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Huntimer, South Dakota

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Taopi Township. It lies in ZIP code area 57018. The Survey maps it on the Colton quadrangle.

Huntimer within Minnehaha County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 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

42 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 42 fires within 5 miles of Huntimer between 1999 and 2020, burning about 286 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 were 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/undetermined23
Debris and open burning11
Fireworks3
Arson/incendiarism2
Smoking1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
30 August 2020Railroad operations and maintenance8.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionSODERQUIST
24 August 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionB KROGMAN BALE FIRE
6 July 2001Fireworks2.0 acresVermillion Volunteer Fire DepartmentNISSEN
5 July 2017Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionBRIDGE 3
2 July 2000Fireworksunder an acreColton Volunteer Fire DepartmentBENNETT OPLAND
14 July 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionLEONARD
1 July 2000Fireworksunder an acreColton Volunteer Fire DepartmentCASE HOEKMAN
6 June 2000Debris and open burning1.0 acresColton Volunteer Fire DepartmentMILTON EIDE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Minnehaha County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Huntimer: 2 past producers. 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Minnehaha County

Storms near this place

3 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Huntimer in 3 storm reports in 2019: 2 flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
September 2019FloodHuntimer$10,000After excessive two-day rainfall during September 10-12 (record 2-day 8.52 inches 2 miles north of Chester and 8.50 inches at Colton), Skunk Creek near Chester (gage site SCCS2) reached the second highest stage on record of 0.33 feet above flood stage on September 12. Significant amounts of agricultural land were inundated, with 467th Avenue closed north of Lyons.
March 2019FloodHuntimer-Snow melt and heavy rainfall (measured 2.01 inches 2 miles north of Chester) resulted in extensive flooding of agricultural land in the flood plain. Skunk Creek near Chester (gage site SCCS2) reached the second highest crest on record at 0.2 feet above flood stage on March 18.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindHuntimer-Several large limbs were broken off trees.

Every storm recorded in Minnehaha 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
Colton3.3 miles7
Lyons8.3 miles8
Baltic11.2 miles8
Dell Rapids11.9 miles8
Morefield13.1 miles8
Crooks13.3 miles8
Johnsons Addition13.7 miles8
Hartford14.6 miles8

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.

Wikidata item Q122549933The 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 1261112. 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.

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.