Powell, South Dakota

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Powell Township. It lies in ZIP code area 57451. The Survey maps it on the Ipswich SE quadrangle.

Powell within Edmunds County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 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.

1954 USGS Aberdeen quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1956 USGS Aberdeen quadrangle1:250000
1974 USGS Ipswich SE quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Gettysburg quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

Fires near this place

7 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Powell between 2001 and 2017, burning about 280 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/undetermined	4
Natural	1
Debris and open burning	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
5 August 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	25 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	WILLIAMS 2
29 August 2001	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Ipswich Volunteer Fire Department	EMMLER
30 July 2006	Natural	60 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
13 April 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	BARRINGER
12 April 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	136 acres	Sand Lake National Wildlife Refuge	HOFFMAN
8 October 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	45 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	MIDLAND FARM
20 October 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	WILLIAMS HAY FIRE

Every fire recorded in Edmunds 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
Ipswich	10.8 miles	7
Craven	12.0 miles	8
Craven Corner	12.3 miles	8
Loyalton	13.2 miles	7
Beebe	14.0 miles	7
Mina	17.5 miles	8
Roscoe	19.7 miles	7
Plainview Colony	20.3 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 Powell	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q23709414	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 1261057. 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.