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James Valley Junction, South Dakota

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Theresa Township. It lies in ZIP code area 57350. The Survey maps it on the Broadland quadrangle.

James Valley Junction within Beadle County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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

51 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 51 fires within 5 miles of James Valley Junction between 1999 and 2020, burning about 2,198 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 4 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined29
Debris and open burning9
Arson/incendiarism4
Natural3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Other causes1

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
5 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionBAUMAN
3 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionTSSCHETTER
28 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined40 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionFANGER
14 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreHuron Wetland Management DistrictWEAVERFIRE
10 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionNWPS
10 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionKUHNS
29 August 2020Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionHWY 14
1 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionKLEINSAUSSER, BRENT

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Beadle 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 James Valley Junction: 1 past producer. 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Beadle County Highway PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Beadle 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
Huron4.5 miles10
Morningside5.8 miles10
Broadland8.2 miles9
Virgil9.2 miles9
Wolsey9.7 miles9
Riverside Colony11.0 miles10
Sheffield12.0 miles9
Huron Colony13.5 miles11

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 Q122552702The 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 1261023. 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.