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Olsonville, South Dakota

5 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the East Todd unorganized territory. It lies in ZIP code area 69201. The Survey maps it on the Olsonville quadrangle.

Olsonville within Todd 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.

Fires near this place

44 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 44 fires within 5 miles of Olsonville between 1992 and 2016, burning about 698 acres in total. 11 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 use13
Natural11
Debris and open burning8
Arson/incendiarism3
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Other causes2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Smoking1

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
6 September 2000Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresRosebud AgencyDOG HAY
29 September 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreRosebud AgencyPILE
21 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresRosebud AgencyRANGE
20 September 2008Other causesunder an acreRosebud AgencySPONTANEOUS
16 September 2006Naturalunder an acreRosebud AgencyDON
27 August 2011Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreRosebud AgencyPALMER
22 August 2009Debris and open burning218 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named
22 August 2008Other causesunder an acreRosebud AgencySCHMITCH

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Todd County

Storms near this place

10 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Olsonville in 10 storm reports between 1998 and 2006: 5 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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
July 1999Thunderstorm WindOlsonville$10,000Spotters reported power lines blown down and several cars were damaged by fallen tree branches.
June 2006Thunderstorm WindOlsonville-no account filed
August 2003HailOlsonville-no account filed
June 2002HailOlsonville-no account filed
June 2002HailOlsonville-no account filed
June 2002HailOlsonville-no account filed
August 2002Thunderstorm WindOlsonville-no account filed
May 2000Thunderstorm WindOlsonville-no account filed
June 1999HailOlsonville-no account filed
June 1998Tornado (F0)Olsonville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Todd 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
Lakeview7.6 miles5
Littleburg10.1 miles5
Antelope Development Area12.1 miles5
Antelope12.1 miles5
Hidden Timber12.2 miles5
White Horse12.5 miles5
Mission12.6 miles5
Rosebud14.8 miles5

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 Q122539248The 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 1256891. 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.