Stamford, South Dakota

5 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Northeast Jackson unorganized territory. It lies in ZIP code area 57521. The Survey maps it on the Stamford quadrangle.

Stamford within Jackson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 5 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.

1955 USGS Martin quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Martin quadrangle1:250000
1972 USGS Stamford quadrangle1:24000
1980 USGS Kadoka quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

6 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Stamford between 1995 and 2006, burning about 294 acres in total. 4 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	4
Equipment and vehicle use	2

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
9 August 2006	Natural	6.4 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
7 August 2006	Natural	20 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
23 August 2003	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
25 July 2001	Natural	2.0 acres	Murdo Volunteer Fire Department	PERAULT
16 July 2002	Equipment and vehicle use	250 acres	Murdo Volunteer Fire Department	PROPANE
11 March 1995	Natural	15 acres	Rosebud Agency	44-32

Every fire recorded in Jackson 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
Belvidere	10.6 miles	6
Kadoka	22.7 miles	6
Kadoka Junction	23.3 miles	6
Sevenmile Corner	30.6 miles	6
Philip Junction	30.7 miles	6
Weta	34.3 miles	6
Long Valley	36.8 miles	5
Wanblee	37.7 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 Stamford	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7597373	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 1261069. 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.