Claremont Colony, South Dakota

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Dempster Township. It lies in ZIP code area 57223. The Survey maps it on the Dempster quadrangle.

Claremont Colony within Hamlin County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 9 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.

1953 USGS Watertown quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Watertown quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1969 USGS Dempster quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1985 USGS Clear Lake quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

6 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Claremont Colony between 2007 and 2016, burning about 22 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	2
Smoking	2

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
12 July 2016	Smoking	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	I-29 MM 164
22 April 2008	Smoking	1.5 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
2 November 2007	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
29 October 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	GASRVER
16 October 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	10 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	MENINGRVA 2
11 October 2011	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	MENINGRVA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hamlin County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Claremont Colony: 3 past producers. 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.

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

Every working recorded in Hamlin 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
Castlewood	4.2 miles	8
Dempster	5.6 miles	9
Poinsett Colony	5.6 miles	9
Kones Corner	8.3 miles	8
Stone Bridge	9.5 miles	8
Estelline	9.9 miles	8
Alsville	12.7 miles	8
Hayti	13.9 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 Q122558263

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 2724454. 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.