Madra, South Dakota

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the West McPherson unorganized territory. It lies in ZIP code area 57437. The Survey maps it on the Greenway quadrangle.

Madra within McPherson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 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.

1954 USGS Aberdeen quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1956 USGS Aberdeen quadrangle1:250000
1978 USGS Greenway quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Eureka quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

Fires near this place

15 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Madra between 1998 and 2020, burning about 1,490 acres in total. 4 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 use	8
Natural	4
Debris and open burning	3

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
5 August 2000	Natural	4.0 acres	Eureka Volunteer Fire Department	WAYNE LUTZ
2 August 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
15 August 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	20 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
27 July 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	10 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	DEAN SCHUMACHER
18 July 1998	Natural	15 acres	McLaughlin Volunteer Fire Department	TOM KNUDSON
10 July 2008	Natural	5.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
25 April 2013	Debris and open burning	12 acres	McPherson	MIKE DEURMIER
21 April 2009	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Greenway

Every fire recorded in McPherson County

Storms near this place

8 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Madra in 8 storm reports between 2010 and 2021: 7 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Madra	-	Estimated ninety mph winds toppled several trees, downed a power line, and moved a semi.
June 2021	Hail	Madra	-	no account filed
June 2020	Hail	Madra	-	no account filed
June 2020	Hail	Madra	-	no account filed
August 2016	Hail	Madra	-	no account filed
August 2016	Hail	Madra	-	no account filed
August 2016	Hail	Madra	-	no account filed
June 2010	Hail	Madra	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in McPherson 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Greenway	1.4 miles	7
Eureka	12.2 miles	7
Hillsview	20.1 miles	7
Long Lake	27.6 miles	7
Leola	43.5 miles	8
Spring Creek Colony	44.4 miles	8
Grassland Colony	52.3 miles	8
Long Lake Colony	52.5 miles	8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1261120. 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.