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Enning, South Dakota

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Belle Fourche-Cheyenne Valleys unorganized territory. It lies in ZIP code area 57787. The Survey maps it on the Enning quadrangle. It stands 3,035 feet above sea level.

Enning within Meade County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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

16 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Enning between 1998 and 2020, burning about 891 acres in total. 6 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 use7
Natural6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Debris and open burning1

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
5 September 2000Natural20 acresEnning Volunteer Fire DepartmentSPRING AND MARELAND
25 September 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionSHAW RANCH FIRE
7 August 2009Naturalunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named
26 August 2019Natural1.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionJOHN LONG HAY
22 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionHIGHWAY 34 CAMPER FIRE
14 August 2017Natural1.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionSPRING HAY
13 August 2015Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionLORENZ HAY
10 August 2012Natural1.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionBASEL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Meade County

Storms near this place

38 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Enning in 38 storm reports between 1997 and 2022: 19 hail, 17 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 funnel cloud. 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 2013HailEnning$150,000no account filed
July 2016Thunderstorm WindEnning$10,000Wind-driven hail to the size of tennis balls smashed vehicle windows.
October 1997HailEnning$5,000Numerous windows were broken at Enning School.
October 1997Thunderstorm WindEnning$4,000Roofs were ripped off several buildings.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindEnning-Tree branches to two inches in diameter were broken.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindEnning-Wind gusts were estimated at 60 mph.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindEnning-The spotter estimated wind gusts at 60 mph.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindEnning-Wind gusts were estimated at 60 mph.
July 2016HailEnning-Drifts of hail along the road.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindEnning-Wind gusts were estimated at 70 mph.
August 2015Thunderstorm WindEnning-The spotter estimated wind gusts around 60 mph.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindEnning-Wind gusts were estimated at 60 mph.
June 2011HailEnning-Hail covered the ground.
April 2010Thunderstorm WindEnning-Wind gusts were estimated at 60 mph.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindEnning-Half inch size hail also accompanied the storm.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindEnning-None.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindEnning-None.
July 2003HailEnning-Large hail broke skylights in a house.
October 1997Tornado (F0)Enning-Brief tornado reported by law enforcement officer along Highway 34. Path length and width are estimated.
June 2016HailEnning-no account filed
July 2016HailEnning-no account filed
July 2016HailEnning-no account filed
July 2013HailEnning-no account filed
April 2010HailEnning-no account filed
June 2009Thunderstorm WindEnning-no account filed
June 2008HailEnning-no account filed
June 2008HailEnning-no account filed
June 2007HailEnning-no account filed
July 2005Thunderstorm WindEnning-no account filed
May 2004Thunderstorm WindEnning-no account filed
May 2004HailEnning-no account filed
July 2003HailEnning-no account filed
July 2003HailEnning-no account filed
August 2002HailEnning-no account filed
July 2001Thunderstorm WindEnning-no account filed
July 2001Funnel CloudEnning-no account filed
July 2001HailEnning-no account filed
May 1998HailEnning-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Meade 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
Union Center5.7 miles7
White Owl7.1 miles7
Redowl8.5 miles7
Boneita Springs9.0 miles7
Stoneville11.9 miles7
Haydraw12.3 miles8
Clough12.8 miles8
Marcus16.4 miles7

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 EnningAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5379171The 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 1254952. 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.