Newport Colony, South Dakota

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1979. It stands in Weston Township. It lies in ZIP code area 57432. The Survey maps it on the Amherst quadrangle. 114 people lived here at the 2020 count.

Newport Colony within Marshall County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 6 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 Milbank quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Amherst quadrangle1:24000
1958 USGS Milbank quadrangle1:250000
1979 USGS Sisseton quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

5 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Newport Colony between 2002 and 2015, burning about 23 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
Debris and open burning	3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2

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 August 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	SECOND BALE BURN
12 August 2015	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	BROKEN BALE BURNING
17 April 2002	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Langford Volunteer Fire Department	MIKE NELSON 2
15 April 2002	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Langford Volunteer Fire Department	MIKE NELSON
10 November 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	RAYDIN OLSON BALE FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marshall 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
Amherst	4.1 miles	6
Langford	7.6 miles	7
Spain	8.0 miles	6
West Britton	9.3 miles	7
Britton	12.4 miles	7
Westwood Colony	16.4 miles	7
Kidder	18.3 miles	7
Newark	18.8 miles	7

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 Newport Colony	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q108760248	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 2724467. 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.