Mayfield Colony, South Dakota

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Pleasant Township. It lies in ZIP code area 57278. The Survey maps it on the Vienna West quadrangle. 146 people lived here at the 2020 count.

Mayfield Colony within Clark County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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.

1953 USGS Watertown quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Watertown quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1973 USGS Vienna West quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Watertown quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

10 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Mayfield Colony between 2000 and 2016, burning about 185 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/undetermined	5
Debris and open burning	4
Equipment and vehicle use	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
1 May 2013	Debris and open burning	2.5 acres	Waubay National Wildlife Refuge	KRAMER
8 April 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	150 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	SOUTH SLOUGH
4 April 2000	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Bradley Volunteer Fire Department	DAVE FIWSTED
20 April 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	CARGILL BUNKER
2 April 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	TONY TREE FIRE
17 April 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	BRENDEN
13 April 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	BRENDAN
12 April 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	25 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clark 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
Vienna	4.1 miles	8
Willow Lake	5.6 miles	8
Naples	6.3 miles	8
Success (historical)	8.9 miles	8
Melham	11.1 miles	8
Collins Colony	11.9 miles	8
Silver Lake Colony	12.6 miles	8
Elrod	13.2 miles	8

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 Mayfield Colony	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q108685002	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 2726145. 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.