BlockPeever Flats, South Dakota
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1916 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Lawrence Township. It lies in ZIP code area 57257. It stands on Big Spring Creek. The Survey maps it on the Peever quadrangle. 129 people lived here at the 2020 count.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 12 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.
- 1916 USGS Peever quadrangle1:62500
- 1918 USGS Peever quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
- 1953 USGS Milbank quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Milbank quadrangle1:250000
- 1971 USGS Peever quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Wheaton quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
32 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 32 fires within 5 miles of Peever Flats between 1992 and 2012, burning about 904 acres in total. 2 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 | 16 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 7 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Natural | 2 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 September 1995 | Misuse of fire by a minor | 40 acres | Sisseton Agency | PEEVFLAT |
| 31 July 2006 | Equipment and vehicle use | 4.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | not named |
| 18 July 2002 | Natural | under an acre | Sisseton Agency | EASTMANRD |
| 6 June 2012 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Sisseton Agency | LAST |
| 2 May 2002 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 25 acres | Sisseton Agency | GERMAN |
| 8 April 1996 | Debris and open burning | 160 acres | Sisseton Agency | LBAR |
| 7 April 2003 | Debris and open burning | 12 acres | Sisseton Agency | THISSEN |
| 7 April 1992 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Sisseton Agency | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Peever Flats: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Peever | 1.7 miles | 12 | |
| Spring Grove | 7.4 miles | 7 | |
| Goodwill | 7.7 miles | 6 | |
| Wilmot | 9.0 miles | 6 | |
| Hiawatha Beach | 10.8 miles | 8 | |
| Madsen Beach | 11.3 miles | 8 | |
| Sisseton | 11.4 miles | 6 | |
| Rudebusch Corner | 13.3 miles | 7 |
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 Peever Flats | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q108809399 | 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 1263894. 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.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.