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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.

Thunder Hawk within Corson 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.

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 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 use8
Natural3
Debris and open burning3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Arson/incendiarism1

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
29 September 2000Arson/incendiarism1,000 acresMeadow Volunteer Fire DepartmentVAN BOYNTON
29 August 2004Equipment and vehicle use50 acresStanding Rock AgencyELLISON
12 August 2016Natural25 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionTHUNDERBACK
12 August 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionE BALE
12 August 2010Natural1.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionBALE FIRE 1
27 July 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceHALFACRE FIRE
21 July 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCorson CountyCORSON CO. 1
21 July 2005Natural2.0 acresStanding Rock AgencyLEMMONVFD

Every fire recorded in Corson County

Storms near this place

17 since 2007

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
March 2019FloodThunder Hawk-Many roads were flooded in the county and on the Standing Rock Indian Reservation.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindThunder Hawk-Estimated sixty-five mph winds downed many branches.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindThunder Hawk-Sixty mph winds were estimated.
September 2009HailThunder Hawk-Baseball size hail along with strong winds caused quite a bit of tree and crop damage to the area.
May 2008HailThunder Hawk-A large amount of pea to nickel hail piled up to nearly a foot in spots.
June 2019FloodThunder Hawk-no account filed
May 2019FloodThunder Hawk-no account filed
April 2019FloodThunder Hawk-no account filed
May 2018HailThunder Hawk-no account filed
May 2013FloodThunder Hawk-no account filed
July 2013HailThunder Hawk-no account filed
June 2012HailThunder Hawk-no account filed
September 2009HailThunder Hawk-no account filed
April 2009FloodThunder Hawk-no account filed
May 2008HailThunder Hawk-no account filed
July 2008HailThunder Hawk-no account filed
July 2007HailThunder Hawk-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Corson 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
Keldron8.8 miles7
Morristown13.3 miles7
Watauga22.9 miles7
Athboy25.3 miles7
McIntosh33.2 miles7
Black Horse35.0 miles7
Miscol46.7 miles7
Walker46.9 miles6

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 HawkAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q23709433The 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.