Brant Lake, South Dakota

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Brant Lake City. It lies in ZIP code area 57016. The Survey maps it on the Wentworth quadrangle. 140 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,617 feet above sea level.

Brant Lake within Lake County

Population over time

2 figures

Brant Lake fell from 159 to 140 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

Year	People	Change
2010	159
2020	140	-19 (-12%)

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.

1955 USGS Sioux Falls quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Sioux Falls quadrangle1:250000
1968 USGS Wentworth quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Sioux Falls quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

13 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Brant Lake between 1999 and 2015, burning about 236 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	6
Debris and open burning	4
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Fireworks	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
9 September 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
6 July 2001	Fireworks	2.0 acres	Vermillion Volunteer Fire Department	NISSEN
4 July 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	US HIGHWAY 115 AND 281ST
13 July 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.5 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
23 June 2008	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
8 May 2009	Debris and open burning	42 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
10 May 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	CAVINESS
13 April 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	34 FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lake County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Brant Lake: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Lake 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
Chester	2.7 miles	7
Smiths Park	2.8 miles	7
Peninsula Park	3.6 miles	6
Wentworth	4.7 miles	7
Chautauqua	7.0 miles	6
Franklin	7.1 miles	6
Rustic Acres Colony	8.8 miles	6
Madison	10.4 miles	9

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.

Wikipedia article on Brant Lake	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5733292	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 2785127. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.