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Emmet, South Dakota

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Emmet Township. It lies in ZIP code area 57004. The Survey maps it on the Nora quadrangle. 257 people lived here at the 2000 count. It stands 1,299 feet above sea level.

Emmet within Union County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 18 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

22 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 22 fires within 5 miles of Emmet between 1999 and 2020, burning about 438 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Debris and open burning3
Equipment and vehicle use3
Smoking1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
31 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionEMMET TWP.
5 May 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionANDERSON FIRE
18 May 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionHEARNEN FIRE
4 April 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresAlcester Volunteer Fire DepartmentBRULE
29 April 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresAlcester Volunteer Fire DepartmentDIRT ROAD
18 April 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionSLUTIER
6 March 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named
5 March 2000Debris and open burning3.0 acresAlcester Volunteer Fire DepartmentSTAR SCHOOL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Union 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 Emmet: 1 producer. All of them still produce. 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Seburn Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Union 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
Alsen3.5 miles19
Hill Side3.7 miles19
Nora3.7 miles18
Alcester6.7 miles10
Beresford6.9 miles10
Big Springs8.0 miles18
Midway8.3 miles18
Spink9.0 miles19

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.

Wikipedia article on EmmetAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5373472The 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 1261002. 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.