BlockBrentwood Colony, South Dakota
7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Saratoga Township. It lies in ZIP code area 57438. The Survey maps it on the Norbeck quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 7 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.
- 1951 USGS Clark Lake quadrangle1:24000
- 1954 USGS Aberdeen quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Aberdeen quadrangle1:250000
- 1985 USGS Gettysburg quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
In the county-history sources
24 words on this townshipHistory of Faulk County, South Dakota, Together with Biographical Sketches of Pioneers and Prominent Citizens, published 1909 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.
The chapter on Saratoga Township covers the township.
Read the chapter on Saratoga Township - 24 words.
Fires near this place
2 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Brentwood Colony in 2006, burning about 25 acres in total. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 1 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16 July 2006 | Natural | 5.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | not named |
| 25 May 2006 | Smoking | 20 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thunderbird Colony | 3.2 miles | 7 | |
| Norbeck | 5.2 miles | 7 | |
| Millard | 5.6 miles | 7 | |
| Burkmere | 7.2 miles | 7 | |
| Onaka | 9.2 miles | 9 | |
| Blumengard Colony | 9.4 miles | 7 | |
| Wecota | 9.8 miles | 8 | |
| Faulkton | 12.4 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 Q122550691 | 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 2724452. 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.