Long Lake Colony, South Dakota

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Central McPherson unorganized territory. It lies in ZIP code area 57481. The Survey maps it on the Wetonka South quadrangle. 8 people lived here at the 2020 count.

Long Lake Colony within McPherson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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.

1899 USGS Ellendale quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1954 USGS Aberdeen quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1956 USGS Aberdeen quadrangle1:250000
1970 USGS Wetonka South quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Elm River quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

3 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Long Lake Colony between 2015 and 2017, burning about 21 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
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Debris and open burning	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
6 July 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	BURGOD
15 July 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	15 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	ERDMANN GRASS FIRE
21 March 2016	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	KREUGER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in McPherson County

Storms near this place

7 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Long Lake Colony in 7 storm reports between 2008 and 2023: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 tornado, 1 flood. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
August 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Long Lake Colony	-	School playground equipment damaged.
July 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Long Lake Colony	-	Significant damage occurred to the Long Lake Hutterite Colony. Witnesses said two rounds of wind caused damage to the property. Southerly storm inflow winds ripped multiple roof panels off four separate turkey barns. Debris was spread to the west northwest. Additional damage was done to a feed mill and a machine shed was completely destroyed. Debris from these buildings was tossed from north northwest to south southeast. Other grain bin damage also occurred. The total path length was about a half mile or slightly more.
July 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Long Lake Colony	-	Estimated ninety mph winds removed panels from a turkey barn roof and damaged a feed mill. A fire truck was completely destroyed.
May 2010	Tornado (EF2)	Long Lake Colony	-	A tornado entered southeast Mcpherson county from northeast Edmunds county. The tornado struck a farm along State Highway 45 where a calving shed was completely destroyed with large sections of the roof blown over 100 yards. The tornado then caused moderate damage to a barn with one collapsed wall. Multiple softwood and hardwood trees were uprooted and many power poles were completely snapped near the base. The tornado tore the roof off a turkey barn at the Long Lake Colony. Several Wetonka homes also sustained minor roof damage. The wind speeds were estimated between 111 and 120 mph. The tornado then moved into western Brown county and dissipated.
July 2020	Flood	Long Lake Colony	-	no account filed
July 2009	Hail	Long Lake Colony	-	no account filed
July 2008	Hail	Long Lake Colony	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in McPherson 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Wetonka	3.0 miles	8
Grassland Colony	4.4 miles	8
Leola	10.3 miles	8
Spring Creek Colony	21.1 miles	8
Long Lake	26.7 miles	7
Hillsview	39.4 miles	7
Eureka	43.9 miles	7
Greenway	51.7 miles	7

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 Long Lake Colony	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q108803572	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 1256236. 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.

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.