Golden View Colony, South Dakota

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Salem Township. It lies in ZIP code area 57058. The Survey maps it on the Salem quadrangle.

Golden View Colony within McCook County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 6 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 Sioux Falls quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Sioux Falls quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Salem quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Salem quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

31 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 31 fires within 5 miles of Golden View Colony between 2001 and 2020, burning about 110 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 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	15
Debris and open burning	8
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Arson/incendiarism	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Natural	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
20 September 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	3.2 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
2 September 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	I90 CAMPER
6 August 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	McCook County	BAILEY
6 August 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	TUSCHEN M&W
3 August 2018	Natural	1.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	ERNSTER CRP
24 August 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	SCHOENEVALD
4 July 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Salem Volunteer Fire Department	TOWNSHIP ROAD DITCH
24 July 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	I90 #1

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in McCook 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 Golden View Colony: 3 producers. All of them still produce. 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
Brown Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Dexter Mobige Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Fendrich Sand & Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in McCook 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
Salem	3.7 miles	6
Unityville	7.6 miles	6
Spencer	8.3 miles	11
Bridgewater	10.2 miles	11
Canistota	10.3 miles	6
Stanley Corner	10.6 miles	6
Montrose	13.8 miles	6
Rumpus Ridge	15.5 miles	6

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 Q122591028

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 2724459. 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.