Blumengard Colony, South Dakota

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Freedom Township. It lies in ZIP code area 57438. The Survey maps it on the Norbeck quadrangle.

Blumengard Colony within Faulk County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 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.

1952 USGS Norbeck quadrangle1:24000
1954 USGS Aberdeen quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1956 USGS Aberdeen quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS Gettysburg quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

Fires near this place

3 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Blumengard Colony between 1999 and 2006, burning about 50 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	2
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
23 August 2003	Equipment and vehicle use	10 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
4 April 2006	Debris and open burning	40 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
1 November 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Cresbard Volunteer Fire Department	DEAN NEIDERBAUM

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Faulk 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
Norbeck	4.7 miles	7
Wecota	5.6 miles	8
Thunderbird Colony	6.3 miles	7
Millard	6.7 miles	7
Brentwood Colony	9.4 miles	7
Evergreen Colony	10.6 miles	8
Cresbard	12.8 miles	8
Faulkton	14.6 miles	8

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 Q122547317

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 2724450. 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.