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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.

Hooker within Turner County

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.

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 11 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.

Fires near this place

17 since 1999

Regional 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/undetermined8
Debris and open burning3
Equipment and vehicle use3
Recreation and ceremony1
Other causes1
Smoking1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
29 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionBREEZY CORN
30 July 2000Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreViborg Volunteer Fire DepartmentLEFTY JORGENSEN
20 July 2000Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreViborg Volunteer Fire DepartmentRICHARD OLSON
4 June 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionSTALK
3 June 2003Other causes2.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named
2 May 2020Smokingunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionDITCH
15 May 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined13 acresTurner CountyJACOBSEN WALK ABOUT
14 May 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionPIT FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Turner County

Storms near this place

5 since 2012

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2013HailHooker$1,000Large hail caused an unknown amount of damage to crops, and also damaged siding on a house.
June 2018FloodHooker-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 2018Flash FloodHooker-Several paved county roads were underwater around Davis, including 461st Avenue. Several gravel roads also underwater, some impassable.
September 2012HailHooker-no account filed
September 2012HailHooker-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Turner 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Viborg3.6 miles11
Davis4.3 miles10
Centerville6.5 miles10
Hurley6.7 miles11
Chancellor12.0 miles10
Cameron Colony12.6 miles11
Spring Valley12.9 miles11
Turkey Ridge13.8 miles11

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 HookerAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q20657855The 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.