Hisle, South Dakota

5 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Southwest Jackson unorganized territory. It lies in ZIP code area 57577. The Survey maps it on the Hisle quadrangle.

Hisle within Jackson 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
1981 USGS Hisle quadrangle1:25000
1983 USGS Martin quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

23 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 23 fires within 5 miles of Hisle between 2000 and 2017, burning about 520 acres in total. 5 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
Natural	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Debris and open burning	3
Other causes	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
28 September 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
27 September 2000	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Martin Volunteer Fire Department	PORCH RANCH
26 September 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
14 September 2005	Debris and open burning	28 acres	Pine Ridge Agency	WILD BILL
14 September 2005	Misuse of fire by a minor	25 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
7 August 2003	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
3 August 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Pine Ridge Agency	GROUND HOG
19 August 2007	Natural	under an acre	Pine Ridge Agency	WARD BALE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jackson County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Hisle: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Jackson 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
Wanblee	12.3 miles	7
Long Valley	14.2 miles	5
Potato Creek	15.4 miles	6
Interior	25.3 miles	6
Weta	25.5 miles	6
Sevenmile Corner	30.1 miles	6
Cactus Flat	30.6 miles	6
Kadoka Junction	32.1 miles	6

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 Hisle	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q23709375	The 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 1267217. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.