Wheeler, South Dakota

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Signal Township. It lies in ZIP code area 57369. It sits by Stony Point (historical). The Survey maps it on the Campbell Creek quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Wheeler within Charles Mix County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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 Mitchell quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1959 USGS Mitchell quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1964 USGS Campbell Creek quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Lake Andes quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
1990 USGS Mitchell quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

3 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Wheeler (historical) between 2000 and 2012, burning about 892 acres in total. None 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	1
Debris and open burning	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
1 July 2002	Equipment and vehicle use	800 acres	Yankton Agency	REE
28 February 2000	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Platte Volunteer Fire Department	00-11
31 January 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	90 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	LEEROBINSON

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Pickstown

Every fire recorded in Charles Mix 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
Geddes	10.2 miles	9
Bovee	12.0 miles	9
Platte	15.8 miles	9
Lake Andes	16.0 miles	11
Pickstown	17.6 miles	10
Dezera	18.1 miles	11
Lake View Colony	20.5 miles	10
Ravinia	22.1 miles	10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1265821. 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.