BlockGallup, South Dakota
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1895 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Jefferson Township. It lies in ZIP code area 57424. The Survey maps it on the Gallup quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 10 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.
- 1895 USGS Aberdeen quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1953 USGS Gallup quadrangle1:24000
- 1954 USGS Aberdeen quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Aberdeen quadrangle1:250000
- 1985 USGS Aberdeen quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
20 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Gallup between 1996 and 2018, burning about 1,697 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 10 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14 July 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | not named |
| 10 July 2000 | Smoking | under an acre | Ashton Volunteer Fire Department | DOUG DITCH |
| 18 June 2007 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | not named |
| 25 May 2002 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Ashton Volunteer Fire Department | KELLY BEARDEMPHL |
| 19 May 1999 | Smoking | under an acre | Black Hawk Volunteer Fire Department | I 90# 49 |
| 15 May 1996 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 21 acres | Waubay National Wildlife Refuge | RASMUSSEN |
| 13 May 2001 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Brentford Volunteer Fire Department | KETTERING |
| 8 April 2005 | Debris and open burning | 800 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | LITTLE RIVER BURN |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
5 since 2007Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Gallup in 5 storm reports between 2007 and 2024: 3 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Gallup | - | An estimated wind gust of seventy to eighty mph was reported. |
| May 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Gallup | - | Thunderstorm winds of 70 mph or greater destroyed several small buildings. |
| June 2024 | Hail | Gallup | - | no account filed |
| July 2015 | Hail | Gallup | - | no account filed |
| July 2008 | Hail | Gallup | - | no account filed |
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 1261006. 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.