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Napa Junction, South Dakota

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Utica Township. It lies in ZIP code area 57078. The Survey maps it on the Yankton quadrangle.

Napa Junction within Yankton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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

54 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 54 fires within 5 miles of Napa Junction between 1999 and 2020, burning about 2,023 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/undetermined29
Debris and open burning15
Equipment and vehicle use7
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Smoking1

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
10 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionUTICA OIL FIRE
5 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionMOOSE FIRE
28 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionTAOR OIL FIRE
27 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionHARRY'S FIRE
7 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionKOZY STATION
3 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionBINDER RIDGE
3 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined44 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionSTATE LAKE FIRE
3 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined50 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionKRALICEK FIRE 1

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Yankton County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Napa Junction: 8 past producers, 4 producers. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Western Portland Cement Co QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Bohlmann Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Old Allen PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Sparks PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Yankton 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
Utica3.6 miles9
Yankton5.7 miles10
Fairview Heights6.4 miles10
Northshore Development6.5 miles10
Oak Hills Addition6.6 miles10
Lakeport7.0 miles9
Mission Hill9.3 miles10
Valleyview9.4 miles10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1261128. 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.