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Lyman, South Dakota

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Rex Township. It lies in ZIP code area 57569. The Survey maps it on the Lyman quadrangle.

Lyman within Lyman County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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

17 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Lyman between 2000 and 2020, burning about 687 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
Equipment and vehicle use12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5

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
6 September 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionSTEWART # 2
5 September 2020Equipment and vehicle use161 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionSTEWART N BARTHLOW
19 August 2000Equipment and vehicle use50 acresKennebec Volunteer Fire DepartmentDEJONGS
8 July 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionSE LYMAN FIRE
30 July 2020Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionKENNOBIE BALE
25 July 2016Equipment and vehicle use232 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionLYMAN CA
25 July 2016Equipment and vehicle use232 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionHICKEY
23 July 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression1 90 TIRE FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lyman County

Storms near this place

19 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lyman in 19 storm reports between 1999 and 2025: 12 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood. 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
July 2025HailLyman-A trained spotter reported hen egg to tennis ball-sized hail near Lyman. The time was estimated based on radar.
August 2017Thunderstorm WindLyman-Sixty-five mph winds downed several large tree branches.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindLyman-Sixty mph winds rolled several hay bales.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindLyman-Sixty mph winds were estimated by the public.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindLyman-Seventy mph winds were estimated by the public.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindLyman-A semi trailer was overturned on Interstate-90 west of Lyman by seventy mph winds.
February 2024FloodLyman-no account filed
July 2018HailLyman-no account filed
August 2017HailLyman-no account filed
August 2017HailLyman-no account filed
August 2017HailLyman-no account filed
July 2012HailLyman-no account filed
July 2010HailLyman-no account filed
July 2008HailLyman-no account filed
July 2008HailLyman-no account filed
May 2005Thunderstorm WindLyman-no account filed
August 2002HailLyman-no account filed
July 2000HailLyman-no account filed
July 1999HailLyman-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lyman 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
Kennebec6.7 miles8
Reliance7.2 miles8
Council House15.7 miles8
Lower Brule16.0 miles8
Presho17.0 miles6
Oacoma19.1 miles11
Iona28.7 miles11
Vivian29.5 miles6

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1265286. 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.