Snoma, South Dakota

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the West Butte unorganized territory. It lies in ZIP code area 57717. The Survey maps it on the Fruitdale quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Snoma within Butte County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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.

1905 USGS Saint Onge quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1907 USGS Belle Fourche quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1953 USGS Rapid City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1954 USGS Fruitdale quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1954 USGS Saint Onge quadrangle1:62500
1957 USGS Rapid City quadrangle1:250000
1983 USGS Belle Fourche quadrangle1:100000

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 Snoma (historical) between 2000 and 2020, burning about 1,301 acres in total. 7 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
Natural	7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Debris and open burning	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
3 August 2006	Natural	200 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
3 August 2006	Natural	40 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
13 August 2000	Natural	under an acre	Edgemont Volunteer Fire Department	DEAD HORSE CANYON
12 August 2000	Natural	950 acres	Edgemont Volunteer Fire Department	CHILSON MT 2
11 August 2000	Natural	under an acre	Edgemont Volunteer Fire Department	FLINT HILL 2
1 August 2000	Natural	2.0 acres	Edgemont Volunteer Fire Department	SILO
1 July 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	8.4 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	DAKOTA
28 June 2020	Natural	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	REPEAT 2

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Butte 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
Fruitdale	1.4 miles	13
Nisland	7.5 miles	12
Belle Fourche	8.6 miles	14
Arpan	9.9 miles	9
Jolly Dump	10.1 miles	15
Newell	15.1 miles	12
Vale	15.5 miles	13
Empire	19.8 miles	13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1782056. 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.