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Lakeport, South Dakota

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the West Yankton unorganized territory. It lies in ZIP code area 57063. The Survey maps it on the Tabor NE quadrangle. It stands 1,624 feet above sea level.

Lakeport within Yankton County

On record in Lakeport

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

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

29 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 29 fires within 5 miles of Lakeport between 1999 and 2017, burning about 893 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 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 burning9
Arson/incendiarism1
Natural1
Smoking1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
29 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionBERAN
28 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionLOST FIRE3
24 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionKOTALIK
10 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionNEDVED
7 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionKOZY STATION
25 July 2001Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresYankton Volunteer Fire DepartmentACORN
24 July 2017Natural3.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionZIMMERMAN HAY FIELD
2 July 2017Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionDRIVEWAY FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Yankton County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Lakeport: 8 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
E.Pechous Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
J. Kocer Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
J.J.Hale Sand 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
Oak Hills Addition3.8 miles10
Northshore Development4.0 miles10
Fairview Heights4.0 miles10
Utica6.7 miles9
Napa Junction7.0 miles9
Lesterville9.1 miles11
Yankton10.0 miles10
Jamesville14.3 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 Q72408357The 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 1260961. 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.