Florence, South Dakota

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Florence Township. It lies in ZIP code area 57362. The Survey maps it on the Miller NW quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Florence within Hand County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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.

1899 USGS Redfield quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1953 USGS Huron quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1954 USGS Huron quadrangle1:250000
1967 USGS Miller NW quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1985 USGS Redfield quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

9 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Florence (historical) between 2000 and 2016, burning about 62 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/undetermined	5
Equipment and vehicle use	4

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 September 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
30 August 2014	Equipment and vehicle use	20 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	BRUEGGEMAN FIRE
25 July 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	BRUEGGEMANN
17 July 2000	Equipment and vehicle use	20 acres	Miller Volunteer Fire Department	C. WAGNER
15 July 2003	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
13 July 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	KOECK
13 April 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	9.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	MOROG
2 December 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	WAGNER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hand 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
Polo	8.8 miles	8
Burdette	10.1 miles	8
Miller	12.0 miles	8
Saint Lawrence	12.3 miles	8
Ree Heights	16.4 miles	9
Vayland	17.0 miles	8
Miller Dale Colony	21.2 miles	7
Sweetland (historical)	24.2 miles	9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1264324. 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.