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Marcus, South Dakota

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Belle Fourche-Cheyenne Valleys unorganized territory. It lies in ZIP code area 57792. It stands on Spring Creek. The Survey maps it on the Marcus quadrangle.

Marcus within Meade County

On record in Marcus

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 1 record

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.

Fires near this place

10 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Marcus between 1993 and 2016, burning about 4,536 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 2 were 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/undetermined4
Natural2
Arson/incendiarism2
Smoking1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
7 September 2011Smoking15 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionCAMPTON
12 September 2000Naturalunder an acreEnning Volunteer Fire DepartmentKING
3 August 2006Natural2,000 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionRED OWL
1 August 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined1,300 acresOpal Volunteer Fire DepartmentWICKS
1 August 2002Arson/incendiarism870 acresCheyenne River AgencyMARCU
6 July 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionSCHULTZ
31 July 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined250 acresOpal Volunteer Fire DepartmentSIMON/JORDAN
29 July 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined80 acresEnning Volunteer Fire DepartmentSCHULTZ

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Meade County

Storms near this place

14 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Marcus in 14 storm reports between 1997 and 2020: 8 hail, 6 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
October 1997Thunderstorm WindMarcus$3,000Roofs were blown off several buildings.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindMarcus-Large ash tree was snapped in half by the wind.
June 2012Thunderstorm WindMarcus-Wind gusts were estimated at 60 mph.
October 2011Thunderstorm WindMarcus-Wind gusts were estimated at 60 mph.
July 2020HailMarcus-no account filed
June 2018HailMarcus-no account filed
June 2015HailMarcus-no account filed
October 2011HailMarcus-no account filed
May 2010HailMarcus-no account filed
June 2007HailMarcus-no account filed
June 2007Thunderstorm WindMarcus-no account filed
July 2007HailMarcus-no account filed
June 2005HailMarcus-no account filed
July 2005Thunderstorm WindMarcus-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Meade 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
Plainview7.1 miles7
White Owl9.5 miles7
Howes12.0 miles8
Redowl15.1 miles7
Enning16.4 miles8
Avance (historical)18.0 miles7
Opal18.7 miles7
Stoneville20.9 miles7

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 MarcusAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q23709398The 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 1256322. 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.