Pearsons Corner, South Dakota

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Mayfield Township. It lies in ZIP code area 57070. The Survey maps it on the Turkey Ridge quadrangle.

Pearsons Corner within Yankton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 11 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.

1898 USGS Parker quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
1955 USGS Sioux Falls quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Sioux Falls quadrangle1:250000
1970 USGS Turkey Ridge quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Freeman quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

19 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Pearsons Corner between 1999 and 2020, burning about 361 acres 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
Debris and open burning	11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8

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 September 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
17 August 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	IFD
6 April 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	HILL TOP FIRE
12 April 2003	Debris and open burning	15 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
1 April 2003	Debris and open burning	10 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
28 March 2003	Debris and open burning	10 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
25 March 2003	Debris and open burning	20 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
24 March 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	40 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	IRENE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Yankton 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
Midway	5.2 miles	12
Mayfield	6.0 miles	11
Vedin Corner	7.4 miles	11
Jamesville Colony	9.8 miles	11
Jamesville	9.9 miles	11
Valleyview	14.1 miles	10
Utica	16.1 miles	9
Volin	16.4 miles	10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1261054. 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.