Cedar Grove Colony, South Dakota

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Torrey Lake Township. It lies in ZIP code area 57369. The Survey maps it on the Cedar Grove Colony quadrangle.

Cedar Grove Colony within Brule County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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 Mitchell quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1959 USGS Mitchell quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1979 USGS Cedar Grove Colony quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Mitchell quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1990 USGS Mitchell quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

15 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Cedar Grove Colony between 2000 and 2016, burning about 320 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
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Debris and open burning	4

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
29 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	25 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	CEDAR GROVE 11-024
24 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	TOREY LAKE 11-025
30 July 2002	Equipment and vehicle use	50 acres	Platte Volunteer Fire Department	02-021 STEVE OLSON
28 July 2002	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Platte Volunteer Fire Department	02-023
26 July 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	BRIGGS
17 July 2000	Equipment and vehicle use	10 acres	Platte Volunteer Fire Department	00-24
13 July 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
12 July 2003	Equipment and vehicle use	15 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named

Every fire recorded in Brule 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
Grass Ranch Colony	8.9 miles	8
Eagle	15.3 miles	8
Kimball	16.9 miles	8
Bijou Hills	18.1 miles	8
Ola	21.9 miles	8
Lyonville	25.5 miles	10
Pukwana	26.2 miles	10
Grandview	27.1 miles	11

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 Cedar Grove Colony	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q108684977	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 1254289. 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.