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Kingsburg, South Dakota

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Southwest Bon Homme unorganized territory. It lies in ZIP code area 57066. The Survey maps it on the Kingsburg quadrangle.

Kingsburg within Bon Homme 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

27 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 27 fires within 5 miles of Kingsburg between 1999 and 2020, burning about 372 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined16
Debris and open burning7
Misuse of fire by a minor2
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
26 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionTJEEDSMA
4 July 2000Fireworks1.1 acresSpringfield Volunteer Fire DepartmentFIREWORK
3 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionBLUFF DRIVE
16 July 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression8 MILE DITCH FIRE
12 July 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named
12 July 2000Debris and open burningunder an acreSpringfield Volunteer Fire DepartmentMILNEY
11 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionCOLONY
29 June 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionLAGOON FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bon Homme County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 13 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Kingsburg: 12 past producers, 1 producer. 1 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
E.E.Grimme Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gustav Boese Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Harold Grimme Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
J.V. Plihal Sand Pit--Area BSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
J.V.Plihal Sand Pit--Area ASand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Jim Mullers PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
John Nagel Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
L.G.Hopkins Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Martin Johnson Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Mrs.Ervin Grimme Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Bon Homme County

Storms near this place

3 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kingsburg in 3 storm reports between 2008 and 2015: 2 hail, 1 tornado. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2008Tornado (EF0)Kingsburg-A brief tornado caused no reported damage.
September 2015HailKingsburg-no account filed
August 2011HailKingsburg-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Bon Homme 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
Springfield4.5 miles10
Perkins5.4 miles11
Tyndall6.5 miles9
Avon9.2 miles9
Running Water10.4 miles10
Bon Homme Colony12.4 miles9
Tabor14.6 miles9
Vodnany (historical)15.1 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.

Wikipedia article on KingsburgAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q23709388The 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 1261027. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.