Hooker, South Dakota
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Turner Township. It lies in ZIP code area 57070. The Survey maps it on the Viborg quadrangle.
On record in Hooker
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register within a mile 1 record
The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.
- Turner Township Bridge No. SE-18listed 2000 · 0.9 miles away
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 11 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.
- 1898 USGS Parker quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1955 USGS Sioux Falls quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Sioux Falls quadrangle1:250000
- 1968 USGS Viborg quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Freeman quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
17 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Hooker between 1999 and 2020, burning about 112 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 | 8 |
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Other causes | 1 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | BREEZY CORN |
| 30 July 2000 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Viborg Volunteer Fire Department | LEFTY JORGENSEN |
| 20 July 2000 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Viborg Volunteer Fire Department | RICHARD OLSON |
| 4 June 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | STALK |
| 3 June 2003 | Other causes | 2.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | not named |
| 2 May 2020 | Smoking | under an acre | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | DITCH |
| 15 May 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 13 acres | Turner County | JACOBSEN WALK ABOUT |
| 14 May 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | PIT FIRE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
5 since 2012Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hooker in 5 storm reports between 2012 and 2018: 3 hail, 1 flood, 1 flash flood. 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 2013 | Hail | Hooker | $1,000 | Large hail caused an unknown amount of damage to crops, and also damaged siding on a house. |
| June 2018 | Flood | Hooker | - | Heavy rainfall from the previous day caused significant ponding of water and drastic increases in small stream levels. County roads were closed as waters from Frog Creek and Turkey Ridge Creek inundated roadways. |
| September 2018 | Flash Flood | Hooker | - | Several paved county roads were underwater around Davis, including 461st Avenue. Several gravel roads also underwater, some impassable. |
| September 2012 | Hail | Hooker | - | no account filed |
| September 2012 | Hail | Hooker | - | 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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Viborg | 3.6 miles | 11 | |
| Davis | 4.3 miles | 10 | |
| Centerville | 6.5 miles | 10 | |
| Hurley | 6.7 miles | 11 | |
| Chancellor | 12.0 miles | 10 | |
| Cameron Colony | 12.6 miles | 11 | |
| Spring Valley | 12.9 miles | 11 | |
| Turkey Ridge | 13.8 miles | 11 |
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 Hooker | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q20657855 | 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 1261019. 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.




