Camp Crook Complex
The Camp Crook Complex burned 1,000 acres in South Dakota, in 2000. It was discovered on September 17, 2000. The cause was recorded as natural.
- Size
- 1,000 acres
- Discovered
- September 17, 2000
- Cause
- Natural
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 6,920 acres. Point of origin as reported, 45.480, -103.966.
The record
- Reported final size
- 1,000 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 6,920 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 3,610 acres
- Discovered
- September 17, 2000
- Cause
- Natural
- State
- South Dakota
- Land ownership at origin
- State or Private
- Reporting unit
- Prairie City Volunteer Fire Department
- Agency
- Bureau of Land Management
- Unit
- MTNRC
- Part of
- Camp Crook Complex
- Other fire reports inside the burned area
- Latham, Harding
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 2000-SDSDS-004258
- MTBS fire identifier
- SD4553510387920000917
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Fire occurrence record
- SDVFD_2189
- Note on the perimeter
- BLM file. Unknown Source. Complex total acres was 11,840. May be missing infomration.
The three sizes are three measurements: the size the agency reported when the fire was out, the burned area MTBS drew from satellite imagery before and after, and the GIS area inside the final perimeter, unburned islands included. They rarely agree exactly.
Other large fires in South Dakota in 200012
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jasper Fire | 83,508 | Aug 24, 2000 | Human |
| Houck Ranch Fire | 35,000 | Sep 17, 2000 | Natural |
| Hayes Fire | 25,000 | Sep 17, 2000 | Natural |
| Trible Fire | 12,000 | Oct 21, 2000 | Human |
| Warbonnet Fire | 11,242 | Sep 5, 2000 | Natural |
| Decker Fire | 10,226 | Sep 17, 2000 | Natural |
| Geno H Fire | 9,431 | Oct 19, 2000 | Human |
| Pepper Cr Fire | 8,599 | Sep 2, 2000 | Natural |
| Flagpole Mountain Fire | 7,386 | Aug 11, 2000 | Natural |
| Lickiny Fire | 6,500 | Feb 8, 2000 | Human |
| No Flesh Fire | 5,700 | Sep 12, 2000 | Human |
| Ftmanuel Fire | 5,300 | Sep 19, 2000 | Human |
Nearby
Sources
Perimeters from the National Interagency Fire Center’s Interagency Fire Perimeter History, compiled from the Forest Service, BLM, BIA, Fish and Wildlife Service, National Park Service, the Alaska Interagency Fire Center and CAL FIRE. Burned areas and ignition dates from Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (MTBS), a program of the US Geological Survey and the USDA Forest Service. Fire reports from Short, Karen C. 2022, Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014], 6th Edition, Forest Service Research Data Archive, doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6. Records before 2014 were joined by this site: a fire report to the burned area its MTBS identifier names, a perimeter to the burned area it lies in when the names or the sizes agree.