Clark Colony, South Dakota

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Capitola Township. It lies in ZIP code area 57258. The Survey maps it on the Fordham Dam quadrangle.

Clark Colony within Spink County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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.

1953 USGS Watertown quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Watertown quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1973 USGS Fordham Dam quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Watertown quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

2 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Clark Colony between 2005 and 2006, burning about 40 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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	30 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
13 April 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Spink 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
Hillside Colony	4.9 miles	10
Doland	9.7 miles	10
LaDelle	10.8 miles	10
Bloomfield	12.5 miles	10
Camrose Colony	16.0 miles	10
Glendale Colony	16.3 miles	10
Spink Colony	16.8 miles	11
Frankfort	18.2 miles	10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1254375. 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.