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Miranda, South Dakota

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Arcade Township. It lies in ZIP code area 57438. The Survey maps it on the Miranda quadrangle.

Miranda within Faulk 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

3 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Miranda between 1998 and 2006, burning about 666 acres in total. 1 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 use1
Natural1
Debris and open burning1

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
16 July 2006Natural15 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named
19 March 2004Debris and open burning650 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionGROTTLE BROS.
9 December 1998Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMcLaughlin Volunteer Fire DepartmentCAR/GRASS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Faulk County

Storms near this place

19 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Miranda in 19 storm reports between 1995 and 2019: 10 hail, 9 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
July 2019Thunderstorm WindMiranda-Sixty mph winds were estimated.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindMiranda-Seventy mph winds downed four power poles along with causing some crop damage.
June 2012Thunderstorm WindMiranda-Sixty mph gusts estimated near Miranda.
June 2001Thunderstorm WindMiranda-Seventy mph winds brought down several large trees and many branches.
July 1995Thunderstorm WindMiranda-Winds of 70 mph broke six to eight inch diameter tree limbs in Miranda. A hog shed was also destroyed near Miranda.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindMiranda-no account filed
June 2014HailMiranda-no account filed
August 2013Thunderstorm WindMiranda-no account filed
June 2011Thunderstorm WindMiranda-no account filed
September 2010HailMiranda-no account filed
September 2010HailMiranda-no account filed
April 2007HailMiranda-no account filed
August 2006HailMiranda-no account filed
May 2005HailMiranda-no account filed
August 2005HailMiranda-no account filed
August 2003HailMiranda-no account filed
July 2002HailMiranda-no account filed
July 2002HailMiranda-no account filed
August 1996Thunderstorm WindMiranda-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Faulk 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
Orient8.3 miles9
Rockham8.8 miles8
Devoe9.4 miles8
Faulkton9.5 miles8
Evergreen Colony11.3 miles8
Zell13.5 miles8
Cresbard13.7 miles8
Wecota16.0 miles8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1256492. 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.