BlockLake View Colony, South Dakota
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Howard Township. It lies in ZIP code area 57356. The Survey maps it on the Ravinia quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 10 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1955 USGS Mitchell quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1959 USGS Mitchell quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1964 USGS Ravinia quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Lake Andes quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
- 1990 USGS Mitchell quadrangle1:250000
Fires near this place
33 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 33 fires within 5 miles of Lake View Colony between 1999 and 2018, burning about 566 acres in total. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 12 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 12 |
| Fireworks | 2 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Other causes | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 September 1999 | Debris and open burning | 15 acres | Ravinia Volunteer Fire Department | BILL SPECHT |
| 14 September 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 20 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | not named |
| 28 July 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | not named |
| 28 July 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 9.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | not named |
| 28 July 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 14 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | not named |
| 17 July 2006 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | not named |
| 29 June 2002 | Fireworks | 10 acres | Yankton Agency | BRYON2 |
| 27 June 2007 | Fireworks | 1.0 acres | Yankton Agency | A0807002 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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.
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 Q122560998 | 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 2724465. 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.