Grosse, South Dakota

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 1990. It stands in West Point Township. It lies in ZIP code area 57325. The Survey maps it on the Bedashosha Lake quadrangle.

Grosse within Brule County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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.

1935 USGS Chamberlain quadrangle1:62500
1939 USGS Chamberlain quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1955 USGS Mitchell quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1959 USGS Mitchell quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1974 USGS Bedashosha Lake quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Chamberlain quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1990 USGS Mitchell quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

149 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 149 fires within 5 miles of Grosse between 1992 and 2020, burning about 900 acres in total. 14 started naturally. 6 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	66
Misuse of fire by a minor	26
Equipment and vehicle use	18
Natural	14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8
Arson/incendiarism	6
Fireworks	5
Smoking	3
Other causes	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
5 September 1994	Misuse of fire by a minor	1.3 acres	Crow Creek Agency	PETERSON
30 September 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Crow Creek Agency	HILLSIDE
3 September 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Crow Creek Agency	JUNKYARD
29 September 2001	Debris and open burning	1.4 acres	Crow Creek Agency	CROWCREEK
27 September 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	2.5 acres	Crow Creek Agency	LADYBUG
24 September 2000	Debris and open burning	6.2 acres	Crow Creek Agency	C.C.DUMP
23 September 2016	Misuse of fire by a minor	7.0 acres	Crow Creek Agency	OAKS
23 September 2003	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Crow Creek Agency	RED HAIL

Every fire recorded in Brule County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Grosse: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. 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
	Bedashosha Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
	Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Brule 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
Chamberlain	8.4 miles	11
Pukwana	11.7 miles	10
Lyonville	17.1 miles	10
Grandview	19.6 miles	11
Kimball	21.4 miles	8
Ola	22.9 miles	8
Eagle	26.6 miles	8
Grass Ranch Colony	29.0 miles	8

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 Q122541615

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 1261011. 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.