BlockMoenville, South Dakota
6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the East Haakon unorganized territory. It lies in ZIP code area 57552. The Survey maps it on the Moenville quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 6 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.
- 1954 USGS Pierre quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Pierre quadrangle1:250000
- 1983 USGS Moenville quadrangle1:24000
- 1983 USGS Philip quadrangle1:100000
- 1984 USGS Philip quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
5 since 2003Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Moenville between 2003 and 2008, burning about 419 acres in total. 3 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31 August 2005 | Natural | under an acre | Cheyenne River Agency | PHILLIP |
| 2 August 2005 | Natural | 317 acres | Cheyenne River Agency | COTTONWOOD |
| 12 August 2006 | Natural | 100 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | not named |
| 15 April 2008 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | not named |
| 12 March 2003 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 1266868. 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.