BlockMiller Dale Colony, South Dakota
7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Rockdale Township. It lies in ZIP code area 57362. The Survey maps it on the Miller Dale Colony quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 7 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.
- 1953 USGS Huron quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1954 USGS Huron quadrangle1:250000
- 1973 USGS Miller Dale Colony quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Big Bend Dam quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
5 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Miller Dale Colony between 1999 and 2015, burning about 392 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 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | WARING |
| 30 August 2014 | Equipment and vehicle use | 20 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | BURYANEK 1 |
| 8 May 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 25 acres | Hand County | COLONY |
| 3 November 1999 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Miller Volunteer Fire Department | MILLERDALE COLONY |
| 18 November 2009 | Debris and open burning | 347 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | not named |
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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sweetland (historical) | 7.9 miles | 9 | |
| Ames | 9.1 miles | 7 | |
| Ree Heights | 9.4 miles | 9 | |
| Miller | 10.5 miles | 8 | |
| Saint Lawrence | 12.3 miles | 8 | |
| Danforth | 15.8 miles | 9 | |
| Vayland | 17.8 miles | 8 | |
| Florence (historical) | 21.2 miles | 9 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1256473. 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.