Hilland, South Dakota

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the West Haakon unorganized territory. It lies in ZIP code area 57567. The Survey maps it on the Hilland quadrangle.

Hilland within Haakon County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 6 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.

1954 USGS Pierre quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Pierre quadrangle1:250000
1983 USGS Hilland quadrangle1:24000
1983 USGS Philip quadrangle1:100000
1984 USGS Philip quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

6 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Hilland between 1999 and 2019, burning about 6,252 acres in total. 2 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
Debris and open burning	2
Natural	2
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
5 August 2006	Natural	215 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
27 August 1999	Natural	30 acres	Milesville Volunteer Fire Department	FAIRCHILD RANCH
26 August 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	3.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	KROETCH
25 August 2006	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
24 March 2000	Debris and open burning	4,000 acres	Philip Volunteer Fire Department	DON FERGUSON
19 March 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2,000 acres	Milesville Volunteer Fire Department	DON FERGUSON 2

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Haakon County

Storms near this place

1 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hilland in 1 storm report in 1997: 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 1997	Hail	Hilland	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Haakon 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
Dowling (historical)	7.6 miles	6
Hartley	8.5 miles	6
Elbon	8.9 miles	6
Grindstone	11.5 miles	6
Elevenmile Corner	11.6 miles	6
Billsburg	12.4 miles	6
Milesville	15.3 miles	6
Lucerne	17.8 miles	6

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1255562. 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.