Tacoma Park, South Dakota
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Cambria Township. It lies in ZIP code area 57433. It lies near Putney Slough. The Survey maps it on the Putney quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 9 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1896 USGS Columbia quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
- 1952 USGS Putney quadrangle1:24000
- 1954 USGS Aberdeen quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Aberdeen quadrangle1:250000
- 1985 USGS Elm River quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
17 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Tacoma Park between 2000 and 2017, burning about 7,154 acres in total. 1 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 | 10 |
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Other causes | 1 |
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 August 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 15 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | I90 |
| 27 July 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 8.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | 248TH |
| 4 May 2000 | Debris and open burning | 120 acres | Columbia Volunteer Fire Department | BUNTROCK |
| 28 May 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | TREASURE ISLAND |
| 14 May 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | PHARIS |
| 11 May 2004 | Natural | 1,200 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | RIVER BOTTOM |
| 3 April 2015 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | MANHART FIRE |
| 29 April 2000 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Groton Volunteer Fire Department | CHAD PRAY FARM |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
9 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tacoma Park in 9 storm reports between 1996 and 2013: 5 flood, 3 hail, 1 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2013 | Hail | Tacoma Park | - | Golf ball size hail caused some damage to vehicles. |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tacoma Park | - | Winds gusting to 70 mph brought many large tree branches down south of Tacoma Park. |
| July 2009 | Flood | Tacoma Park | - | no account filed |
| June 2009 | Flood | Tacoma Park | - | no account filed |
| August 2009 | Flood | Tacoma Park | - | no account filed |
| September 2009 | Flood | Tacoma Park | - | no account filed |
| May 2009 | Flood | Tacoma Park | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Tacoma Park | - | no account filed |
| July 1996 | Hail | Tacoma Park | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Plana | 3.7 miles | 10 | |
| Putney | 4.0 miles | 9 | |
| James | 5.6 miles | 11 | |
| Columbia | 5.9 miles | 10 | |
| Bath | 6.6 miles | 11 | |
| Bath Corner | 7.3 miles | 11 | |
| Ordway | 9.1 miles | 10 | |
| Prairiewood Village | 9.5 miles | 10 |
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 Tacoma Park | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q23709431 | 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 1265391. 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.




