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Gustave, South Dakota

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the South Harding unorganized territory. It lies in ZIP code area 57717. The Survey maps it on the Gustave quadrangle.

Gustave within Harding County

On record in Gustave

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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.

Fires near this place

8 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Gustave between 2000 and 2012, burning about 54 acres in total. 6 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
Natural6
Equipment and vehicle use1
Debris and open burning1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
13 August 2000Naturalunder an acreCamp Crook Volunteer Fire DepartmentBLAKES HAY STACK
1 August 2007Natural20 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named
4 July 2000Naturalunder an acreCamp Crook Volunteer Fire DepartmentMONCUR
31 July 2012Natural2.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionMOPPIN
20 July 2001Natural15 acresCamp Crook Volunteer Fire DepartmentJOHNSON
28 June 2002Natural2.0 acresCamp Crook Volunteer Fire DepartmentDAVIS
16 May 2009Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named
27 April 2008Debris and open burning15 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Harding 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 Gustave: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Uranium. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Twin No.2UraniumProspect

Every working recorded in Harding 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Harding11.1 miles7
Camp Crook18.6 miles8
Redig22.6 miles6
Buffalo30.9 miles6
Ladner39.9 miles6
Karinen45.6 miles6
Ludlow49.6 miles8
Reva50.6 miles8

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.

Wikipedia article on GustaveAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q24061519The 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 1261109. 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.