Deerfield Colony, South Dakota

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Belle Township. It lies in ZIP code area 57451. The Survey maps it on the Leola SW quadrangle.

Deerfield Colony within Edmunds 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.

1899 USGS Ellendale quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1954 USGS Aberdeen quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1956 USGS Aberdeen quadrangle1:250000
1970 USGS Leola SW quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Elm River quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

3 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Deerfield Colony between 2013 and 2017, burning about 41 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
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
6 July 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	BURGOD
15 July 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	15 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	ERDMANN GRASS FIRE
13 May 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	25 acres	Edmunds County	JR HAMMRICH

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Plainview Colony

Every fire recorded in Edmunds 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
Plainview Colony	5.5 miles	7
Craven Corner	9.8 miles	8
Craven	10.2 miles	8
Ipswich	12.0 miles	7
Mina	13.2 miles	8
Beebe	18.3 miles	7
Powell	21.8 miles	7
Roscoe	25.0 miles	7

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2724456. 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.