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Sansarc, South Dakota

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the North Stanley unorganized territory. It lies in ZIP code area 57537. The Survey maps it on the Sansarc quadrangle.

Sansarc within Stanley County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 6 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

10 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Sansarc between 2000 and 2020, burning about 25,230 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
Equipment and vehicle use7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
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
17 September 2000Natural25,000 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionHAYES
16 September 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionNORMAN HAY TRAILER
13 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined100 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionSTOESER BALER FIRE
8 July 2020Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionMARC SCARBOROUGH
8 July 2016Equipment and vehicle use40 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionMEIRER STUBBLE
11 July 2020Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionZAY NORMAN
13 May 2017Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionMORK NORMAN TRACTOR
22 April 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionSWANSON FIRE

Every fire recorded in Stanley County

Storms near this place

23 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sansarc in 23 storm reports between 2001 and 2020: 17 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind. 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 2020Thunderstorm WindSansarc-Hail along with estimated sixty mph winds damaged the siding of the house.
August 2020HailSansarc-Baseball size hail broke six windows on the north and west sides of the home.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindSansarc-Estimated eighty mph winds took the roof off an outbuilding along with blowing the door in on another outbuilding.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindSansarc-Sixty mph winds downed many large tree branches along with one tree.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindSansarc-Sixty mph winds were estimated by a trained spotter.
June 2008HailSansarc-Several windows were broken by the large hail.
August 2020HailSansarc-no account filed
August 2020HailSansarc-no account filed
August 2020HailSansarc-no account filed
June 2016HailSansarc-no account filed
June 2016HailSansarc-no account filed
April 2015HailSansarc-no account filed
April 2015HailSansarc-no account filed
June 2015HailSansarc-no account filed
June 2015Thunderstorm WindSansarc-no account filed
July 2015HailSansarc-no account filed
July 2015HailSansarc-no account filed
June 2014HailSansarc-no account filed
June 2014HailSansarc-no account filed
August 2011HailSansarc-no account filed
June 2008Thunderstorm WindSansarc-no account filed
May 2007HailSansarc-no account filed
July 2001HailSansarc-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Stanley 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
Hayes9.4 miles6
Orton17.4 miles6
Lacy17.7 miles9
Mission Ridge18.0 miles6
Bunker (historical)18.8 miles6
Pheba (historical)20.7 miles6
Wendte26.7 miles8
Teton31.8 miles10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1257807. 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.