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Eagle, South Dakota

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Eagle Township. It lies in ZIP code area 57369. The Survey maps it on the Eagle quadrangle.

Eagle within Brule County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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.

Fires near this place

3 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Eagle between 2009 and 2020, burning about 3 acres in total. None 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
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Debris and open burning1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
4 June 2020Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionSCHAAP
11 April 2009Debris and open burning3.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named
15 October 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionED HOPKINS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Brule County

Storms near this place

20 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Eagle in 20 storm reports between 2008 and 2020: 14 hail, 3 tornado, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2010HailEagle$10,000Baseball size hail broke windows and damaged siding on a house, and damaged two pickup trucks. The hail also caused moderate to severe crop damage in the area, but the amount of crop damage was not known.
June 2020HailEagle-Some damage was noted to corn fields. Crop damage is an estimate from insured losses. Information provided by the United States Department of Agriculture.
June 2020HailEagle-Crop damage is an estimate from insured losses. Information provided by the United States Department of Agriculture.
August 2020HailEagle-No strong winds accompanied a handful of half-dollar sized hail.
June 2020HailEagle-Hail from pea to quarter size fell for a couple minutes.
July 2018Flash FloodEagle-Runoff from heavy rainfall caused flooding of several county roads.
June 2012HailEagle-Large hail fell for less than a minute.
June 2012HailEagle-Large hail caused an unknown amount of damage to vehicles and crops.
July 2010Tornado (EF0)Eagle-A brief tornado caused no reported damage.
July 2010Tornado (EF0)Eagle-A tornado touched down twice in a brief period. There was no reported damage.
July 2010HailEagle-Golf ball size hail caused an unknown amount of damage to vehicles and windows. Significant crop damage was also reported, but the amount of crop damage was not known. The hail was accompanied by wind gusts as high as 60 mph.
July 2010Tornado (EF0)Eagle-A tornado touched down, lifted briefly, and touched down again for a brief period as it became rain wrapped. The tornado caused no reported damage.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindEagle-Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including several branches blown down.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindEagle-Wind gusts to 60 mph were accompanied by golf ball size hail.
June 2017HailEagle-no account filed
August 2014HailEagle-no account filed
May 2012HailEagle-no account filed
September 2010HailEagle-no account filed
May 2009HailEagle-no account filed
August 2008HailEagle-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Brule 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Bijou Hills4.9 miles8
Ola6.7 miles8
Grandview12.0 miles11
Grass Ranch Colony12.4 miles8
Kimball14.0 miles8
Pukwana15.0 miles10
Cedar Grove Colony15.3 miles8
Chamberlain20.8 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1261000. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.