Greenfield, South Dakota

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Prairie Center Township. It lies in ZIP code area 57010. The Survey maps it on the Alsen quadrangle.

Greenfield within Clay County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 19 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.

1898 USGS Elk Point quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1901 USGS Elk Point quadrangle1:125000
1907 USGS Elk Point quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
1955 USGS Sioux City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1958 USGS Sioux City quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Sioux City quadrangle1:250000
1969 USGS Alsen quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Sioux City North quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

24 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 24 fires within 5 miles of Greenfield between 1992 and 2020, burning about 80 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 were 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	10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Arson/incendiarism	2
Smoking	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
8 July 2002	Smoking	under an acre	Vermillion Volunteer Fire Department	GREENFIELD
8 July 2002	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Vermillion Volunteer Fire Department	SAMMELSON
4 July 2014	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	RICHLAND
31 July 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Woonsocket Volunteer Fire Department	MIKE WHITE
1 May 2008	Smoking	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
6 April 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	GRASS FIRE
21 April 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	MM35
13 April 2008	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clay County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Greenfield: 1 producer. 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.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Seburn Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Clay 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
Clay Point	3.7 miles	18
Marshalltown (historical)	5.2 miles	18
Hub City	5.9 miles	18
Bloomingdale	6.6 miles	18
Dalesburg	7.3 miles	18
Vermillion	8.3 miles	20
Burbank	9.4 miles	19
Westreville	9.9 miles	9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1261009. 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.