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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.

Tacoma Park within Brown County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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

17 since 2000

Regional 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/undetermined10
Debris and open burning3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Other causes1
Natural1

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
12 August 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionI90
27 July 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression248TH
4 May 2000Debris and open burning120 acresColumbia Volunteer Fire DepartmentBUNTROCK
28 May 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionTREASURE ISLAND
14 May 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionPHARIS
11 May 2004Natural1,200 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionRIVER BOTTOM
3 April 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionMANHART FIRE
29 April 2000Debris and open burning3.0 acresGroton Volunteer Fire DepartmentCHAD PRAY FARM

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Brown County

Storms near this place

9 since 1996

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
September 2013HailTacoma Park-Golf ball size hail caused some damage to vehicles.
June 1998Thunderstorm WindTacoma Park-Winds gusting to 70 mph brought many large tree branches down south of Tacoma Park.
July 2009FloodTacoma Park-no account filed
June 2009FloodTacoma Park-no account filed
August 2009FloodTacoma Park-no account filed
September 2009FloodTacoma Park-no account filed
May 2009FloodTacoma Park-no account filed
June 1998HailTacoma Park-no account filed
July 1996HailTacoma Park-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Brown 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
Plana3.7 miles10
Putney4.0 miles9
James5.6 miles11
Columbia5.9 miles10
Bath6.6 miles11
Bath Corner7.3 miles11
Ordway9.1 miles10
Prairiewood Village9.5 miles10

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 ParkAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q23709431The 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.