Thunder Hawk, South Dakota
6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Lemmon unorganized territory. It lies in ZIP code area 57638. It stands on Thunder Hawk Butte. The Survey maps it on the Thunder Hawk quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 6 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.
- 1953 USGS McIntosh quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS McIntosh quadrangle1:250000
- 1972 USGS Thunder Hawk quadrangle1:24000
- 1980 USGS McIntosh quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
17 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Thunder Hawk between 2000 and 2018, burning about 1,268 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| Equipment and vehicle use | 8 |
| Natural | 3 |
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29 September 2000 | Arson/incendiarism | 1,000 acres | Meadow Volunteer Fire Department | VAN BOYNTON |
| 29 August 2004 | Equipment and vehicle use | 50 acres | Standing Rock Agency | ELLISON |
| 12 August 2016 | Natural | 25 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | THUNDERBACK |
| 12 August 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | E BALE |
| 12 August 2010 | Natural | 1.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | BALE FIRE 1 |
| 27 July 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | North Dakota State Forest Service | HALFACRE FIRE |
| 21 July 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Corson County | CORSON CO. 1 |
| 21 July 2005 | Natural | 2.0 acres | Standing Rock Agency | LEMMONVFD |
Storms near this place
17 since 2007Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Thunder Hawk in 17 storm reports between 2007 and 2019: 9 hail, 6 flood, 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2019 | Flood | Thunder Hawk | - | Many roads were flooded in the county and on the Standing Rock Indian Reservation. |
| July 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Thunder Hawk | - | Estimated sixty-five mph winds downed many branches. |
| July 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Thunder Hawk | - | Sixty mph winds were estimated. |
| September 2009 | Hail | Thunder Hawk | - | Baseball size hail along with strong winds caused quite a bit of tree and crop damage to the area. |
| May 2008 | Hail | Thunder Hawk | - | A large amount of pea to nickel hail piled up to nearly a foot in spots. |
| June 2019 | Flood | Thunder Hawk | - | no account filed |
| May 2019 | Flood | Thunder Hawk | - | no account filed |
| April 2019 | Flood | Thunder Hawk | - | no account filed |
| May 2018 | Hail | Thunder Hawk | - | no account filed |
| May 2013 | Flood | Thunder Hawk | - | no account filed |
| July 2013 | Hail | Thunder Hawk | - | no account filed |
| June 2012 | Hail | Thunder Hawk | - | no account filed |
| September 2009 | Hail | Thunder Hawk | - | no account filed |
| April 2009 | Flood | Thunder Hawk | - | no account filed |
| May 2008 | Hail | Thunder Hawk | - | no account filed |
| July 2008 | Hail | Thunder Hawk | - | no account filed |
| July 2007 | Hail | Thunder Hawk | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Keldron | 8.8 miles | 7 | |
| Morristown | 13.3 miles | 7 | |
| Watauga | 22.9 miles | 7 | |
| Athboy | 25.3 miles | 7 | |
| McIntosh | 33.2 miles | 7 | |
| Black Horse | 35.0 miles | 7 | |
| Miscol | 46.7 miles | 7 | |
| Walker | 46.9 miles | 6 |
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 Thunder Hawk | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q23709433 | 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 1258545. 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.



