BlockCollins Colony, South Dakota
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Collins Township. It lies in ZIP code area 57353. The Survey maps it on the Willow Lake SW quadrangle. 92 people lived here at the 2020 count.
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 8 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.
- 1953 USGS Watertown quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Watertown quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1973 USGS Willow Lake SW quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Watertown quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
4 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Collins Colony between 2000 and 2020, burning about 5 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14 June 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | IROQUOIS |
| 14 June 2003 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | not named |
| 22 May 2020 | Recreation and ceremony | 3.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | DISRUD |
| 5 March 2000 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Desmet Volunteer Fire Department | #656 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Melham | 0.8 miles | 8 | |
| Willow Lake | 6.3 miles | 8 | |
| Pitrodie (historical) | 8.1 miles | 8 | |
| Success (historical) | 8.7 miles | 8 | |
| Mayfield Colony | 11.9 miles | 8 | |
| Carpenter | 13.1 miles | 8 | |
| Carlton (historical) | 13.7 miles | 8 | |
| Vienna | 14.9 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.
| Wikipedia article on Collins Colony | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q108685007 | 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 2726144. 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.