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Morningside, South Dakota

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Custer Township. It lies in ZIP code area 57350. The Survey maps it on the Huron quadrangle. 70 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,276 feet above sea level.

Morningside within Beadle County

On record in Morningside

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 2 records

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

Population over time

2 figures

Morningside fell from 105 to 70 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010105
202070-35 (-33%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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

45 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 45 fires within 5 miles of Morningside between 1999 and 2020, burning about 1,663 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 3 were 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/undetermined28
Debris and open burning6
Equipment and vehicle use3
Arson/incendiarism3
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Other causes1
Natural1

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
5 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionBAUMAN
3 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionTSSCHETTER
28 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined40 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionFANGER
10 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionNWPS
10 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionKUHNS
29 August 2020Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionHWY 14
15 August 1999Equipment and vehicle useunder an acrePiedmont Volunteer Fire DepartmentJANE DRIVE
14 August 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionUNAMED

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Beadle County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Morningside: 1 past producer. 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
Beadle County Highway PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Beadle 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
Huron1.4 miles10
James Valley Junction5.8 miles9
Sheffield6.9 miles9
Cavour8.0 miles10
Riverside Colony8.7 miles10
Yale11.5 miles11
Broadland12.2 miles9
Virgil13.5 miles9

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 MorningsideAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6024314The 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 1256539. 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.