Sheffield, South Dakota

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Cavour Township. It lies in ZIP code area 57350. The Survey maps it on the Huron NE quadrangle.

Sheffield within Beadle County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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.

1898 USGS Huron quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1953 USGS Huron quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1954 USGS Huron quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Huron NE quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Huron quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

8 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Sheffield between 1999 and 2015, burning about 448 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Debris and open burning	3
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
23 May 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	VERN KAHRE
2 May 2002	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Huron Volunteer Fire Dept.	KLEINSASSER
30 April 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	KIRK
19 April 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	MEIERS
26 March 1999	Railroad operations and maintenance	400 acres	Bristol Volunteer Fire Department	BNSF
21 March 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	KIRK FORD
20 March 1999	Debris and open burning	40 acres	Yankton Volunteer Fire Department	UTICA GRAVEL PIT
6 November 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Huron Volunteer Fire Dept.	RANDY OHM

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Beadle 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
Cavour	3.5 miles	10
Yale	4.7 miles	11
Riverside Colony	6.1 miles	10
Morningside	6.9 miles	10
Huron	8.2 miles	10
Pearl Creek Colony	10.3 miles	11
James Valley Junction	12.0 miles	9
Huron Colony	12.6 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1261064. 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.