Dowling, South Dakota

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the West Haakon unorganized territory. It lies in ZIP code area 57567. The Survey maps it on the Post Ranch quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Dowling within Haakon County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 6 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 Pierre quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Pierre quadrangle1:250000
1983 USGS Philip quadrangle1:100000
1983 USGS Post Ranch quadrangle1:24000
1984 USGS Philip quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

3 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Dowling (historical) between 2002 and 2003, burning about 110 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
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
26 July 2002	Natural	15 acres	Philip Volunteer Fire Department	MCLRAUY
14 July 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
13 July 2003	Equipment and vehicle use	80 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	KEYSER

Every fire recorded in Haakon 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
Hilland	7.6 miles	6
Hartley	10.3 miles	6
Grindstone	13.4 miles	6
Elbon	16.1 miles	6
Billsburg	16.8 miles	6
Milesville	18.3 miles	6
Elevenmile Corner	19.3 miles	6
West Fork	24.4 miles	5

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1260959. 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.