Mosher, South Dakota

5 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Mosher Township. It lies in ZIP code area 57585. The Survey maps it on the Mosher quadrangle.

Mosher within Mellette County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 5 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.

1955 USGS Martin quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Martin quadrangle1:250000
1982 USGS Mission quadrangle1:100000
1982 USGS Mosher quadrangle1:25000

Fires near this place

18 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Mosher between 1994 and 2018, burning about 410 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 1 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	8
Natural	5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Debris and open burning	2
Arson/incendiarism	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
7 August 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	120 acres	Rosebud Agency	RING NECK
5 August 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	80 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
21 August 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	BAD WHRILWIND 4 WHEELER
4 July 1997	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Rosebud Agency	CAR#13
24 July 1996	Equipment and vehicle use	56 acres	Rosebud Agency	MOSHER
22 July 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	Rosebud Agency	GUSTAFSON
20 July 2009	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Rosebud Agency	WEATHERMAN
1 July 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	DAU'S DISK BINE

Every fire recorded in Mellette County

Storms near this place

11 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mosher in 11 storm reports between 2000 and 2024: 5 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 flood. 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
June 2008	Flood	Mosher	$100,000	Flooding was observed along the White River, Little White River, Cottonwood Creek, and their tributaries across northern Mellette County.
June 2024	Flash Flood	Mosher	$10,000	Runoff from heavy rain caused a couple of rural roads to be inundated with water and debris. Farmland was also flooding due to the intensity of the rain.
August 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Mosher	-	Wind gusts were estimated at 60 mph.
August 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Mosher	-	Wind gusts were estimated near 70 mph.
June 2019	Hail	Mosher	-	no account filed
August 2019	Hail	Mosher	-	no account filed
August 2006	Hail	Mosher	-	no account filed
August 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Mosher	-	no account filed
May 2003	Hail	Mosher	-	no account filed
July 2000	Hail	Mosher	-	no account filed
July 2000	Tornado (F0)	Mosher	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Mellette 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
Wood	9.7 miles	5
Badnation	13.2 miles	7
White River	24.7 miles	6
Cedar Butte	38.9 miles	5
Norris	47.6 miles	5
Corn Creek	48.3 miles	5

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 Mosher	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q23709403	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 1261125. 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.