Merton, South Dakota

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Fordham Township. It lies in ZIP code area 57258. The Survey maps it on the Raymond SE quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Merton 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 Raymond SE quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Watertown quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

6 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Merton (historical) between 2003 and 2008, burning about 693 acres in total. 4 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
Natural	4
Debris and open burning	1
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
27 July 2003	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
17 July 2005	Natural	2.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
16 July 2006	Natural	240 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
16 July 2006	Natural	400 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
16 July 2006	Natural	30 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
19 April 2008	Debris and open burning	20 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
Keefton (historical)	1.5 miles	8
Fordham Colony	2.6 miles	8
Carlton (historical)	3.5 miles	8
Carpenter	9.2 miles	8
Clark	10.4 miles	8
Raymond	11.0 miles	8
Pitrodie (historical)	13.2 miles	8
Silver Lake Colony	15.1 miles	8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1264204. 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.