BlockOsceola, South Dakota
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Le Sueur Township. It lies in ZIP code area 57353. The Survey maps it on the Bancroft West quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 11 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.
- 1899 USGS De Smet quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Watertown quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Watertown quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1971 USGS Bancroft West quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS De Smet quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
Fires near this place
1 since 2020Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Osceola in 2020, burning under an acre in total. None 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 April 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | PATTY KUSCHEL |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
11 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Osceola in 11 storm reports between 1996 and 2022: 5 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 flood, 2 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2011 | Flood | Osceola | $1,000,000 | Flooding of lakes and lowlands, including farmland, continued in the county through April. While flooding of small streams abated, lake flooding, particularly of Lakes Thompson and Henry, worsened. Numerous roads remained flooded and several were closed. Several homes were flooded, especially along Lake Thompson. High water and groundwater levels resulting from record precipitation in the previous year was the main reason that the flooding either grew worse or improved so slowly. |
| October 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Osceola | $10,000 | no account filed |
| June 2022 | Tornado (EF1) | Osceola | - | A tornado spun up in an open field one-quarter mile west of 418th Ave north of 204th Street in Beadle County. The tornado tracked east-northeast until reaching the county line. In Beadle County, the tornado caused no damage from which the NWS could assign an EF-scale rating. The tornado continued into Kingsbury County where it produced EF1 damage to power poles near the end of the track as it crossed 421st Avenue. The estimated maximum wind was 105 mph and the average path width in Kingsbury County was 40 yards. |
| June 2013 | Tornado (EF0) | Osceola | - | A brief tornado caused tree damage. |
| March 2011 | Flood | Osceola | - | Melting of a heavy winter snow cover caused flooding of lowlands, lakes, and small streams, including considerable flooding of farmland. Especially notable was the flooding of Lake Thompson. Numerous roads in the county were flooded. Some of the roads were closed, and some were washed out in spots. The flooding onset was rapid for a snow melt flood due to high water and groundwater levels from record precipitation in the year 2010. |
| June 2008 | Hail | Osceola | - | no account filed |
| August 2008 | Hail | Osceola | - | no account filed |
| June 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Osceola | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Osceola | - | no account filed |
| July 2000 | Hail | Osceola | - | no account filed |
| July 2000 | Hail | Osceola | - | 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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bancroft | 4.9 miles | 11 | |
| Iroquois | 7.0 miles | 11 | |
| Fairview (historical) | 8.5 miles | 11 | |
| Manchester | 9.2 miles | 11 | |
| Esmond | 14.6 miles | 11 | |
| De Smet | 16.2 miles | 11 | |
| Erwin | 20.9 miles | 9 | |
| Lake Preston | 25.5 miles | 9 |
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 Osceola | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q23709408 | 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 1261130. 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.