Hillcrest Colony, South Dakota

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Mount Pleasant Township. It lies in ZIP code area 57236. The Survey maps it on the Clark North quadrangle. 94 people lived here at the 2020 count.

Hillcrest Colony within Clark County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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.

1953 USGS Watertown quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Watertown quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1973 USGS Clark North quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Watertown quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

5 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Hillcrest Colony between 2001 and 2020, burning about 13 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
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Debris and open burning	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
9 September 2001	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Bradley Volunteer Fire Department	CRABTREE
12 August 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
6 July 2020	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	LYNDA STERN CONTROLLED
6 July 2020	Railroad operations and maintenance	1.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	EVAN FLETCHER
16 April 2020	Debris and open burning	10 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	JAKE HANSEN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Garden City

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
Garden City	4.8 miles	8
Silver Lake Colony	5.6 miles	8
Clark	5.8 miles	8
Julian (historical)	6.3 miles	8
Elrod	6.6 miles	8
Lily (historical)	9.3 miles	7
Bradley	10.1 miles	7
Crocker	12.5 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.

Wikipedia article on Hillcrest Colony	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q108684981	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 2724462. 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.