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.
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 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
- 1965 USGS Okobojo quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Onida quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
8 since 2000Regional 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 use | 4 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17 September 2000 | Natural | under an acre | Onida Volunteer Fire Department | SPRINKLE |
| 17 July 2003 | Equipment and vehicle use | 200 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | not named |
| 16 July 2003 | Equipment and vehicle use | 420 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | ASMUSSEN WHEAT |
| 15 July 2003 | Equipment and vehicle use | 5.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | not named |
| 28 June 2001 | Equipment and vehicle use | 20 acres | Agar Volunteer Fire Department | WITTLER FARMS |
| 5 April 2000 | Debris and open burning | 100 acres | Onida Volunteer Fire Department | SUTTON |
| 30 March 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | not named |
| 16 February 2009 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
19 since 2002Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Okobojo | - | Sixty mph winds were estimated. |
| October 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Okobojo | - | Sixty-five mph winds were estimated. |
| July 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Okobojo | - | Sixty mph winds were estimated. |
| August 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Okobojo | - | Strong winds blew a sign down. |
| August 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Okobojo | - | Seventy mph winds blew several windows out of a lodge and blew a 20 foot long boat across a parking lot. |
| August 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Okobojo | - | A 14 by 70 foot mobile home was completely destroyed by ninety mph winds. |
| June 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Okobojo | - | no account filed |
| July 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Okobojo | - | no account filed |
| July 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Okobojo | - | no account filed |
| June 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Okobojo | - | no account filed |
| June 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Okobojo | - | no account filed |
| July 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Okobojo | - | no account filed |
| July 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Okobojo | - | no account filed |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Okobojo | - | no account filed |
| August 2019 | Hail | Okobojo | - | no account filed |
| September 2014 | Hail | Okobojo | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Okobojo | - | no account filed |
| August 2002 | Hail | Okobojo | - | no account filed |
| July 2002 | Hail | Okobojo | - | 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.
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 Okobojo | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q15700816 | 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 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.



