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.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 8 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.
- 1899 USGS Redfield quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Huron quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1954 USGS Huron quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Miranda quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Redfield quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
3 since 1998Regional 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 use | 1 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16 July 2006 | Natural | 15 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | not named |
| 19 March 2004 | Debris and open burning | 650 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | GROTTLE BROS. |
| 9 December 1998 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | McLaughlin Volunteer Fire Department | CAR/GRASS |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
19 since 1995Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Miranda | - | Sixty mph winds were estimated. |
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Miranda | - | Seventy mph winds downed four power poles along with causing some crop damage. |
| June 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Miranda | - | Sixty mph gusts estimated near Miranda. |
| June 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Miranda | - | Seventy mph winds brought down several large trees and many branches. |
| July 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Miranda | - | Winds of 70 mph broke six to eight inch diameter tree limbs in Miranda. A hog shed was also destroyed near Miranda. |
| June 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Miranda | - | no account filed |
| June 2014 | Hail | Miranda | - | no account filed |
| August 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Miranda | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Miranda | - | no account filed |
| September 2010 | Hail | Miranda | - | no account filed |
| September 2010 | Hail | Miranda | - | no account filed |
| April 2007 | Hail | Miranda | - | no account filed |
| August 2006 | Hail | Miranda | - | no account filed |
| May 2005 | Hail | Miranda | - | no account filed |
| August 2005 | Hail | Miranda | - | no account filed |
| August 2003 | Hail | Miranda | - | no account filed |
| July 2002 | Hail | Miranda | - | no account filed |
| July 2002 | Hail | Miranda | - | no account filed |
| August 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Miranda | - | 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.
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.




