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Stoneville, South Dakota

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Upper Red Owl Township. It lies in ZIP code area 57787. The Survey maps it on the Stoneville quadrangle. It stands 2,933 feet above sea level.

Stoneville within Meade County

On record in Stoneville

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 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

18 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Stoneville between 1999 and 2020, burning about 3,700 acres in total. 13 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
Natural13
Debris and open burning3
Equipment and vehicle use1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
5 September 2005Natural10 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named
5 September 2000Natural1.0 acresEnning Volunteer Fire DepartmentYOUNG
3 August 2006Natural2,500 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named
3 August 2006Natural750 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named
3 August 2006Natural300 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named
23 August 2020Natural60 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionCAMMACK BROS.
19 August 2010Debris and open burning5.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionKEFFELER
13 August 2012Naturalunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionBRETT WILCOX

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Meade County

Storms near this place

18 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Stoneville in 18 storm reports between 1998 and 2022: 12 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
July 2003Thunderstorm WindStoneville$25,000Strong winds ripped an 80 foot section off a barn roof. Eight foot high poles were also ripped from the ground.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindStoneville-Wind gusts were estimated at 60 mph.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindStoneville-Wind gusts were estimated at 60 mph.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindStoneville-Six inch diameter tree branches were broken off trees onto Stoneville Road.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindStoneville-Wind gusts were estimated at 60 mph.
May 2014HailStoneville-Three to four inches of rain also fell with the large hail.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindStoneville-Wind gusts were estimated at 70 mph.
May 2022HailStoneville-no account filed
August 2017HailStoneville-no account filed
July 2015HailStoneville-no account filed
July 2015HailStoneville-no account filed
May 2013HailStoneville-no account filed
September 2013HailStoneville-no account filed
June 2008HailStoneville-no account filed
June 2007HailStoneville-no account filed
July 2007HailStoneville-no account filed
July 2007HailStoneville-no account filed
May 1998HailStoneville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Meade 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
Redowl5.9 miles7
Fairpoint7.6 miles7
Enning11.9 miles8
Union Center11.9 miles7
Clough13.3 miles8
White Owl15.4 miles7
Opal15.4 miles7
Sulphur16.9 miles7

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 StonevilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q23709428The 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 1261070. 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.