | Equipment and vehicle use | 3.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | not named |
| 13 August 2020 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | GREENWAY202001 |
| 30 July 2012 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | HARTMAAN 12-001 |
| 26 July 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | not named |
| 19 July 2006 | Natural | under an acre | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Grandview (historical) | 2.6 miles | 9 | |
| Armour | 4.5 miles | 9 | |
| Corsica | 5.8 miles | 9 | |
| Hillside | 8.3 miles | 9 | |
| Delmont | 11.2 miles | 9 | |
| Harrison | 11.7 miles | 9 | |
| Greenwood Colony | 14.4 miles | 9 | |
| New Holland | 15.9 miles | 9 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1264260. 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.