BlockLaBolt, South Dakota
6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Georgia Township. It lies in ZIP code area 57246. The Survey maps it on the LaBolt quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 6 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.
- 1953 USGS Milbank quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Milbank quadrangle1:250000
- 1973 USGS LaBolt quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Milbank quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
5 since 2011Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of LaBolt between 2011 and 2018, burning about 16 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 May 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | CROP RESIDUE FIRE |
| 11 April 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | BERG |
| 24 March 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | STOCKHOLM |
| 30 November 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | CHRISTIANSON |
| 5 January 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | BOEHN |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
7 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names LaBolt in 7 storm reports between 1994 and 2023: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 2 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 1994 | Hail | Labolt | $50,000 | no account filed |
| May 2023 | Tornado (EF0) | Labolt | - | A storm chaser posted photos of a rope tornado moving through pasture and an open field. The tornado may have clipped some trees as well before dissipating. |
| May 2022 | Tornado (EF1) | Labolt | - | Two properties near the intersection of 164th St and 475th Ave sustained damage. The first farm had a roof ripped off a barn, damage to a machine shed, a destroyed stave silo, debris pierced through house walls, roof panels off house, broken house windows, snapped and uprooted trees, and a dented grain bin. The second residence had half a barn roof ripped off and tossed a quarter mile to the northeast. The track continued northeast roughly six miles, crossing Grant County Highway 15, between 158th St and 159th St. Near this location a farmstead sustained complete loss of a machine shed and power lines were downed. The track would come to an end roughly two more miles to the northeast near 157th St, where another farm would sustain complete loss to a machine shed and debris spread across the field to the north northeast. |
| May 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Labolt | - | Severe winds downed multiple trees and blew over a shed. |
| May 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Labolt | - | A trained spotter estimated wind gusts to around 70 mph. |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Labolt | - | Large branches were brought down by sixty mph winds. |
| June 2012 | Hail | Labolt | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Strandburg | 4.5 miles | 6 | |
| Revillo | 6.1 miles | 6 | |
| Albee | 6.5 miles | 6 | |
| Stockholm | 7.4 miles | 6 | |
| Troy | 10.0 miles | 6 | |
| Milbank | 11.8 miles | 6 | |
| Twin Brooks | 12.0 miles | 6 | |
| Marvin | 19.2 miles | 6 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1255992. 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.