Elbon, 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 Elbon quadrangle.

Elbon 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 Elbon quadrangle1:24000
1983 USGS Philip quadrangle1:100000
1984 USGS Philip quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

19 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Elbon between 2000 and 2017, burning about 1,299 acres in total. 10 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	10
Equipment and vehicle use	8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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 August 2017	Natural	25 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	KING
8 August 2005	Natural	30 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
8 August 2005	Natural	50 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
16 August 2000	Natural	1.0 acres	Philip Volunteer Fire Department	RIGGLE
13 August 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	800 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	PRAIRIE BERRY
12 August 2006	Natural	26 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
12 August 2006	Natural	50 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
12 August 2006	Natural	50 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

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
Elevenmile Corner	5.9 miles	6
Billsburg	8.3 miles	6
Hilland	8.9 miles	6
Lucerne	9.1 miles	6
Hartley	10.5 miles	6
Milesville	12.2 miles	6
West Fork	13.6 miles	5
Dowling (historical)	16.1 miles	6

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1254895. 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.