Strool, South Dakota

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Strool-Plateau Township. It lies in ZIP code area 57649. The Survey maps it on the Prairie City quadrangle.

Strool within Perkins 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.

1954 USGS Lemmon quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Lemmon quadrangle1:250000
1983 USGS Prairie City quadrangle1:24000
1984 USGS Lemmon quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

20 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Strool between 2001 and 2017, burning about 283 acres in total. 9 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	9
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Smoking	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
13 September 2017	Natural	1.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	DATE
30 August 2004	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
3 August 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
27 August 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	HUSMAN WHEAT STUBBLE
24 August 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	HAINE-CARR
20 August 2017	Natural	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	SCHECHER
10 August 2017	Natural	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	KOPREN
9 July 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	STEUER PLACE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Perkins 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
Prairie City	2.0 miles	6
Sorum	7.5 miles	7
Date	11.3 miles	7
Bison	18.3 miles	7
Zeona	22.0 miles	7
Lodgepole	22.3 miles	7
Imogene	25.3 miles	7
Ellingson (historical)	25.5 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 Strool	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q23709429	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 1258398. 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.