Grassland Colony, South Dakota

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Central McPherson unorganized territory. It lies in ZIP code area 57481. The Survey maps it on the Wetonka North quadrangle.

Grassland Colony within McPherson 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 Wetonka North quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Elm River quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

2 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Grassland Colony in 2017, burning about 17 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

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
15 July 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	15 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	ERDMANN GRASS FIRE
30 June 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	WALTMAN GRASS FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in McPherson 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
Wetonka	3.1 miles	8
Long Lake Colony	4.4 miles	8
Leola	8.8 miles	8
Spring Creek Colony	17.4 miles	8
Long Lake	25.6 miles	7
Hillsview	40.6 miles	7
Eureka	44.5 miles	7
Greenway	51.5 miles	7

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 Q122546578

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 2724461. 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.