BlockJordan Junction, South Dakota
5 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Jordan Township. It lies in ZIP code area 57580. The Survey maps it on the Witten quadrangle. It stands 2,028 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 5 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.
- 1955 USGS Martin quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Martin quadrangle1:250000
- 1982 USGS Mission quadrangle1:100000
- 1982 USGS Witten quadrangle1:25000
Fires near this place
24 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 24 fires within 5 miles of Jordan Junction between 1995 and 2016, burning about 337 acres in total. 1 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 | 9 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 5 |
| Debris and open burning | 4 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 September 2010 | Equipment and vehicle use | 10 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | DON VOGT |
| 30 September 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | VOGT0929 |
| 22 September 1995 | Natural | under an acre | Rosebud Agency | WINNER |
| 6 August 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | not named |
| 3 August 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | HOLZER0803 |
| 27 August 2001 | Equipment and vehicle use | 15 acres | Winner Volunteer Fire Department | CHRIS NOVOTNY |
| 22 August 2000 | Debris and open burning | 80 acres | Winner Volunteer Fire Department | DOUG PEDERSON |
| 6 July 2009 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Rosebud Agency | COPPER |
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 Jordan Junction | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q6276654 | 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 1255885. 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.