Wakpamani, South Dakota

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the East Oglala Lakota unorganized territory. It lies in ZIP code area 57716. The Survey maps it on the Wakpamani quadrangle.

Wakpamani within Oglala Lakota County

Topographic sheets covering this place

3 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.

1955 USGS Hot Springs quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1981 USGS Wakpamani quadrangle1:25000, 2 printings
1985 USGS Pine Ridge quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

64 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 64 fires within 5 miles of Wakpamani between 1993 and 2020, burning about 1,233 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 3 were 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
Debris and open burning	17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	13
Equipment and vehicle use	10
Other causes	7
Natural	6
Arson/incendiarism	3
Fireworks	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Smoking	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
8 September 2002	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Pine Ridge Agency	SOAP
8 September 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	150 acres	Martin Volunteer Fire Department	HANAMAN
8 September 1993	Other causes	under an acre	Pine Ridge Agency	H OF H
6 September 2003	Other causes	under an acre	Pine Ridge Agency	15 MIN
5 September 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Pine Ridge Agency	LITTLE CHEVY
5 September 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
30 September 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	28 acres	Pine Ridge Agency	CORN
30 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Pine Ridge Agency	124

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Batesland

Every fire recorded in Oglala Lakota 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
Batesland	2.5 miles	8
Denby	10.9 miles	8
Wounded Knee	11.6 miles	8
Porcupine	12.7 miles	8
Evergreen	17.3 miles	8
Manderson	18.8 miles	8
Kyle	21.0 miles	8
Pine Ridge	22.6 miles	9

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.

Wikidata item Q122562145

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 1266655. 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.