Gros, South Dakota

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Warren Township. It lies in ZIP code area 57434. The Survey maps it on the Crocker SW quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Gros within Clark County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 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.

1953 USGS Milbank quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Milbank quadrangle1:250000
1973 USGS Crocker SW quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Webster quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

8 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Gros (historical) between 1999 and 2013, burning about 153 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	5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Debris and open burning	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
26 September 2003	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
22 September 2013	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Spink County	WAYNE WRIGHT
5 August 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
24 August 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	HUBER HAY
6 October 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	30 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	RAYMOND
4 October 2003	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
31 October 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	100 acres	Raymond Volunteer Fire Department	GRASS
11 October 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	10 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	GARY

Every fire recorded in Clark 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
Crocker	8.4 miles	7
Lily (historical)	10.9 miles	7
Julian (historical)	11.1 miles	8
Raymond	12.0 miles	8
Bradley	15.8 miles	7
Hillcrest Colony	17.4 miles	8
Clark	18.1 miles	8
Garden City	21.0 miles	8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1264209. 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.