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Plana, South Dakota

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1894 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Cambria Township. It lies in ZIP code area 57427. The Survey maps it on the Columbia quadrangle.

Plana within Brown County

On record in Plana

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 2 records

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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

22 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 22 fires within 5 miles of Plana between 2000 and 2017, burning about 7,051 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Equipment and vehicle use5
Debris and open burning2
Smoking1
Fireworks1
Natural1

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
12 August 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionI90
4 July 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionKEVIN RORHBACH
4 July 2008Fireworksunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named
27 July 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression248TH
15 July 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionMIKE
28 May 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionTREASURE ISLAND
13 May 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined9.0 acresBrown CountyHULL
11 May 2004Natural1,200 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionRIVER BOTTOM

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Brown County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Plana: 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Schlosser PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Brown County

Storms near this place

14 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Plana in 14 storm reports between 2009 and 2025: 9 flood, 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2025FloodPlana-The river near Columbia went into flood at 9:15 p.m. CST on August 10th and remained in flood through the rest of the month. It crested at 15.15 feet, which is 2.15 feet above flood stage, primarily impacting agricultural lands.
September 2025FloodPlana-Despite cresting in August, the James River would remain in flood through much of the month of September. The James River near Columbia fell below flood stage late in the morning of September 22nd. This flooding mainly impacts agricultural bottomlands.
May 2023FloodPlana-The James River near Columbia started the month at 17.80 feet, and crested at 18.07 feet on May 13th, and has been more or less steady with a slight trend downwards through the latter half of May. Impacts are limited to flooding of agricultural lands.
April 2023FloodPlana-The James River near Columbia crested just below major flood stage at 17.85 feet on April 30th. This flooding impacted a significant amount of agricultural lands.
April 2023FloodPlana-The Elm River at Ordway crested at 14.78 feet, 1.78 feet above flood stage, on the evening of April 19th.
August 2023FloodPlana-The James river gauge at Columbia observed a level of 16.0 feet on August 1st. Over the course of the month the river level dropped slowly, finally falling below the flood stage of 13.0 feet on the morning of August 23rd, 130 days after the initial start of flooding. Flooding continued to mostly impact cropland and pastures, along with a few county roads.
June 2022FloodPlana-The James River near Stratford was in moderate flood stage throughout June. It crested at 18.33 feet at 1am one June 5th.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindPlana-A tree was downed onto a power line by sixty-five mph winds.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindPlana-Seventy mph winds blew down a grain bin and tossed it approximately 50 yards taking out a power pole in the process. The grain bin was empty and not properly anchored to the cement base.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindPlana-A large machine shed received major damage to a wall and the roof due to eighty mph winds.
August 2022FloodPlana-no account filed
September 2013FloodPlana-no account filed
September 2013HailPlana-no account filed
August 2009HailPlana-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Brown 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
Bath3.6 miles11
Tacoma Park3.7 miles9
Bath Corner4.3 miles11
Prairiewood Village6.0 miles10
Prairie Wood Village Addition6.3 miles10
James6.3 miles11
Columbia6.5 miles10
Jobee Acres6.8 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1265322. 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.

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.