Thunderbird Colony, South Dakota

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Enterprise Township. It lies in ZIP code area 57438. The Survey maps it on the Clark Lake quadrangle.

Thunderbird Colony within Faulk County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 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.

1951 USGS Clark Lake quadrangle1:24000
1954 USGS Aberdeen quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1956 USGS Aberdeen quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS Gettysburg quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

Fires near this place

4 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Thunderbird Colony between 1999 and 2006, burning about 35 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
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Natural	1
Smoking	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
23 August 2003	Equipment and vehicle use	10 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
16 July 2006	Natural	5.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
25 May 2006	Smoking	20 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
1 November 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Cresbard Volunteer Fire Department	DEAN NEIDERBAUM

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Faulk 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
Norbeck	2.9 miles	7
Brentwood Colony	3.2 miles	7
Millard	4.7 miles	7
Blumengard Colony	6.3 miles	7
Wecota	8.0 miles	8
Burkmere	10.1 miles	7
Onaka	10.6 miles	9
Evergreen Colony	12.6 miles	8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2724515. 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.