BlockWolf Creek, South Dakota
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Wolf Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 57029. It stands on Wolf Creek. The Survey maps it on the Wolf Creek quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 11 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1898 USGS Olivet quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1955 USGS Sioux Falls quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Wolf Creek quadrangle1:24000
- 1958 USGS Sioux Falls quadrangle1:250000
- 1985 USGS Freeman quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
3 since 2010Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Wolf Creek between 2010 and 2013, burning about 52 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22 September 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Yankton County | AUCH |
| 15 April 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 50 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | DENNIS GROEN |
| 18 December 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | CHESTER ROEN |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
6 since 2010Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wolf Creek in 6 storm reports between 2010 and 2026: 3 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wolf Creek | - | Thunderstorm wind gust measured by a roof-mounted weather station, with a peak at 2143 CST. |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wolf Creek | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts as high as 66 mph were measured by a personal weather station 5 miles southeast of Clayton. |
| July 2021 | Hail | Wolf Creek | - | Hail was mostly dime size, but some stones were as large as quarters. |
| June 2010 | Tornado (EF0) | Wolf Creek | - | A brief tornado caused no reported damage. |
| April 2026 | Hail | Wolf Creek | - | no account filed |
| August 2021 | Hail | Wolf Creek | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tschetter Colony | 3.7 miles | 11 | |
| Clayton | 6.9 miles | 12 | |
| Menno | 7.8 miles | 11 | |
| Olivet | 7.9 miles | 12 | |
| Freeman | 9.9 miles | 11 | |
| Milltown | 10.8 miles | 11 | |
| Maxwell Colony | 11.4 miles | 12 | |
| Old Elm Spring Colony | 13.8 miles | 11 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1265713. 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.