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Trail City, South Dakota

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the North Dewey unorganized territory. It lies in ZIP code area 57657. The Survey maps it on the Trail City quadrangle.

Trail City within Dewey 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.

Fires near this place

15 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Trail City between 1993 and 2017, burning about 66 acres in total. 2 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/undetermined8
Debris and open burning4
Natural2
Fireworks1

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
5 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresStanding Rock AgencyTRAILCTYVF
30 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreStanding Rock AgencyKELLER
28 August 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreStanding Rock AgencyTRLCTYCHRC
25 August 2012Natural5.0 acresStanding Rock AgencyLANDREAU
2 August 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreStanding Rock AgencyBOWL
17 August 1993Debris and open burning3.0 acresStanding Rock Agencynot named
2 July 2000Fireworksunder an acreStanding Rock AgencyCOTTOMNWOO
14 July 2000Natural2.0 acresStanding Rock AgencyMOBRIDGE

Every fire recorded in Dewey County

Storms near this place

18 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Trail City in 18 storm reports between 1994 and 2021: 11 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 1 flash flood. 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
August 2019HailTrail City-A severe thunderstorm with large hail and destructive winds left southeast Corson and continued southeast across eastern Dewey county destroying crop and grassland in its path. The storm then entered western Potter county.
August 2017Flash FloodTrail City-Two to three inches of heavy rain caused flash flooding of several parts of a road east of Trail City.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindTrail City-Sixty mph winds were estimated.
September 2014HailTrail City-Large hail and strong winds damaged some corn and beans.
August 2014Thunderstorm WindTrail City-Sixty mph winds were estimated by the public.
August 2013Thunderstorm WindTrail City-Sixty mph winds were estimated.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindTrail City-no account filed
August 2019Thunderstorm WindTrail City-no account filed
June 2018Thunderstorm WindTrail City-no account filed
August 2016Thunderstorm WindTrail City-no account filed
July 2016Thunderstorm WindTrail City-no account filed
July 2016Thunderstorm WindTrail City-no account filed
June 2007Thunderstorm WindTrail City-no account filed
July 2005HailTrail City-no account filed
August 2004HailTrail City-no account filed
July 2003HailTrail City-no account filed
August 2002Thunderstorm WindTrail City-no account filed
July 1994HailTrail City-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Dewey 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
Glencross10.5 miles7
Promise11.6 miles8
Yellowhorse Ford13.8 miles8
Whitehorse16.3 miles8
Virginia17.9 miles9
Timber Lake18.7 miles8
Moreau19.1 miles7
La Plant23.0 miles7

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1258590. 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.