BlockImlay, South Dakota
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1981. It stands in Imlay Township. It lies in ZIP code area 57780. It lies near Keester Table. The Survey maps it on the Imlay quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
3 surveys from 9 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.
- 1950 USGS Imlay quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1955 USGS Hot Springs quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1981 USGS Wall quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
17 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Imlay between 1994 and 2020, burning about 3,810 acres in total. 13 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 | 13 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2017 | Natural | under an acre | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | 1 BALE FIRE |
| 9 September 2005 | Natural | 833 acres | Pine Ridge Agency | SANDHILLS |
| 8 August 2006 | Natural | 14 acres | Badlands National Park | MCGINTY |
| 29 August 2002 | Natural | 5.0 acres | Badlands National Park | WHITCHER |
| 20 August 2006 | Natural | 3.0 acres | Pine Ridge Agency | GOBLIN |
| 17 August 2017 | Natural | 5.9 acres | Nebraska National Forest | BOUQUET SOUTH |
| 8 July 2005 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Pine Ridge Agency | BEANS |
| 7 July 2000 | Natural | 350 acres | Pine Ridge Agency | WITCHER |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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.
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 Imlay | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q23709382 | 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 1261861. 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.