BlockRandolph, South Dakota
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1894 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Garden Prairie Township. It lies in ZIP code area 57434. The Survey maps it on the Randolph quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 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.
- 1894 USGS Conde quadrangle1:62500
- 1895 USGS Aberdeen quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1954 USGS Aberdeen quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Aberdeen quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Randolph quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Aberdeen quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
10 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Randolph between 2000 and 2017, burning about 440 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 |
|---|---|
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Other causes | 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 2000 | Debris and open burning | 160 acres | Conde Volunteer Fire Department | LARRY HEARNEN |
| 16 September 2002 | Other causes | 5.0 acres | Stratford Volunteer Fire Department | GARDEN PRAIRIE 26 |
| 6 August 2001 | Equipment and vehicle use | 50 acres | Conde Volunteer Fire Department | DOUG SOMBKE |
| 30 August 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | 24 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | SECTION 16 |
| 21 August 2003 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | not named |
| 17 July 2002 | Equipment and vehicle use | 25 acres | Stratford Volunteer Fire Department | E. RONDELL 22 |
| 4 March 2000 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Brentford Volunteer Fire Department | SHUNKWILER |
| 11 February 2002 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Conde Volunteer Fire Department | WASHNOCK |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
3 since 2009Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Randolph in 3 storm reports between 2009 and 2023: 2 hail, 1 flood. 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 2023 | Flood | Randolph | - | The James River near Stratford gauge peaked just below moderate flood stage with 16.75 feet on April 30th. This flooded significant amounts of agricultural lands as well as portions of 137th Street and 140th Street. |
| August 2021 | Hail | Randolph | - | A satellite depicted hail swath from a severe thunderstorm from Edmunds county continued across southern Brown County and then to the east northeast into Day County. Hail size was up to baseball along the storm's path. The scar dimensions covered approximately 120 square miles in Brown County. |
| June 2009 | Hail | Randolph | - | 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.
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 Randolph | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q23709419 | 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 1257277. 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.