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Hub City, South Dakota

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Garfield Township. It lies in ZIP code area 57004. The Survey maps it on the Hub City quadrangle.

Hub City within Clay County

On record in Hub City

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 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 18 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

10 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Hub City between 1998 and 2020, burning about 146 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
Debris and open burning5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Smoking1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
22 September 1999Debris and open burning2.0 acresVermillion Volunteer Fire DepartmentHUOT
4 July 2014Debris and open burning3.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionRICHLAND
1 May 2008Smokingunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named
5 April 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresAlcester Volunteer Fire DepartmentWEST INTERSTATE
23 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionNONE
4 March 2000Debris and open burning5.0 acresVermillion Volunteer Fire DepartmentBURBACH
13 December 1998Debris and open burning20 acresLake Preston Volunteer Fire DepartmentGRASS FIRE
22 November 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresAlcester Volunteer Fire DepartmentUNKNOWN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clay County

Storms near this place

10 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hub City in 10 storm reports between 1999 and 2023: 6 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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
May 2008Thunderstorm WindHub City$5,000Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage and blew shingles off a roof.
May 2023HailHub City-A significant accumulation of pea to dime size hail occurred.
May 2023Thunderstorm WindHub City-Thunderstorm winds snapped several large trees.
June 2000Tornado (F0)Hub City-A brief tornado caused no reported damage.
May 2008HailHub City-no account filed
June 2008HailHub City-no account filed
May 2003HailHub City-no account filed
June 2003HailHub City-no account filed
June 2002Thunderstorm WindHub City-no account filed
May 1999HailHub City-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Clay 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
Marshalltown (historical)0.9 miles18
Dalesburg1.6 miles18
Clay Point3.0 miles18
Bloomingdale3.4 miles18
Lodi4.7 miles18
Komstad (historical)5.9 miles10
Greenfield5.9 miles19
Westreville6.6 miles9

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 Hub CityAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q110413856The 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 1255697. 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.