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Kadoka Junction, South Dakota

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Northeast Jackson unorganized territory. It lies in ZIP code area 57543. The Survey maps it on the Kadoka quadrangle.

Kadoka Junction within Jackson County

On record in Kadoka Junction

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 3 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 6 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

16 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Kadoka Junction between 2000 and 2018, burning about 442 acres in total. 3 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/undetermined6
Equipment and vehicle use5
Natural3
Debris and open burning1
Fireworks1

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
26 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionMM148
5 August 2006Natural15 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named
24 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionMM 147
5 July 2007Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named
27 July 2010Equipment and vehicle use130 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionWELLER
13 July 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionJERRY STOUT HAY FIELD
13 July 2006Natural100 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named
13 July 2006Natural120 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jackson 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
Kadoka0.7 miles6
Sevenmile Corner7.3 miles6
Weta11.1 miles6
Philip Junction11.6 miles6
Belvidere13.3 miles6
Cactus Flat19.7 miles6
Wanblee19.8 miles7
Cottonwood22.3 miles6

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 Q122566537The 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 1261906. 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.