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Jamesville Colony, South Dakota

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Jamesville Township. It lies in ZIP code area 57067. The Survey maps it on the Jamesville quadrangle.

Jamesville Colony within Yankton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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.

Fires near this place

24 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 24 fires within 5 miles of Jamesville Colony between 1999 and 2019, burning about 932 acres in total. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Debris and open burning5
Smoking1
Natural1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Fireworks1

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
3 August 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression14ARF26
21 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined35 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionGOEKEN FIRE
18 August 2019Naturalunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression2 MILE BALE FIRE
6 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined84 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionKEEPEN FIRE
5 July 2008Fireworksunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named
25 July 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionJENSON
24 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined21 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionGALL FIRE 2
16 July 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionFORTUNE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Yankton County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Jamesville Colony: 5 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Hauck Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Nels Nelson Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Peterson Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Sigel Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Yankton 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
Jamesville0.1 miles11
Vedin Corner4.7 miles11
Midway4.7 miles12
Lesterville7.4 miles11
Utica8.5 miles9
Mayfield8.8 miles11
Pearsons Corner9.8 miles11
Napa Junction11.3 miles9

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 Q122563475The 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 2724464. 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.