Miscol, South Dakota

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the West Corson unorganized territory. It lies in ZIP code area 57641. The Survey maps it on the Miscol quadrangle.

Miscol within Corson 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.

1953 USGS McIntosh quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1956 USGS Miscol quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1958 USGS McIntosh quadrangle1:250000
1980 USGS McIntosh quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

33 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 33 fires within 5 miles of Miscol between 1993 and 2017, burning about 14,485 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 3 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
Equipment and vehicle use	11
Natural	8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8
Arson/incendiarism	3
Fireworks	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
28 September 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Standing Rock Agency	TORRVEL
10 September 1997	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Standing Rock Agency	JOELEAF
5 August 2006	Natural	2.0 acres	Standing Rock Agency	STONE MAN CHURCH II
5 August 2001	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Standing Rock Agency	KUHNHOUSE
4 August 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Standing Rock Agency	NEW HOLLAND
30 August 2012	Natural	5.6 acres	Standing Rock Agency	TATANKA
30 August 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20 acres	Standing Rock Agency	UNNAMED NO. 2
3 August 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	HOLLAND FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Corson 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
Bullhead	7.5 miles	8
Black Horse	11.9 miles	7
Walker	16.5 miles	6
Little Eagle	19.0 miles	8
McIntosh	19.6 miles	7
McLaughlin	20.9 miles	8
Maple Leaf	22.4 miles	7
Watauga	26.4 miles	7

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.

Wikidata item Q122553104

The 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 1261123. 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.