Wicksville, South Dakota

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the East Central Pennington unorganized territory. It lies in ZIP code area 57767. The Survey maps it on the Owanka quadrangle.

Wicksville within Pennington County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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.

1953 USGS Rapid City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1954 USGS Owanka quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Rapid City quadrangle1:250000
1984 USGS New Underwood quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

11 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Wicksville between 2000 and 2017, burning about 156 acres in total. 4 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	5
Natural	4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
Debris and open burning	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
30 September 2015	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	HEY BALE FIRE
7 August 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	14 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
7 August 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	13 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
2 August 2000	Natural	60 acres	Folsom Volunteer Fire Department	EDOFF
8 July 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	25 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	WICKSVILLE FIRE
8 July 2017	Natural	15 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	169 AVE
29 July 2003	Natural	2.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
11 July 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	22 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	MM92

Every fire recorded in Pennington County

Storms near this place

9 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wicksville in 9 storm reports between 2002 and 2016: 5 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
July 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Wicksville	$20,000	Several power poles werew snapped and a quonset hut was blown over.
June 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Wicksville	-	None.
June 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Wicksville	-	no account filed
June 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Wicksville	-	no account filed
July 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Wicksville	-	no account filed
June 2014	Hail	Wicksville	-	no account filed
June 2009	Hail	Wicksville	-	no account filed
July 2005	Hail	Wicksville	-	no account filed
August 2002	Hail	Wicksville	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Pennington 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
Owanka	5.1 miles	9
Wasta	7.8 miles	8
Mawl Springs	11.3 miles	8
New Underwood	13.1 miles	8
Creston	14.1 miles	8
Farmingdale	18.3 miles	8
Wall	19.7 miles	8
Scenic	21.9 miles	10

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 Q122549822

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 1258993. 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.