Hidden Timber, South Dakota

5 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the East Todd unorganized territory. It lies in ZIP code area 69201. The Survey maps it on the Hidden Timber quadrangle.

Hidden Timber within Todd County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 5 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.

1955 USGS Martin quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Martin quadrangle1:250000
1982 USGS Hidden Timber quadrangle1:24000
1982 USGS Mission quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

25 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Hidden Timber between 1994 and 2020, burning about 568 acres in total. 9 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
Natural	9
Debris and open burning	5
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
8 September 2000	Misuse of fire by a minor	2.0 acres	Rosebud Agency	ABBOTT 2
5 September 2000	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Rosebud Agency	KARY
30 September 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Rosebud Agency	WRIGHT ROUNDUP
11 September 2005	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Rosebud Agency	SPUD
6 August 1995	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Rosebud Agency	BALES#2
30 August 2013	Debris and open burning	58 acres	Rosebud Agency	ASSMAN
26 August 2002	Natural	305 acres	Rosebud Agency	COW PIE
24 August 2014	Natural	under an acre	Rosebud Agency	BIG SMOKER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Olsonville

Every fire recorded in Todd County

Storms near this place

1 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hidden Timber in 1 storm report in 2000: 1 hail. 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
July 2000	Hail	Hidden Timber	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Todd 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
Okreek	9.4 miles	5
White Horse	10.8 miles	5
Antelope	12.1 miles	5
Olsonville	12.2 miles	5
Antelope Development Area	12.4 miles	5
Littleburg	12.8 miles	5
Mission	13.6 miles	5
Lakeview	19.4 miles	5

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1261111. 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.