Weta, South Dakota

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Weta Township. It lies in ZIP code area 57543. The Survey maps it on the Weta quadrangle.

Weta within Jackson 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.

1950 USGS Weta quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1955 USGS Martin quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Martin quadrangle1:250000
1980 USGS Kadoka quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

7 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Weta between 2002 and 2018, burning about 520 acres in total. 3 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
Natural	3
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Fireworks	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
3 August 2014	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	MM 140
17 August 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	3.5 acres	Nebraska National Forest	TRAILER
26 July 2006	Natural	480 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
26 July 2006	Natural	28 acres	Nebraska National Forest	FITE
25 July 2002	Fireworks	6.4 acres	Nebraska National Forest	CHAMBERLAIN PASS
1 July 2007	Natural	1.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
1 November 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	MM 140

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Sevenmile Corner

Every fire recorded in Jackson 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
Sevenmile Corner	5.2 miles	6
Cactus Flat	10.3 miles	6
Kadoka Junction	11.1 miles	6
Kadoka	11.7 miles	6
Philip Junction	13.5 miles	6
Wanblee	14.5 miles	7
Interior	14.5 miles	6
Cottonwood	16.6 miles	6

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1262682. 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.