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Okobojo, South Dakota

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the West Sully unorganized territory. It lies in ZIP code area 57501. The Survey maps it on the Okobojo quadrangle.

Okobojo within Sully County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 6 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

8 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Okobojo between 2000 and 2009, burning about 745 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 use4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Debris and open burning1
Natural1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
17 September 2000Naturalunder an acreOnida Volunteer Fire DepartmentSPRINKLE
17 July 2003Equipment and vehicle use200 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named
16 July 2003Equipment and vehicle use420 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionASMUSSEN WHEAT
15 July 2003Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named
28 June 2001Equipment and vehicle use20 acresAgar Volunteer Fire DepartmentWITTLER FARMS
5 April 2000Debris and open burning100 acresOnida Volunteer Fire DepartmentSUTTON
30 March 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named
16 February 2009Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sully County

Storms near this place

19 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Okobojo in 19 storm reports between 2002 and 2025: 14 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail. 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
August 2019Thunderstorm WindOkobojo-Sixty mph winds were estimated.
October 2011Thunderstorm WindOkobojo-Sixty-five mph winds were estimated.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindOkobojo-Sixty mph winds were estimated.
August 2004Thunderstorm WindOkobojo-Strong winds blew a sign down.
August 2003Thunderstorm WindOkobojo-Seventy mph winds blew several windows out of a lodge and blew a 20 foot long boat across a parking lot.
August 2002Thunderstorm WindOkobojo-A 14 by 70 foot mobile home was completely destroyed by ninety mph winds.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindOkobojo-no account filed
July 2025Thunderstorm WindOkobojo-no account filed
July 2025Thunderstorm WindOkobojo-no account filed
June 2024Thunderstorm WindOkobojo-no account filed
June 2024Thunderstorm WindOkobojo-no account filed
July 2024Thunderstorm WindOkobojo-no account filed
July 2024Thunderstorm WindOkobojo-no account filed
July 2023Thunderstorm WindOkobojo-no account filed
August 2019HailOkobojo-no account filed
September 2014HailOkobojo-no account filed
June 2008HailOkobojo-no account filed
August 2002HailOkobojo-no account filed
July 2002HailOkobojo-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sully 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
Onida18.3 miles5
Eakin19.4 miles6
Agar21.4 miles6

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 OkobojoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q15700816The 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 1261050. 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.