BlockEnemy Swim, South Dakota
7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Waubay Township. It lies in ZIP code area 57273. The Survey maps it on the Enemy Swim Lake West quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 7 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.
- 1953 USGS Milbank quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Milbank quadrangle1:250000
- 1970 USGS Enemy Swim Lake West quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Webster quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
40 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 40 fires within 5 miles of Enemy Swim between 1992 and 2015, burning about 2,842 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 6 were 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 | 13 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 8 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 6 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 6 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Fireworks | 2 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 September 1996 | Smoking | 1.0 acres | Sisseton Agency | WABED |
| 29 August 2010 | Fireworks | 1.0 acres | Sisseton Agency | ST PARK |
| 13 August 1997 | Smoking | 1.0 acres | Sisseton Agency | WAUBAY |
| 4 July 1994 | Fireworks | 1.5 acres | Sisseton Agency | BLUEDOG |
| 24 July 1998 | Misuse of fire by a minor | 7.0 acres | Sisseton Agency | ENSWIM1 |
| 23 July 1998 | Misuse of fire by a minor | 1.0 acres | Sisseton Agency | BALE |
| 21 July 1995 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4.4 acres | Waubay National Wildlife Refuge | G1B |
| 18 July 1998 | Natural | 20 acres | Eureka Volunteer Fire Department | THEOPHIL HEUPEL |
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.
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2807098. 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.